Senior Engineer, Satellite Manufacturing – Process

About the role

The Manufacturing Engineer – Process is responsible for defining, developing, validating, and continuously improving manufacturing processes for satellite production. The role ensures safe, efficient, and repeatable production across the entire lifecycle, from design to series manufacturing.

Key responsibilities

• Define, develop, and optimise manufacturing processes to improve efficiency, yield, quality, safety, and cost.
• Lead or support process industrialisation activities, including flow definition, line balancing, and capacity planning.
• Develop and maintain process documentation such as flows, work instructions, control plans, and PFMEAs.
• Establish and validate process capability through trials, DOE, and statistical analysis (SPC, Cp/Cpk).
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation solutions, and waste‑reduction initiatives.
• Support production by troubleshooting process issues and applying corrective actions.
• Collaborate with quality teams to ensure compliance with standards, customer requirements, and regulatory constraints.
• Support new product introduction by defining and validating manufacturing processes and pilot builds.
• Analyse production data to spot trends, risks, and continuous‑improvement opportunities.
• Drive standardisation and digitalisation of manufacturing processes and industrial data.

Required profile

• Strong understanding of industrial automation, controls engineering, and manufacturing systems.
• Knowledge of robotics, PLCs, HMIs, sensors, vision systems, and industrial networks.
• Experience with system integration, commissioning, and validation.
• Solid background in manufacturing process engineering, industrialisation, and process control.
• Familiarity with high‑reliability or regulated environments such as aerospace, defence, electronics, or medical.
• Proficiency in process documentation, validation methodologies, and quality tools (PFMEA, SPC, DOE).
• Data‑driven problem‑solving and structured root‑cause analysis skills.
• Continuous‑improvement mindset with experience applying Lean, Six Sigma or similar methodologies.
• 2–4 years of experience in manufacturing or process engineering.

Required skills

• Industrial automation
• Controls engineering
• Robotics
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
• Human‑Machine Interfaces (HMIs)
• Sensors and vision systems
• Industrial networks
• System integration
• Commissioning and validation
• Process engineering and control
• PFMEA
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Lean and Six Sigma methodologies
• ERP/MES systems
• Manufacturing data analysis
• CAD
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)