Assembly, Integration, and Validation Manager

At ClearSpace, we believe in reusability, in affordability driving disruption, and that no progress is real unless it is sustainable.

Our company was founded in 2018 out of the realization that in-orbit servicing and space debris removal are vital services for the future of space exploration and operations. Today ClearSpace has assembled an expert engineering team and is leading the way toward sustainable space operations. From a garage in Switzerland, we now operate across UK and Europe, and are working with world-leading institutions and companies to bring our dream of a sustainable space ecosystem to life.

We are looking for an AIV Manager to join our UK office who will work on both our current missions and future projects.

Role Purpose/Summary

As an AIV manager, you will play a key role in preparing and coordinating the Assembly, Integration, and Validation (AIV) activities for ClearSpace’s current and upcoming missions.

You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing the project's AIV activities, working closely with system and subsystem teams.

Role Responsibilities

Planning and Coordination of AIV Activities

• Author the AIV plans
• Coordinate the AIV activities between the projects: find synergies, resolve issues
• Estimate and plan resource needs
• Ensure readiness for project test campaigns
• Take ownership of day-to-day AIV operations
• Oversee daily AIV operations, ensuring efficient task execution, resource coordination, and clear team communication.

Test Environment Design, Development and Maintenance

• Actively contribute to the test environment roadmap, design and implementation to meet the project needs and ensure availability, maintainability and scalability
• Manage hardware models
• Define electrical layout and harness, including manufacturing
• Coordinate with IT for infrastructure design and implementation (networking, tools, access)
• Ensure delivery, integration, and configuration management of the test bench components (hardware and software)

Process, Methods and Skills

• Maintain, orient and develop the AIV processes, methods and skills
• Help build a robust and scalable integration process from the ground up
• Drive continuous improvement in testing processes—from design and implementation to result analysis and delivery
• Provide technical leadership, training, and skill development within the AIV team

Subsystem and System Team Support

• Contribute to the definition of the test strategy
• Translate AIV strategy into actionable plans aligned with project schedules and technical requirements.
• Ensure the AIV test environment meet the satellite subsystem and system needs
• Plan, design, develop and execute tests
• Troubleshoot issues across software, hardware interfaces, and communication layers
• Present verification status at key project milestones
• Manage non-conformances with Product Assurance, assess impacts, and support corrective actions

Must have

• Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.

This position involves strategic decision-making and team leadership; therefore, significant experience is expected:

• Approximately 8 years of experience in AIV or relevant domain, ideally with full lifecycle involvement from planning to final delivery
• Familiarity with verification and validation processes, preferably in standard-driven developments
• Experience in managing complex technical activities

Also, the position requires strong interaction and support to the system and subsystem teams:

• Experience in the space domain (e.g. familiarity with one or several subsystems) is a plus

Nice to have

You must be able to think out of the box to propose innovate designs, while maintaining rigor and discipline to deliver on time with the required quality, and ensure configuration management, reliability and availability of the system for use by the downstream activities, with project deadlines.

You must be agile, flexible and eager to learn, to be able to work with multiple, diverse, geographically distributed teams.

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