Holt Executive are currently partnered with a global leader in Space and Satellite sustainability, a dynamic and rapidly growing technology innovator who are making hugely positive contributions to the growing problem of orbital space debris.
They require a Spacecraft Systems Engineer Team Lead – Space Sustainability to be responsible for line managing members of the team as well as taking the lead on project work. Therefore, you need to be a senior engineer with hands-on experience of working on spacecraft systems and be at a level where you can come in and start contributing to the projects straight away.
Responsibilities for the Spacecraft Systems Engineer Team Lead – Space Sustainability:
- Line management of team members. This includes helping resolve blockers to their work, prioritising their work, conducting appraisals and conducting probation reviews.
- Planning the technical work for the systems team members. Assigning tasks appropriately and effectively taking team member skillsets and abilities in to account
- Overall responsibility for the technical output of the people being managed
- Identify skillset and headcount/labour shortfalls in context of current and upcoming team workload
- Support recruitment by reviewing CVs and conducting interviews for positions in your team
- Create a plan to address the development needs of the existing team members
- Support engineering technical work performed by the team including:
- The development of spacecraft mission and system design including requirements derivation and CONOPS definition.
- Rapid feasibility studies into different scenarios and architectures
- Performing mission analysis and modelling of spacecraft missions as well as Trade-off and control platform systems budgets e.g. mass, power, data, fuel.
- Maintaining the configuration control of systems work and documentation
- Coordinate with other teams at sub-system and system level to define development and verification plans.
- Assist with bid work, providing technical solutions and documentation.
Skills required by the Spacecraft Systems Engineer Team Lead – Space Sustainability:
- Experience in leading work packages and small engineering projects.
- At least 5 years work experience as a systems engineer for a spacecraft mission
- Knowledge of the systems and project engineering lifecycle from requirements definition through to verification, including experience of leading or planning for project review gates in satellite engineering
- Experience in mission and systems architecture definition and CONOPS, especially understanding of both space and ground segment interaction.
- Diploma; bachelor or master’s degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, or another relevant discipline.
