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.

A unique opportunity:  As Senior Programme Manager for Concept Design and Technology Development, you will be responsible for delivery of a series of linked, multi-£M design and development projects, as part of our overall development programme.  This role will be critical in enabling the business to achieve its goal to develop and industrialise Space Based Solar Power and deliver on our promises to our investors and stakeholders.

You will be working with the delivery team with overall responsibility to deliver the programme on time and to cost. This will require close working with the Senior Management Team (in particular, the Technical Directors - Technology and Product Development, the Senior Programme Manager for Demonstrators, and the Programmes Director), to ensure programme feasibility and to identify and resolve potential issues early.

As Senior Programme Manager, you will be responsible for taking ownership and evolving our project plans to ensure they are feasible, deliver best value for money, balance ambition with risk, and deliver innovation and realise opportunity.

Our programme is developmental and will need to be agile whilst ensuring that we deliver upon our milestone commitments to provide confidence to investors and shareholders. 

Our ideal candidate: 
We require someone with excellent programme management experience, is comfortable working in an environment where there may at times be uncertainty and no precedents, working under pressure and in a start-up culture. Experience with complex engineering, major technology / engineering design and development programmes is vital. Experience in working with major Space projects and/or technology scale up programmes would be advantageous.

You will need to be able to operate at both the Programme level – overseeing and managing the multiple strands of the programme – as well as getting stuck into the detail. You must therefore be comfortable with leading and/or supporting the development of detailed Programme and Project Management artefacts.

In conjunction with the Programme Director, and Senior Programme Manager for Demonstrators, you will help shape and evolve the role of the PMO to ensure it’s delivering the business’s needs efficiently and effectively.

You will be part of a “one team” approach; excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, a “can-do” mindset, and an agile/innovative approach to problem solving, are skills we consider of great value.

Desired:

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.