Optical Payload Engineering Manager

Description:

Joining our Optical Instruments team, we are seeking an Optical Instrument Payload Engineering Manager to be responsible for the technical management of a large optical payload development at the heart of a future Earth Observation mission - TRUTHS. You will join our Mission Customisation team of Optical Systems and Performance Engineers, within the division of Optical Instruments in Airbus Defence and Space.

We are structured as a transnational team with sites in Toulouse, Munich, Friedrichshafen, and Portsmouth. Our portfolio covers all classes of optical instruments, from imaging spectrometers and passive meteorological sounders, to high resolution cameras, various types of LIDARs, and quantum optical sensors. These instruments are key payloads at the core of current and future space missions and systems, serving a broad variety of applications, such as climate monitoring, air quality tracking, meteorology, or fundamental science.

As the Optical Instrument Payload Engineering Manager, you will be in charge to lead the technical synthesis of the instrument development throughout the various project phases, from concept identification, over design, development, integration, and test, to conclude with final validation and in-orbit commissioning. You will manage the project engineering team of architects dealing with the required technical disciplines (detection, optics, thermo-mechanics, electrical, operations, software, and performances). Within the project organization, you will be a member of the payload first line team in direct report to the payload project manager, and the primary technical interface towards the customer.

How Will You Contribute To The Team…
 

• Represent the project as technical authority in interface with the satellite system engineering team, the customer, and other stakeholders within and outside Airbus.
• Perform the Payload Systems Engineering: coordinate the optical instrument technical development, manage the payload engineering team across all disciplines, drumbeat the overall engineering workflow. Maintain the Engineering Plan in consistence with other project plans and constraints (such as the Development Plan, Verification Plan, and the like).
• Ensure appropriate partitioning of the technical requirements, management of instrument performances, and execution of verification to achieve product validation for final customer acceptance.
• In close interaction with the Payload Industrial Manager, assess the technical maturity of the identified solution, and implement a technology development plan securing technology readiness in consistence with respective project milestones.
• Manage the cost and schedule, as well as technical risks and opportunities.