AIT Lead Engineer - Stevenage, United Kingdom - Guidant Global

    Guidant Global
    Guidant Global Stevenage, United Kingdom

    Found in: SonicJobs Direct Apply UK - 1 week ago

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    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 practise within team and between disciplines.
    * Leading the AIT mechanical team to the success of the mission.

    Responsibilities
    * Responsible for the Mechanical Satellite element and lead the mechanical team on an ENS project through Phases 'A', 'B', 'C/D' and 'E'
    * Leading a team of AIT engineers on the specific project
    * Planning the mechanical team's activities on a weekly basis (including operations team) and implementing this plan.
    * Supporting the use of 3Dx Delmia on the specific project
    * Produce specs from test requirements, write test plans, DDV, plans, AIT plans, test procedures and test reports.
    * Control of all project MGSE, flight & support equipment
    * Produce MGSE requirement specs from test requirements, operating and maintaining MGSE.
    * Alignment - producing test procedures and operating and maintaining optical alignment equipment.
    * Designing test equipment, overseeing its manufacture, and commissioning
    * Mechanical handling or spacecraft, instruments, payloads, solar arrays, antennas etc
    * Prepare and carry out environmental tests (Vibration, Acoustic, Mass properties, Thermal) at unit, subsystem, instrument, and spacecraft level.
    * Install and validate test instrumentation.
    * Support propulsion testing
    * Handling and installation of thermal hardware
    * 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.
    * Pyrotechnic handling, installation, and safety
    * Plan and control workload of the AIT team consisting of engineers and technicians.
    * Be able to travel overseas to work for short periods (typically 2-3months, could be 6-7 months on occasions)
    * Be able to integrate quickly and easily into an AIT team.
    * Highly motivated and possess good problem-solving skills.

    Skill Set
    Essential
    * Relevant engineering experience.
    * Appreciation of satellite integration processes and project phases
    * Use of SAP or other ERP System
    * Understanding of build documentation and the need for it
    * Driving build quality through review of processes and implementation of improvements
    * Managing a team during day-to-day activities ensuring work is completed on time and the correct standard
    * Controlling and delivery of projects to budget and schedule
    * Face-to-face dealings with customers and suppliers
    * Worked in volatile, high pressure environments to resolve technical and personnel conflicts
    * Spacecraft Mechanical testing on prime projects is essential
    * Leading other team members
    * Production of MGSE specs and operation of MGSE and flight HW
    * Production of high quality documentation (test specs, test plans, test procedures, AIT Plans, DDV plans)

    Desirable
    * Producing test procedures and operating and maintaining optical alignment equipment
    * Launch campaign experience

    Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.