Ait Operations Lead

2 weeks ago

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Thales Full time

Location:
Oxford, United Kingdom


A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures.

Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer.

We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.

Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Primary Purpose of the Role:


Reporting to the AIT Operations Manager and under the responsibility of the AIT Manager of the project, the role will lead and oversee the execution of the AIT operations on the spacecraft and will be responsible for the integrity of it.


The main functions of the role are:

  • Coordinates the activities performed on the specimen under test on a daily basis maintaining a detailed schedule of each AIT phase
  • Prepares and chairs AIT Integration/Test Readiness Reviews, Key Points and Post Integration/Test reviews.
  • Deputizes AIT Manager (and vice versa) when he/she is not available to ensure permanent continuity in AIT management.
  • Participates (occasionally) to the engineering phase of the project with the design team to ensure the validity & applicability of the solutions envisaged
  • Contributes to the definition of verification strategies at the System level
  • Participates to the development of System tests
  • Contributes to the definition and completion of System testing requirements
  • Leads the risk analysis of specific operations.
  • Checks the GSE requirements
  • Writes the leading procedures and subco operations followup procedures
  • Prepares and chairs AIT daily meeting involving AIT and engineering skills leaders and forwards instructions to the shop floor
  • Authorizes operations on the specimen under test and control their progress
  • Maintains the detailed schedule on a daily basis.
  • Systematically provides Lessons Learnt at the end of each AIT phase by proposing recommendations and improvements
  • Ensures the technical coordination of all AIT operations for a given AIT phase
  • Gives the "goahead" in case of "critical steps" in some procedures.
  • Ensures the validation of "redlines" on procedures asrun before these steps are executed
  • Performs a first analysis of the NCR raised in AIT as inputs to NRBs
  • Work Package Management as required

Key Responsibilities:


The role will lead and oversee the AIT operations on the spacecraft and will be responsible for the integrity of it.

The role shall ensure that all operations are in line with company and ECSS standards

Internal Relationships:

  • AIT Manager for overall supervision
  • Head of Engineering for project status and escalation
  • Project Manager for definition of work packages and detailed project oversight of task delivery
  • Product Assurance Manager for support Assembly Integration and test activity

External Relationships:

  • Customer/ESA

Technical Skill Requirements:

  • Mechanical assembly
  • Electrical integration and functional testing
  • Nonconformance reporting
  • Procedure writing
  • Test report writing

Soft Skill Requirements:

  • Decision taking,
  • Effective communication,
  • Leadership,
  • Risk analysis,
  • Planning and Scheduling
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