Telecom Satellite AIT/AIV and Industrialisation Manager

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Location ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands Description: Telecom Satellite AIT/AIV and Industrialisation Manager for the HummingSat Project in the Satellite Programmes Department within the Directorate of Connectivity and Secure Communications. HummingSat is an innovative and flexible product line of small geostationary satellites developed by a European and Canadian consortium in the framework of an ESA partnership project. The Hummingsat Project is part of ESA’s efforts to strengthen Europe’s space sector through the serialisation of satellite components such as payload items, for example antennas, platform equipment, launch systems, user terminals and ground technologies. You will be involved in the completion of HummingSat design and qualification of the new satellite product line and delivery of the initial commercial satellites to their customers. Reporting to the ESA HummingSat Project Manager, you will be responsible for the supervision of satellite assembly, integration and testing, preparation and implementation for HummingSat. This will include the preparation of the product line design-to-AIT concept, as well as the follow-up of the PFM1 and PFM2 manufacturing, integration,...