Structures Integration Manager - MIURA 5 Launch Vehicle

PLD Space; Elche; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance discount

Healthy snacks

Paid vacation

Restaurant tickets

Transportation contributions

Training support

Descripción de la vacante

PLD Space in Elche, Spain seeks a senior Structures Integration Lead to manage the MIURA 5 integration activities, coordinating with propulsion, manufacturing, avionics, and test operations to ensure seamless vehicle assembly.

You will lead structures integration teams, manage configurations, plan testing during vehicle integration and launch campaigns, and support launch countdowns. A deep background in aerospace structures and proven leadership are required.

Formación

• 10+ years of aerospace structure's integration, electrical integration, or launch vehicle/ Aircraft or Satellite integration experience.
• Strong understanding of aerospace structures.
• Experience leading technical integration teams in operational environments.
• Experience supporting integrated testing and launch campaigns.
• Physiotherapy within our facilities
• 50% discount on your health insurance
• You can sign-up your family members with health insurance at a competitive price.
• Healthy snacks and lots of fruit

Responsabilidades

• Lead all structures integration activities for MIURA 5 launch vehicles and future developments.
• Coordinate installation, routing, integration, checkout, and validation of structures, propellant tanks, interstage, fairing integration and secondary composite structure.
• Ensure structure integration activities comply with approved configurations, procedures, schedules, and quality requirements.
• Maintain operational readiness of structures integration teams, tooling, and facilities.
• Coordinate structures functional testing during vehicle integration and launch preparation.
• Ensure structures readiness for qualification and acceptance testing.
• Support troubleshooting during integrated vehicle test campaigns.
• Support launch countdown and operations.
• Coordinate rapid troubleshooting and anomaly resolution during launch campaigns.
• Maintain traceability of structures configurations.

Conocimientos

Aerospace structures

Leadership

Integrated testing

Launch campaigns

Team coordination

Descripción del empleo

PLD Space is an international company on a mission to transport satellites into space, vertically integrating the engineering, testing, manufacturing, and operations of its reusable and sustainable rockets. Headquartered in Elche (Spain) and founded in 2011 by Raúl Torres and Raúl Verdú, PLD Space has established itself as a global benchmark in the small satellite launch sector. Its family of MIURA launchers and LINCE crewed capsule position the company as a leader in European technological sovereignty for space transportation, covering the full spectrum of space missions.

PLD Space operates over 188,000 m² of facilities in Elche, Teruel (Spain), Kourou (French Guiana), and Duqm (Oman), enabling the company to provide comprehensive satellite and payload launch services into space.

Teamwork, courage, determination and ambition enable PLD Space to guarantee an autonomous, independent satellite space access capability, based on reliability at a globally competitive price. The company is able to offer best-in‑class launch services to commercial satellite operators, institutions, space agencies and national and international governmental entities

Mission

Responsible for the planning, coordination, execution, and verification of all structures integration activities associated with the MIURA 5 launch vehicle.

Manage propellant tanks, interstage, fairing integration and secondary composite structural elements

Acts as the interface between propulsion engineering, manufacturing, vehicle integration, avionics integration, propulsion integration, test operations, and launch operations.

• Lead all structures integration activities for MIURA 5 launch vehicles and future developments.
• Coordinate installation, routing, integration, checkout, and validation of structures, propellant tanks, interstage, fairing integration and secondary composite structure.
• Ensure structure integration activities comply with approved configurations, procedures, schedules, and quality requirements.
• Maintain operational readiness of structures integration teams, tooling, and facilities.

Integrated Vehicle Checkout & Testing

• Coordinate structures functional testing during vehicle integration and launch preparation.
• Ensure structures readiness for qualification and acceptance testing.
• Support troubleshooting during integrated vehicle test campaigns.

Launch Campaign Support

• Support launch site structures integration and checkout activities.
• Coordinate avionics closeouts before launch operations.
• Support launch countdown and operations.
• Coordinate rapid troubleshooting and anomaly resolution during launch campaigns.

Configuration & Quality Control

• Ensure structures integration activities comply with approved configurations and engineering documentation.
• Maintain traceability of structures configurations.
• Support nonconformance resolution and corrective action implementation.
• Lead structures integration technicians, engineers, and operational support personnel.
• Define roles, responsibilities, and accountability within the structures integration organization.
• Support staffing, training, qualification, and development of structures integration personnel.
• Promote operational discipline and safety culture.
• Launch campaign structures status reports

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of aerospace structure's integration, electrical integration, or launch vehicle/ Aircraft or Satellite integration experience.
• Strong understanding of aerospace structures
• Experience supporting integrated testing and launch campaigns.
• Experience leading technical integration teams in operational environments.
• Physiotherapy within our facilities
• 50% discount on your health insurance
• You can sign-up your family members with health insurance at a competitive price.
• Healthy snacks and lots of fruit

Find balance

• 23 days of paid vacation plus December 24th and 31st

Never stop learning

• We encourage practical learning
• We promote professional development through internal mobility and teamwork

Focus on your financial future

• Childcare flexible contributions
• Restaurant tickets
• Transport flexible contributions
• Training support

Values

We have four critical beliefs that guide the way PLD Space is shaping the future of space launch technologies.

• Teamwork.
• Commitment.
• Keep it simple.

Join us to reinvent how rockets are built!