Vacancy at Space Solar
Director of Product Development
Hybrid - Harwell office and home
Vacancy listed
11/12/2023
Application deadline
09/01/2024
Details
About us:
Space Solar’s mission is to create an era-defining new solar energy source from space.
In 12 years, Space Solar will deliver an affordable, scalable, and fully renewable new baseload energy technology. We will accelerate the transition to net zero and provide energy security for partner nations, as global demand grows.
Ultimately, we will help create a safer and more secure world where clean energy is available to everyone, for the benefit of all life on earth.
This ground-breaking programme will develop and commercialise space based solar power. Space Solar must become the world’s most knowledgeable entity in space-based solar power technologies, system design, delivery, deployment, and utilisation.
The project will benefit humanity, supplying clean power whilst diminishing reliance on fossil fuels, thereby reducing carbon emissions. It will deliver a huge innovation footprint across sectors from energy to space to robotics. Therefore, the successful candidate must hold sustainability and innovation as key personal values if they are to have credibility both internally and externally.
About the Role:
In 12 years, Space Solar will deliver an affordable, scalable, and fully renewable new baseload energy technology. We will accelerate the transition to net zero and provide energy security for partner nations, as global demand grows.
Ultimately, we will help create a safer and more secure world where clean energy is available to everyone, for the benefit of all life on earth.
This ground-breaking programme will develop and commercialise space based solar power. Space Solar must become the world’s most knowledgeable entity in space-based solar power technologies, system design, delivery, deployment, and utilisation.
The project will benefit humanity, supplying clean power whilst diminishing reliance on fossil fuels, thereby reducing carbon emissions. It will deliver a huge innovation footprint across sectors from energy to space to robotics. Therefore, the successful candidate must hold sustainability and innovation as key personal values if they are to have credibility both internally and externally.
About the Role:
As the Director of Product Development for Space Solar, you will be responsible for directing and delivering the development of our innovative demonstrators and products from initial concept and modelling to test, deployment, and operation. This role requires a visionary leader with a strong track record in successfully delivering complex multi-disciplinary engineering development programmes, ideally within aerospace or a similar high technology sector.
You will ideally have good experience in design for volume manufacture, and broad technical understanding across disciplines relevant to Space Based Solar Power such as space systems, RF, power electronics and robotics. Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of activities across engineering management, systems engineering, design, product development and test, manufacturing, certification, and logistics.
What you will bring to the team:
What you will bring to the team:
- Strong track record in successfully delivering complex multi-disciplinary engineering development programmes, ideally within aerospace or a similar high technology sector.
- Hands on experience of managing development trials programmes.
- Experience in systems engineering and a strong understanding of volume manufacturing and quality processes within a regulated safety critical sector such as aerospace.
- Strong leadership skills to effectively manage a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and foster collaboration among team members and our partners.
- Broad technical understanding across disciplines relevant to Space Based Solar Power such as space systems, RF, power electronics and robotics.
- Knowledge of relevant industry standards and regulations
Desirable:
- Development and deployment of spacecraft from technical, operational, regulatory and certification perspectives.
NB: Right to work:
Please be aware we will currently require you to have the right to work in the work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.
Notes
Technical Engineering>Product Development
Attached documents
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| Job Description | JD_Director_of_Product_Development_-_Space_Solar_-_Nov23.docx |