Space Propulsion Designer

Space Propulsion Designer

Thales

Rome, Italy

CANDIDATES THAT WOULD IMPRESS US

PROFILE:

• You graduated with a Master od Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering degree with propulsion discipline or fluid analysis
• You are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches
• You are responsible and show a great sense of initiative
• You are convincing and persuasive
• You like to be involved with the customer
• You have good communication and relationship skills

COMPETENCIES:

• You are aware of the description of the operational concept
• You have a deep knowledge of the field and its technical strategy
• You are familiar with operational analysis
• You are able to work in co-engineering (Lean Thinking, Obeya...)
• You understand the different actors involved in the project and are able to contextualise and change the perspective (political, economic, social, technical, environmental, legal...)
• You are familiar with Concept, Design, Experimentation and Simulation tools, as well as modelling tools (such as MBSE)
• You are familiar with working with Integration Verification Validation Qualification and Agile methods

LIFE AS A SPACE PROPULSION DESIGNER

As a Space Propulsion Designer Role within Thales, you will:

• Define and recommend candidate architectures for the corresponding level (solution or solution element) to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to the standards and re-use policies, the technology roadmap and the business strategy
• Establish the solution architecture by making trade-offs between stakeholder expectations, technical and technological solutions and costs, risks and schedule, document the associated artefacts (architecture justification in the design and justification file, product breakdown structure, system/segment design document) and approve the resulting lower-level specifications (internal or external)
• Assist in the solution development cycle and in defining the co-engineering approach
• Manage, all along the project life cycle, the assignment of the corresponding level requirements, the management of the performance evaluation and the critical parameters, the definition of the interfaces, the technical negotiation between the different stakeholders (internal or external)