Space Manufacturing Lead

2 weeks ago


Aylesbury, United Kingdom Satellite Applications Catapult Full time

Employment Type Full time- Location Hybrid - Aylesbury, UK Westcott (3-4 days on site)- Salary £50,000 - £60,000 (GBP)- Seniority Mid-level- **Closing**: 5:30pm, 6th Feb 2024 GMT

**Perks and benefits**:

- Flexible working hours- Work from home option- Healthcare- Life Insurance- Wellness programs- Employee Assistance Programme- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave- Extra holiday- Sabbatical Opportunities- Professional development- Paid volunteer days- Salary sacrifice- Team social events- Extracurricular clubs- Cycle to work scheme**Job Description**:
**Space Manufacturing Lead**

**The Opportunity**:
The Space Manufacturing Lead role sits within the In-Orbit Servicing & Manufacturing Team (IOSM), and provides the focus, definition, and development of manufacturing capabilities to support the UK’s ambitions within the space sector.

Focusing on the development of technologies to support IOSM, the role will investigate new techniques to facilitate the creation of manufacturing processes on Earth to use in space. Working alongside other thematic leads in the IOSM team, including robotics, operations, and spacecraft development, you will lead the development of additive manufacturing of rocket engines, in-space servicing and manufacturing approaches and other related engineering capabilities.

You will bring extensive knowledge from the space and/or advanced manufacturing industry, matched with a deep understanding of manufacturing, production and engineering methodologies, and the ability to lead, communicate and enable this new industrial revolution.

**Ways of Working**: We are a learning organisation where our ways of working are underpinned by coaching and feedback, fostering adult to adult conversations. Innovation is at the heart of everything that we do, therefore being highly adaptive and agile with a GROWTH mindset will ensure your success at the Catapult. We expect our people to be Pioneering, Agile, Collaborative and Entrepreneurial, working at PACE.

**Role responsibilities**:

- Leading the space manufacturing team.
- Manage, operate, and enable advanced manufacturing capabilities at Westcott and other locations.
- Line management of other space manufacturing team members, including training and personal development requirement.
- Promote a safety conscious work environment and ensure that both health and safety requirements are met and achieved.
- Primary point of engagement with other Catapult’s regarding manufacturing.
- Support the Head of IOSM and other thematic team leads as required within space manufacturing and other related areas.
- Engagement with local, national and internationals stakeholders from RTOs, industry, and academia.
- Work with other teams at the Catapult contributing to space projects in the technical aspects related with materials and manufacturing.
- Maximize utilization and revenue of Catapult’s manufacturing equipment.
- Ensure equipment remains aligned to industrial roadmaps to position the Catapult as thought leaders.
- Creating new opportunities and innovating where opportunity presents

**Skills, Qualifications & Experience required**:

- In depth understanding of the full space ecosystem.
- Extensive engagement with a broad variety of organizations in the space ecosystem, industry, academia, SMEs, and RTOs.
- Familiarity with a wider range of Advanced manufacturing including but not limited to additive manufacturing (Laser powder bed, fused deposition modelling, direct energy deposition and cross polymerisation), metrology and other related QA process and familiarity of the handling of hazardous materials.
- Significant experience in the set-up of complex manufacturing equipment and the associated services, the development of cost models and safety operational framework.
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and management, including arts of diplomacy including dealing with difficult situations or clients.
- A passion for new technologies and innovation, underpinned by curiosity to the betterment of humanity.
- Preferably international experience with other space and non-space sectors
- Demonstratable expertise in additive manufacturing experience by providing training or similar certificates.
- Preferably experience with start-ups, demonstrated through direct stakeholder engagement with emerging companies or mentoring of new organisations.
- The role will require a good understanding of system engineering, manufacturing processes, testing and assembly approaches.
- Ability to lead a team, manage expectations and solve complex problems whilst pressure.
- Full driving licence.
- Located within 1 hour of Westcott. Due to the nature of the role - mostly in person work typically in office/labs 3-4 days per week with some work ad hoc out of hours including weekends.

**Success factors**:

- What success will look like in 3 months’ time:_
- Operation of existing equipment safely and building established pipeline of activities to support the eme



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