About the job

The Astroscale Mission Operations department is structured into two teams, Mission Operations and Operations Preparation. This role covers the leadership of the Operations Preparation aspects of our work. This position focuses on the ‘missionisation’ of Astroscale UK’s projects, enabling successful mission execution by developing achievable mission operations concepts which address both operability requirements and mission constraints. To do this, close integration with system and sub-system engineers from both space and ground segments is essential. Extensive knowledge of mission operations as well as collaboration with the Mission Operations Team are needed for this role. An understanding of the needs and constraints of operating a rendezvous mission, and the ability to contextualise the downstream impact of design or concept choices made in early mission phases are key requisites. As the Astroscale UK mission operations scenario evolves into multi-mission and fleet operations the Operations Preparation Team Lead will be responsible for representing the changing needs of the Ops Team with internal and external partners and providers, proposing and implementing solutions in our concept of operations.