Spacecraft Operations Engineer

Salary: £45,600 – £54,000 per year

Are you an experienced and motivated Spacecraft Operations Engineer looking for an exciting new career challenge?

Would you like to join a pioneering and innovative space company that’s growing quickly worldwide, as part of their passionate and supportive engineering team?

As the Senior Spacecraft Operations Engineer you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and be able to shape solutions for missions.

You would also be responsible for:

* Acting as a technical lead for the Operations team

* Performing routine and critical real-time operations

* Participate in operations planning and scheduling processes;

* Developing, validating and maintaining nominal and contingency mission operations procedures (automated & manual)

* Preparing spacecraft user manuals and other operations documentation as required

* Contributing to the development of mission operations concepts;

* Providing operations expertise at system, subsystem, and instrument level; supporting design reviews, bid proposals and other activities as required

* Performing health and performance trend analysis at system, subsystem, and instrument level, producing reports as required

* Investigating spacecraft anomalies and participate in anomaly resolution process;

To be considered for the Senior Spacecraft Operations Engineer role you will need to:

* Be educated to degree level or equivalent in relevant engineering discipline

* Have several years of demonstrable satellite industry experience, preferably real-time operations as part of a flight control team operating a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mission through the complete life cycle.

* Have comprehensive knowledge of satellite subsystems, in particular AOCS/GNC or OBDH;

* Have experience of operation of satellite ground systems, in particular procedure development, monitor and control, mission planning, on-board software management, configuration management and simulator facilities;

* Have experience of satellite performance monitoring and reporting, including anomaly analysis and resolution in liaison with satellite industry, procedure change control and configuration management processes;

* Be able operate in a calm, orderly and disciplined manner during high stress situations.

* Be able to identify problems, perform root cause analysis and implement appropriate solutions in a timely manner.

* Be detail orientated and able to work using own initiative with limited supervision, as well as alongside other team members.

* Be fluent in English, both written and spoken

* Be prepared to travel outside the UK

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