Contract Technician - Alton, Hampshire, United Kingdom - In-Space Missions Limited

Description

Salary £25-£30 per hour 6 Month contract based in Alton, Hampshire

As the person responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering spacecraft electrical and RF harness, you will perform the build and test of the various spacecraft harnesses and help co-ordinate the manufacturing, procurement, and control activities.

You will be an enthusiastic, self-starting individual who is willing to take responsibility for driving good practices, process adherence and improvement across a range of projects and activities, interfacing with colleagues within In-Space Missions.

Working to electrical drawings, wiring schedules and BOMs (Bills of Material)
Clean room disciplines and procedures, including ESD (Electrostatic Discharge)
The use of common chemical adhesives, epoxies and glues and the weighing, mixing and traceability
Your Qualities will include
Good general computing skills and specifically familiar with using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities

Spacecraft Harness build and test (Including ground test cables)

Review and alignment of equipment electrical interface specifications
Cross checking power, signal, and data bus pin-to-pin alignment during build
Implement harness design to meet all electrical, grounding, and environmental requirements
Carry out appropriate configuration and change management processes
General AIT (Assembly, Integration, and Test) and EVT (Environmental Verification Testing) support to the spacecraft missions

BAE Systems acquired In-Space Missions in 2021, and the two organisations have teamed to advance our space ambition by bringing all our space activities under a new, integrated business unit and leadership team which is focused on designing, building and operating world-class space missions for global customers.

The new Space business unit now comprises approximately 180 staff located across 3 sites at Alton, Guildford and Great Baddow.

BAE Systems is committed to investing in Space to deliver new-space small satellite systems and space data products combined with the security and resilience of BAE Systems expertise in telemetry tracking and command processors, waveforms, electronics, antennas and digital signal processing and analytics.

We have a close-knit and supportive team, with diversity and inclusion being a key to our success.

We embrace Hybrid Working so wherever possible, we offer flexible working arrangements to allow us to balance our work and personal life more effectively.

We want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible so if you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.