Job Description

Impel Talent are excited to support one of our major partners that are pioneering to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to in-orbit servicing across all orbits. The business are looking for a Senior Mission Operations Preparation Engineer to shape technical solutions for our missions, develop operations concepts, tools, and prepare the team for mission execution.

As a enior Mission Operations Preparation Engineer you will work with the design and development engineers across functions and support tests conducted in the AIV and operational environments.

Our client are renowned on being a friendly, welcoming and diverse team and work on cutting edge missions in the ever evolving Space industry.

Responsibilities

• Act as an Operations Technical Lead for the mission under development.
• Develop Mission Operations Concept for a standalone mission or a satellite fleet.
• Support the Preparation Team Lead in Operations Development Plan and ensure follow through from Preliminary Design until end of mission.
• Develop Operability requirement and user stories with close coordination with the Flight Operations team and mission segments.
• Contribute to mission interface definitions (e.g. ICDs, data-budget, flight software application)
• Contribute to the Subsystem/Unit and Project Reviews.
• Act as product owner to the Operations User manual/handbook.
• Support the Operations Procedure development for the Mission OPS team.
• Support the satellite simulator development and mission database management.
• Develop test specification, plan and procedure to conduct System Validation Test.
• Support the preparation and participate in Mission Simulation Test or similar system tests.
• Identify and specify tools to support the mission execution (e.g. database tool, trending tool, dashboards, context management etc.).
• Act as a System-Operations teams interface during mission execution (LEOP, Commissioning, Routine, Disposal).
• Support to anomaly resolution of in-flight satellites may be expected, as part of a 24/7 on-call team (TBC).

Essential Skills

• Engineering, physics or an equivalent degree.
• Several years of demonstrable satellite industry experience in real time operations, spacecraft operations preparation through the complete life cycle. A candidate with a primarily system engineering background may also be considered.
• Knowledge of space standards (ECSS, CCSDS, ISO).
• Knowledge of mission control systems, SCOS-2000 or similar.
• Knowledge and hands on experience with system engineering processes.
• Experience developing and validating flight procedures.
• Experience of system testing and AIT processes.
• Software coding experience with Scripting languages, e.g. Python, tcl.
• Self-managed and proactive working style.

Desirable skills

• Familiarity with Operations Preparation tools such as MOIS or script-based tools.
• Familiarity with routine and critical real time satellite operations.
• Familiarity with configuration management.

If you would be interested in this position please send through your CV and contact eugene.mcintyre@impeltalent.com