AIT Harness Engineer - Contractor

Responsible For

Delivery of fully manufactured flight harness and test cables to AIT. Supporting off site and overseas activities.

Key Purpose of Job

· Working as part of spacecraft AIT team, manufacture the harness required for various STTL spacecraft developments

Key Tasks

• All build activities required for the spacecraft harness manufacture
• Implementing the harness design during the manufacture process to meet all electrical, grounding and environmental requirements
• Liaison with the spacecraft systems team to resolve issues and anomalies
• Progress reporting
• Spacecraft test cable manufacture
• Assist with harness routing discussions
• General AIT and EVT support with possible overseas travel
• Support training programmes for both internal and customer engineers

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications

· A minimum of HNC/HND in engineering or science discipline or demonstrable hands-on experience in the space industry

· ESA Harness Certification:

ECSS-Q-ST-70-26 (Crimping of high reliability electrical connections)

ECSS-Q-ST-70-18 (Preparation, assembly and mounting of RF coaxial cables).

· Requirements of this post are to hold, or have held in the last 5 years, an EU based personal Security clearance and to be a citizen of one of the member states of the European Union or the Schengen association countries

Experience

· All aspects of harness and cable manufacture

· Working with spacecraft flight hardware during design, development and implementation phases.

· Working with verification / validation of requirements

· Good, all round electrical, mechanical & electronics background

· Experience of working in cleanroom conditions preferred

Knowledge & Skills

· Execute work and inspection regime to recognised standards

· Proven, practical, hands–on ability for both flight build and ground and development testing tasks

· Good team working skills, together with the ability to interface with others at all levels.

· Strong attention to detail is essential

· Good communication skills are required

· Must be prepared to work irregular hours and weekends during peak workload periods.

· Ability to fly out to support overseas work is required

· A flexible and pragmatic attitude to work, planning and interactions with others is required.

· Full, clean driving licence preferred