Optical Payload Engineering Manager

Job Description:

Security Clearance: You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check)

Travel Required: Occasional travel within the UK & Overseas

Location: This role is based in Portsmouth with hybrid working available

Type: Full time, experienced hire and open to STEM Returners

First of all, what’s in it for you…

• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more

• Work / Life Balance:  37 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL, option to buy/sell holiday  

• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000&43; E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities

• Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime Pilates.

• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving

• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ&43;, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)

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About the Role...

Joining our Optical Instruments team, we are seeking an Optical Instrument Payload Engineering Manager to be responsible for the technical management of a large optical payload development at the heart of a future Earth Observation mission - TRUTHS. You will join our Mission Customisation team of Optical Systems and Performance Engineers, within the division of Optical Instruments in Airbus Defence and Space.

We are structured as a transnational team with sites in Toulouse, Munich, Friedrichshafen, and Portsmouth. Our portfolio covers all classes of optical instruments, from imaging spectrometers and passive meteorological sounders, to high resolution cameras, various types of LIDARs, and quantum optical sensors. These instruments are key payloads at the core of current and future space missions and systems, serving a broad variety of applications, such as climate monitoring, air quality tracking, meteorology, or fundamental science.

As the Optical Instrument Payload Engineering Manager, you will be in charge to lead the technical synthesis of the instrument development throughout the various project phases, from concept identification, over design, development, integration, and test, to conclude with final validation and in-orbit commissioning. You will manage the project engineering team of architects dealing with the required technical disciplines (detection, optics, thermo-mechanics, electrical, operations, software, and performances). Within the project organization, you will be a member of the payload first line team in direct report to the payload project manager, and the primary technical interface towards the customer.

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How will you contribute to the team…

• Represent the project as technical authority in interface with the satellite system engineering team, the customer, and other stakeholders within and outside Airbus.

• Perform the Payload Systems Engineering: coordinate the optical instrument technical development, manage the payload engineering team across all disciplines, drumbeat the overall engineering workflow. Maintain the Engineering Plan in consistence with other project plans and constraints (such as the Development Plan, Verification Plan, and the like).

• Ensure appropriate partitioning of the technical requirements, management of instrument performances, and execution of verification to achieve product validation for final customer acceptance.

• In close interaction with the Payload Industrial Manager, assess the technical maturity of the identified solution, and implement a technology development plan securing technology readiness in consistence with respective project milestones.

• Manage the cost and schedule, as well as technical risks and opportunities.

About you...

You will be working in a dynamic, multi-national environment involving interactions with a wide range of stakeholders within and outside Airbus, including space agencies, industrial partners, scientific communities etc. This will require excellent communication skills, high flexibility and agility, as well as a structured working style. The following assets and skills would be of particular relevance for this position:

• Professional experience in a space engineering environment

• Leadership skills with appropriate communication behavior to coordinate medium to large engineering teams.

• Systems Engineering competence, i.e. proven ability to master complex technical developments.

• Strong cross-disciplinary understanding of instrument engineering subjects, such as optics, opto-mechanics, detection, thermal, electrical, and software aspects in the context of optical instruments.

• Good knowledge of methods and tools for optical metrology and experimental verification. Hands-on experience in development, setup, and operation of optical systems.

How can we support you…

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request.

Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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