Booster Reusability Engineer

Parque Industrial de Elche (Poligono Industrial), Spain

Mission 

Responsible for achieving rapid reusability while ensuring vehicle reliability.

Responsibilities 

• Lead operations in the field to safe and process the booster 
• Develop procedures, test plans, and concept of operations for booster processing 
• Support booster recovery operations which includes contracting vendors, creating cost estimates, developing and authoring field procedures, managing a team, executing offshore and onshore operations, and leading recovery operations in the field 
• Drive more efficient operations to improve booster recovery cost and hardware health for improved refurbishment timelines 
• Support refurbishment operations, process development, qualification or testing of flight proven boosters and payload fairing vehicles, through technical guidance, procedure writing, and hands-on support 
• Support responsible engineers with reuse qualification or prototype efforts through planning or test execution 
• Design, build, and test new ground support equipment in support of improving recovery operations 
• Ensure systems are in place to guarantee hardware readiness – including, but not limited to, preventative maintenance, critical spares, and hardware testing 
• Remain synchronized with all Recovery Operations to ensure commonality in both hardware and operations where applicable

 

Required Knowlege 

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering 
• >1 years of experience 
• Experience managing engineering projects across multiple departments 
• Hands-on hardware experience performing fabrication, assembly or testing. 
• Knowledge in space launchers 
• Knowledge of recovery systems 
• Knowledge in integration 

Required Competencies 

• A strong level of English 
• Multitasking 
• Teamwork 
• Problem Solving 
• Workload capacity 
• Autonomy 

 Others 

• Location: Elche 
• Working hours: full time 
• Travels: no required