D-Orbit Senior Space Systems Engineer - Project Technical Leader Send

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D-Orbit is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer to become part of the Project Technical Leadership (PLE) team. As a PLE, you will be accountable of all the technical project deliverables, technical management and team leadership. You will be part of the Engineering team, composed of multiple disciplines (AOCS, EE, mechanical, propulsion, thermal, software, etc.), and will lead them to achieve the project objectives including design and development, procurement coordination and assembly-integration-testing of flight-qualified spacecrafts, such as the ION Satellite Carrier Vehicle, and the design of new advanced missions. Your ultimate objective as a systems engineer is to ensure your systems, the spacecraft, will fly safely to orbit, deliver the services required by mission objectives and eventually successfully accomplish its disposal.

Main Duties will consist of:

• Single accountable of the technical project responsibilities, objectives, milestones and deliverables.
• Coordinate other project team engineers, following and consolidating the end-to-end design and development cycle of the systems platforms, starting the requirements capture and consolidating requirements as development progresses, trade-off analysis, systems architecture and design definition, definition of the verification and test campaign, test plan and procedures, supervising execution of the tests on first prototypes and final requirements compliance assessment.
• Liaise with the Program Manager to contribute with technical planning and management task.
• Coordinate with the Procurement team to support in the procurement process of test and flight parts.
• Coordinate with the manufacturing team and the AIV team for the definition of the test plan, procedures, setup and execution, monitor AIV progresses and maintain the requirement compliance matrix updated accordingly.
• Interface with the Flight Operations team to support the definition of the detailed ConOps, mission timeline, operations plan definition and procedures, and provide active support during the first flight operations.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Technical responsible for the overall spacecraft or mission.
• Actively contribute and monitor the development of systems architecture and subsystems design.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of specialists working on the systems and s/s design.
• Systems and subsystems budgeting.
• Requirements capturing & management from Stakeholder to equipment level.
• AIV plan definition and execution with the support of the AIV team.
• Support the systems test plan, procedures, and setup definition.
• Authoring of Technical documents.

Professional Experience & Required Technical Skills:

• We are interested in speaking to people with a minimum of five years of experience working in the field of Spacecraft design and development.
• Experience in Institutional projects with ESA, ASI or other agencies.
• Knowledge of ECSS/NASA standards.
• Strong knowledge of Space Systems Engineering and Space Systems Architectures.
• Good knowledge of all spacecraft subsystems, with at least one in depth.
• Experience in the definition of systems budgets and trade-off analyses.
• Experience in satellite verification and validation approaches.
• Experience in planning and management task.
• Experience in procurement processes.
• Experience in requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS or Jama.
• Basic knowledge of software development and configuration management, e.g. GIT or Bitbucket.
• MS office and MS Project

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience in Mission Analysis and usage of dedicated tools (e.g., STK, GMAT)
• Working experience in space transportation and servicing applications.
• Experience in carrying out tests in relevant space contexts (e.g., functional testing on EM, environmental test campaigns).
• Experience in launch campaign activities and interfacing with launch providers.
• Programming skills.
• Experience in MBSE.

Education:

• University degree preferably in the fields of Aerospace/Space Engineering.

Language:

This role requires professional proficiency in English.

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We actively strive to build a culture where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, and where all voices are heard and valued. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels safe, supported, and empowered to share their ideas, and where everyone is given equal opportunities to grow and excel. We believe that our differences make us stronger, and we will continue to work diligently to create an inclusive culture at D-Orbit that reflects this belief.