AIT Engineer

• Job Location: England
• Type: Permanent
• Posted: 18/11/2019

You will oversee all of the associated activities, including project management, manufacturing processes and mechanical & thermal engineering requirements. You will be in charge of the technical content, schedule and costs of the tasks in the AIT department. You will be responsible for the AIT facility launch campaign preparation and performance and play a crucial role in the development in the next generation of space platforms.



Key Purpose:



- Complete Assembly, Integration and Test activities on Satellites
- Work in accordance with AIT procedures and processes
- Assembly of the Satellite and sub-assemblies
- Validation of the tooling
- Manufacturing\routing harnesses in accordance with ECSS standards
- Perform hazardous and critical operations, such as bonding, crimping of flight H/W etc in line with the correct standards
- Assemble Multi-Layer Insulation
- Environmental tests preparation and satellite instrumentation in accordance with the instrumentation plan.
- Satellite Alignment measurements
- Solar array operations
- Tank Operations
- Thermal test
- Vibration test
- Solar array deployment test
- Mass properties
- EMC tests
- Acoustic tests
- Propulsion leak tests
- Records test configurations and databases and ensures the traceability of the operations that have been conducted are correctly performed
- Reviews test results to ensure the quality of the tests carried are acceptable and provide the corresponding test reports as applicable
- Satellite installation in the transport container

Skills & Experience



- Significant skills and experiences related to the duties and responsibilities listed above.
- Build and test experience on Satellites
- Ideally the candidate would have completed activities on a number of different satellites
- Training to ECSS standards
- Knowledge of other European languages are advantageous

Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.