AIV/AIT Manager (M/F)

Astroscale France is looking for an experienced AIV/AIT Manager to support the growth of our Toulouse office.
As AIV/AIT Manager you will take a leading role in the assembly, integration, verification (inspection & test) and launch of Astroscale France missions.

Main 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

About Astroscale 

Astroscale is the global leader in on-orbit servicing, dedicated to the secure and sustainable development of space. The company delivers a variety of innovative and scalable on-orbit servicing solutions, including life extension, refurbishment, upgrades, in-situ space situational awareness, end-of-life, and active debris removal. Since its first successful launch in March 2021, Astroscale has proven rendezvous and proximity operations technologies in orbit during the ELSA-d and ADRAS-J missions. Astroscale spacecraft have been selected for pioneering missions with JAXA, the U.S. Space Force, the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and Eutelsat. As more satellite operators adopt on-orbit servicing to routinely inspect, relocate, remove, and extend the life of spacecraft, the potential of a circular space economy — and a future of no waste in space — is being unlocked. Headquartered in Japan, Astroscale has a global presence with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Israel. Find out more about Astroscale at www.astroscale.com.