AIV/AIT Manager

Astroscale France is looking for an experienced AIV/AIT Manager to support the growth of our Toulouse office.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of Spacecraft/Mission level Assembly, Integration, and Verification/Test (AIV/AIT) activities.
• AIV/AIT test set-up design, development, and commissioning.
• Create and maintain system/satellite AIV/AIT procedures, plans, workflows, and schedules in accordance with technical and programmatic requirements.
• Contribute to bid related activities, including generation of (and subsequent delivery against) AIV/AIT related cost and schedule budgets.
• Contribute to overall industrial strategy including facilities creation and management.

Wider Responsibilities

• Provide experienced AIV/AIT related guidance, training and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Represent AIV/AIT team in internal and external meetings with suppliers and customers.
• Represent AIV/AIT in internal project meetings, management meetings, reviews, and technical discussions.
• Co‑ordinate and manage AIV/AIT activities between the Astroscale group of companies when the situation arises.
• Maintain costs and budget traceability.

Expected Results

• Provide creative and cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
• Deliver work to the expected quality standard within agreed timeframes.
• Demonstrate leadership, accountability, and customer focused mindset.

Essential Skills

• Master, MSc or higher education qualifications within mechanical/electrical/science fields.
• 10+ years of experience delivering spacecraft or mission level AIV/AIT activities across a range of mission types.
• Thorough knowledge and experience of spacecraft/mission AIV/AIT process, ideally with an established delivery record across several manufacturers.
• Understanding of spacecraft systems, interfacing and operations.
• Deep technical knowledge/understanding of AIV/AIT planning, processes, GSE (mechanical & electrical) development, set‑up and operation, and verification activities of Mechanical AIT activities (including subsystem, system, and environmental level testing).
• Proactive and self-managing, whilst contributing collaboratively within a close‑knit team.
• Fluent in French and English.
• Be eligible and registered to work within Europe.
• Be eligible and gain security clearance in France.

Desirable Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ideally, experience interacting with international teams.
• Design skills and knowledge for development of test infrastructure (mechanical and/or electrical).
• Experience with test and development of mechanisms, installation of spacecraft MLI and harness.
• Well organized, flexible working approach, ability to adapt to change.
• Knowledge of, and interest in, active space debris removal and space debris removal missions.
• Understanding of both traditional and ‘new space’ mission approaches.
• Awareness of ECSS standards in system engineering, testing and verification.
• Experience with scripting languages and automated testing tools.
• Knowledge of planning and execution of environmental test campaigns (including Thermal, Mechanical and EMC verification campaigns).
• Willing to work with innovative technologies.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates behaviours in line with Astroscale values (mission and people focused, transparent, innovative and pioneering, diverse and customer focused).
• Proactive, able to build working relationships, mentoring & knowledge sharing.

Location

Astroscale France (Toulouse), with some hybrid working.