Senior Launch Operations Engineer

Senior Launch Operations Engineer

Isar Aerospace

Ottobrunn, Germany

Mission Brief

Your Role in Our Space Mission:

• Configuration Management:
  • Piloting the configuration management process for the launcher system
  • Authorizing proposed modifications in program committees
  • Approving Operator responsibility instruction files in accordance with the Law on Space Operations, utilizing internal expertise
• Monitoring the production of launchers and their sub-assemblies in order to:
  • Provide positive contributions as the launch operator to the industrial process
  • Anticipate, assess, and resolve specific challenges (specific missions, modifications, anomalies, induced impacts on other launch systems, etc.)
• Flight experience feedback:
  • Organizing and facilitating of the post-flight analysis process and the associated steering committee
  • Validating anomaly sheets, reports and/or presentations, based on internal expertise
  • Overseeing and validating the processing and closure of technical issues
  • Participating in working groups in response to major anomalies
• Adaptation of the launcher to the mission:
  • Contributing to the definition and monitoring of the development of specific hardware and/or software required for mission achievement, ensuring alignment with other departments' activities
• Leading the process of justifying the flight capability of the launcher system as Deputy/Launch Director during a launch campaign.
• Technical contribution to the construction of the flight suitability file:
  • Reviewing anomalies and exemptions presented during preparatory campaign milestones, formal reviews (FRR, LRR), or technical committees, and supporting the overall control and validation process

Qualification Checklist

• Graduate of an engineering school or equivalent European university, with at least five years of experience in the space sector, particularly in the field of launchers
• Expertise in electrical and/or propulsive systems and/or integration of launchers
• In-depth knowledge of launch operations
• Familiarity with laws and regulations applicable to space operations
• Demonstrated autonomy and a solution-oriented mindset