Role Overview
* To promote and drive AIT standards ensuring engineering concepts are delivered to the shop floor in a controlled manner.
* Ensure quality and process robustness through promotion of best practice within team and between disciplines.
* Leading the AIT mechanical team to the success of the mission.
Responsibilities
1. Responsible for the Mechanical Satellite element and lead the mechanical team on an ENS project through Phases 'A', 'B', 'C/D' and 'E'
2. Leading a team of AIT engineers on the specific project
3. Planning the mechanical team's activities on a weekly basis (including operations team) and implementing this plan.
4. Supporting the use of 3Dx Delmia on the specific project
5. Produce specs from test requirements, write test plans, DDV, plans, AIT plans, test procedures and test reports.
6. Control of all project MGSE, flight & support equipment
7. Produce MGSE requirement specs from test requirements, operating and maintaining MGSE.
8. Alignment - producing test procedures and operating and maintaining optical alignment equipment.
9. Designing test equipment, overseeing its manufacture, and commissioning
10. Mechanical handling or spacecraft, instruments, payloads, solar arrays, antennas etc
11. Prepare and carry out environmental tests (Vibration, Acoustic, Mass properties, Thermal) at unit, subsystem, instrument, and spacecraft level.
12. Install and validate test instrumentation.
13. Support propulsion testing
14. Handling and installation of thermal hardware
15. Mechanical integration and testing of electronic units, subsystems and instruments, mechanisms, antennas, solar arrays, mechanical sub-systems, instruments, payloads and spacecraft and control the documentation associated with performing these tasks.
16. Pyrotechnic handling, installation, and safety
17. Plan and control workload of the AIT team consisting of engineers and technicians.
18. Be able to travel overseas to work for short periods (typically 2-3 months, could be 6-7 months on occasions)
19. Be able to integrate quickly and easily into an AIT team.
20. Highly motivated and possess good problem-solving skills.
Skill Set
Essential
1. Relevant engineering experience.
2. Appreciation of satellite integration processes and project phases
3. Use of SAP or other ERP System
4. Understanding of build documentation and the need for it
5. Driving build quality through review of processes and implementation of improvements
6. Managing a team during day-to-day activities ensuring work is completed on time and the correct standard
7. Controlling and delivery of projects to budget and schedule
8. Face-to-face dealings with customers and suppliers
9. Worked in volatile, high pressure environments to resolve technical and personnel conflicts
10. Spacecraft Mechanical testing on prime projects is essential
11. Leading other team members
12. Production of MGSE specs and operation of MGSE and flight HW
13. Production of high quality documentation (test specs, test plans, test procedures, AIT Plans, DDV plans)
Desirable
1. Producing test procedures and operating and maintaining optical alignment equipment
2. Launch campaign experience
Please note: current SC clearance preferred, however, SC clearable candidates will be considered.
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