Lead Product Assurance for Spaceflight Hardware

PAVE Space SA; Villeneuve (VD); Remote; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Space SA is seeking a senior Product Assurance leader to own the PA programme for Space, Launch and Ground segments. You will shape processes, manage audits, and drive certification readiness for flight hardware.

The role is on-site in Villeneuve (VD) with close collaboration to supplier quality, insurers, and customers. You will lead NCRs, root cause analyses, and ensure traceability from part to test across propulsion or pressurised systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product assurance or quality leadership on space, aerospace, or other high-reliability hardware programmes
• Direct experience standing up certifications, not inheriting a mature one
• Track record managing institutional or commercial customer audits and qualification reviews
• Supplier quality experience at vehicle scale, including incoming inspection on critical hardware
• Hands-on with non-conformance and root-cause discipline at flight-hardware level
• Comfortable being the PA voice in a design review when the schedule says ship and the data says wait
• ECSS, NASA, or AS9100 working knowledge and the judgement to know when to depart from them
• English, fluently; French strongly preferred
• Experience certifying a small organisation to AS9100
• Experience with insurer or underwriter conversations on flight hardware
• Quality on propulsion or pressurised systems
• Experience standing up PA as a function rather than inheriting an established one.

Responsibilities

• The Product Assurance programme for Space, Launch and Ground segments; qualification, acceptance, flight pedigree
• The Quality Management System: processes, framework, and the path to potential certifications
• Non-conformance handling, root cause and corrective actions at flight-hardware level
• Insurer interface; the documentation, qualification evidence, and discipline that earns coverage on real terms
• Configuration management and traceability: what part, what batch, what build, what test

Skills

Product Assurance

Quality leadership

Space/aerospace

Audit management

Root cause analysis

Supplier quality

Non-conformance

AS9100 knowledge

Job description

PAVE Space SA is seeking a senior Product Assurance leader to own the PA programme for Space, Launch and Ground segments. You will shape processes, manage audits, and drive certification readiness for flight hardware.

The role is on-site in Villeneuve (VD) with close collaboration to supplier quality, insurers, and customers. You will lead NCRs, root cause analyses, and ensure traceability from part to test across propulsion or pressurised systems.