Automation Technician

PAVE Space SA.; Villeneuve (VD), Miex; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Space SA in Villeneuve (VD) and Chavalon, Switzerland, is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage for high-energy orbital transfers. This role centers on hands-on electrical cabinet buildout, wiring, and instrumentation for engine test benches.

You will own cabinet design from scratch, integrate sensors and actuators, and ensure safe, clean electrical infrastructure on-site. Collaboration with propulsion and test engineers is essential as you translate drawings into a working bench.

Qualifications

• Requires CFC in automation or electrical engineering (Swiss option).
• Minimum 2 years' experience wiring cabinets and electrical infrastructure.
• Hands-on with sensors, actuators and data acquisition hardware.
• Ability to read and implement electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Fluent English; French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, assemble, and wire electrical cabinets from scratch for engine test benches.
• Integrate sensors and actuators, wiring and verify industrial instrumentation.
• Provide electrical infrastructure across workshop and test site, safe and maintainable.
• Draw and implement electrical schematics to match bench reality.
• Support data acquisition hardware installation with propulsion/test engineers.

Skills

Cabinet design

Wiring panels

Sensor integration

Industrial instrumentation

Electrical schematics

Data acquisition

PLC programming

HMI development

Fluent English

Education

CFC in automation/electrical engineering

Swiss 4-year apprenticeship or equivalent

Tools

EPLAN

HMI software

Job description

PAVE Space is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-tonne payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours.

We're commissioning our first rocket engine test bench by the end of the year. The propulsion engineers own the test logic; what they need is reliable electrical infrastructure underneath it: cabinets, sensors, wiring, all built clean and built to stay. You'll join an existing team and own the hands-on buildout from empty panels to ready-to-fire.

You will own

Electrical cabinet design, assembly, and wiring from scratch for engine test benches

Sensor and actuator integration: installing, wiring, and verifying industrial instrumentation

Electrical infrastructure across test site and workshop, built to be safe, clean, and maintainable

Drawing and implementing electrical schematics, ensuring what's on paper matches what's on the bench

Supporting data acquisition hardware installation alongside propulsion and test engineers

What we are looking for

CFC in automation, electrical engineering, or equivalent (4-year apprenticeship for Swiss candidates; equivalent qualification or experience for international candidates)

Minimum 2 years professional experience building wiring cabinets, control panels, and electrical infrastructure

Hands-on experience with selection and operating industrial sensors, actuators, and data acquisition hardware

Ability to draw, interpret and implement electrical schematics and wiring diagrams fluently

Comfortable working in test site and workshop environments

Fluent English (our working language)

Nice to have: E-plan, PLC programming experience, HMI/GUI development, familiarity with aerospace or high-reliability test environments, French language skills.

You will fit if

You take pride in a cabinet that's wired clean enough that someone else can troubleshoot it at 2 a.m.

You'd rather build infrastructure from nothing than maintain what someone else already set up.

You're comfortable on a test site where things change week to week and the next task isn't always the one you planned.

You want to see the bench you wired actually fire an engine.

The role is split between our workshop in Villeneuve (VD) and our test site in Chavalon, about 20 minutes away. Both are on-site, every day. You're joining an existing team, not working alone, but the infrastructure is being built from scratch. It's early, it's real hardware, and what you wire will be behind every engine test we run.

We are building to ship, grounded on real hardware, real funding, real milestones.