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Astroscale is seeking to employ a talented and and motivated Project Manager at our facility based in Harwell, UK.

This is a unique opportunity to join our dynamic and rapidly growing company, seeking to make a positive contribution to the growing problem of orbital debris that endangers mankind’s continued use of space as an asset.

This role will allow you to shape solutions for our missions and build links with our colleagues in both the US and Japan.

We are a fast-growing company where you can expand on your experience and develop your skills further to enable your team to deliver amazing results. Your role will help us make a difference every day by ensuring our projects are managed effectively and delivered on time to to drive forward our missions and help to make space safer and more sustainable for future generations.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the design and delivery of space missions (or aspects thereof) on complex engineering missions. To be achieved via the coordination of matrixed project / engineering teams.
• Planning and delivery of project review gates, including management and production of associated deliverables.
• Define and maintain an appropriate balance of quality, cost, schedule, and risk, whilst delivering projects and their associated deliverables.
• Generate project inputs to mission concept studies, technical or non-technical packages of work, and bid work, in support of the wider business.
• Interface with customers, suppliers, and programme partners as necessary in support of project, bids, or similar activities.
• Report and be internally accountable to business and senior management.
  

Essential Skills

• 3+ years’ experience in project or programme management, ideally in the space or aerospace industries. Track record of successful mission delivery.
• Complete ‘technical’ project management skillset (delivery, schedule, financial, risk management, etc)
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively with a close-knit team of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Production and maintenance of project management deliverables for internal and external stakeholders. Includes contractual deliverables, schedules, reports, risk registers, project and financial reporting, etc.
• Experience of planning and completing project review gates (Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc).
• Experience of working closely with Systems Engineering teams, including a high-level understanding of Systems activities such as architecture definition, CONOPS, requirements derivation, etc.
• Experience working with spacecraft sub-system functional teams such as Guidance Navigation Control (GNC / AOCS), Command & Data Handing (C&DH / OBDH), Propulsion, Software, Ground Segment, Operations, etc.
• Awareness of Assembly Integration and Verification processes (integration, subsystem / integrated / environmental testing etc).
• Experience of supplier management or satellite part procurement.
• Practical understanding and application of lean engineering methodologies.
• High personal standards & desire for honesty, openness, and integrity.
• An understanding of people, coupled with the desire to lead by example and bring a team with you to achieve mutual success. A willingness to put a team’s requirements before one’s own when appropriate, balanced with the ability to hold difficult conversations when necessary.
• A basic knowledge of debris removal, end-of-life, in-orbit maintenance or servicing.
• A can-do approach, and drive to work together to achieve collective success within a project management & company team framework.
  

Desired Skills

• Full mission lifecycle experience from requirements definition to verification, delivery, commissioning and operations.
• Master’s degree in a technical field.
• Technical career / background, ideally within space or aerospace sectors.
• An understanding of engineering process, with knowledge of large satellite company or agency design principles e.g. ECSS. (alongside aforementioned familiarity of lean or agile project implementation methodologies).
• The ability to understand, influence, and negotiate, coupled with the desire to seek mutually beneficial outcomes in forum environments.
• Experience working with challenging customers, partners, or suppliers.
• Evidence of successfully ‘unblocking’ and closing out behind schedule / cost overrun projects (or aspects thereof).
• Experience of bid support, company financial accounting, quality / product assurance (QA / PA), or business development work.
• Knowledge of the wider framework around debris removal including licensing, export, regulation, space law.
• Knowledge of relevant missions such as RemoveDebris, CleanSpace, e.DeOrbit, DEOS, ATV, ETS-7
• Useful to have a knowledge of Japanese, though not essential (the working language of Astroscale is English, however some familiarity of Japanese may be of occasional benefit).
• Experience successfully collaborating with personnel from different countries and cultures in a fast-paced technical working environment.
  

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to work with a highly talented, diverse & dynamic international team with cutting edge technology
• Flexible working around core hours in a friendly and supportive environment
• Hybrid working available (dependent on individual role requirements)
• 25 days holiday (increasing yearly up to a maximum of 28 days) + 8 days Bank Holiday
• Life insurance and long-term sick pay
• Private healthcare (taxable benefit)
  
• Relocation allowance
• Visa sponsorship for employees
• New state of the art office and cleanroom facility
• Regular social events
  

Location

Astroscale UK (Harwell), with potential for some travel to Astroscale Japan (Tokyo)

About Astroscale

We aim to deliver cutting edge technologies that will become part of routine commercial space operations by 2030.

Astroscale is the first private company with a vision 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. Founded in 2013, we are developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of in-orbit servicing missions, including End of Life services, Active Debris Removal, In-situ Space Situational Awareness and Life Extension Services, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate against the hazardous build-up of debris in space.

Note to recruitment agencies: Astroscale operates a preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency approaches. Please do not forward candidate CVs or details in response to this advert, or to any Astroscale employee.