Senior Satellite Operations Engineer

AAC Clyde Space

Glasgow, United Kingdom

About this role:

We are looking for an experienced, Satellite Operations Engineer to join our busy Engineering team, in a hybrid working role based in Glasgow (Scotland, UK) to support a diverse range of activities to deliver on our projects and missions.

This opportunity is ideal for someone looking for responsibility and development opportunities of a technical nature in a dynamic, fast paced working environment with exciting missions, challenging commissioning and able to engage with customers.  You will have proven experience from regulated industries with the desire to grow your knowledge and expertise while adding value to our current ways of working.  You will not be afraid of challenges and happy to get involved! 

Given the nature of the role, there is some on-call and out-of-hours working involved.

It is an exciting opportunity to be part of existing projects and missions where your work literally ends up in space! 

Key Responsibilities:

The purpose of the role is to lead commissioning phases for new missions as well as ensuring normal operations for existing missions in line with cost, quality, safety, and time parameters. The role also contributes towards design of mission-specific ground segments, preparing operation plans, as well developing/improving procedures & tools.

Deliver work tasks and assignments in accordance to required standards and compliance requirements
Application of functional and technical expertise to meet compliance requirements
Ownership of satellite operations work packages in accordance with standards and compliance requirements
Drive the first weeks of our satellites’ lives through planning, preparation, and execution of the commissioning phases
Analyse data and investigate in-orbit anomalies, solving problems both individually and through collaboration with other engineering disciplines
Ensure nominal operations of existing missions and help improve existing processes
Support the design of mission specific ground segment systems for service and data delivery
Develop documentation and processes in according to regulations and licence requirements

Skills required:

Relevant degree or equivalent work experience
Demonstrated industry experience in a similar environment
Basic understanding of satellites and the space industry
Proven ability to effectively identify and debug issues with existing or new software
Technical report and procedure writing to a high standard
Ability to work independently as well as to effectively collaborate within cross cultural teams
Ability to make technical decisions with a systems mindset
Quick thinking with the ability to remain calm under pressure, for example during live satellite communication passes
Attention to detail to ensure accurate work
Demonstrates ownership of problems and works towards finding solutions
Ability to organise self and prioritise workload of multiple projects in dynamic environment with tight deadlines
Customer focused with basic commercial understanding
Competent IT skills including Microsoft Software and familiarity with command line interfaces
Proficient in English, both verbally and written