Propulsion Systems Engineer

Job Family: 04 - R&D : SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & GENERAL STUDIES > 0405 - SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Travel Percentage

10-20% (Requirements for occasional travel to other TAS sites, suppliers and external locations as necessary, mainly in UK/Europe)

Role Reports To

Head of Discipline - Propulsion

Job Description

Due to the growth of our propulsion centre of excellence based at our Harwell site we need to make a number of new hires into this team. Drawing on your space propulsion systems experience (chemical or electrical) this is an excellent time to be joining this team. The position will be based at the TAS UK Harwell office.

Primary Purpose Of The Role

Reporting to the Propulsion Systems Engineering Manager the Systems Engineer will perform, but is not limited to, the following type of activities:

• Work package and Study Management ensuring engineering delivery.
• Provide regular reporting of technical progress to the project team and TAS management.
• Propulsion subsystem and propulsion equipment activities (EP and/or CP) during Phase A/B/C/D/E for recurring TAS satellite product line application programmes or developments.
• Be the primary technical point of contact responsible and lead for the propulsion subsystem, in both MAIT and Architecture, including procured propulsion equipment’s on a project, interfacing with the customer technical teams, PMO, AIT team, procurement and other subsystem experts (such as Mech/Thermal, AOCS).
• Interpret mission/customer specific and generic system level requirements and establishing the baseline technical requirements document (TRD) for the propulsion subsystem.
• Provide technical support to system level propulsion trade-offs for optimization of the satellite and mission design.
• Support the preparation of subsystem design justification documentation for major design reviews throughout the project life cycle.
• Present subsystem design justification in major design reviews throughout the project life cycle in cooperation with the Program Management Office and other subsystems.
• Review and consolidate the technical documentation for the system through the different project life cycle milestones & reviews (EQSR, PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR, QR, etc).
• Establishing integration and test plans and requirements for the subsystem.
• Development of new analysis tools in specialised fluidic software (e.g. EcosimPro), and also in Excel, MATLAB, and Python.
• Performance analyses in support of non-conformance review board.
• Prepare/update subsystem analysis reports through the different project life cycle milestones & reviews (PDR, CDR, QR etc).
• Demonstrates systems engineering knowledge – across the “Systems V” – to achieve critical project outcomes to time, cost and quality.
• Understanding requirement management – traceability, IVVQ, etc.
• Provide technical input to future propulsion developments and contribute to continuous improvement of products, systems and processes.
• Participate/Oversee the propulsion module manufacture and AIT activities.
• Manage any anomalies or non-conformances occurring throughout the project life cycle at equipment or subsystem level with support from product engineers and technical experts and present technical status/progress in NCRs with the customer.