Lead Thruster Technical Owner

THE EXPLORATION COMPANY; Bordeaux; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Exploration Company is seeking a Thruster Technical Owner to lead the technical follow-up of the Nyx thruster assemblies. You will manage the technical baseline, supplier development, qualification evidence, and delivery readiness while coordinating with propulsion, GNC, avionics, vehicle design, and procurement.

You will build strong supplier relationships, assess evidence, and ensure compliance with safety and flight operations. Fluency in English is required; French or German are helpful.

Qualifications

• Strong aerospace, mechanical, propulsion or related engineering background.
• Experience with spacecraft liquid propulsion hardware, bipropellant thrusters, hot-fire testing, qualification, manufacturing, or acceptance testing.
• Proven ability to own technical supplier follow-up for a critical component across requirements, interfaces, qualification, delivery, integration, and anomaly support.
• Strong system-engineering judgment across propulsion, GNC, avionics, vehicle design, QA, safety, and operations interfaces.
• Ability to communicate clearly with suppliers, engineers, program leadership, procurement, quality, test, and operations.
• Fluency in English; French and/or German are useful assets.

Responsabilités

• Own the thruster technical baseline: requirements, interfaces, verification, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain a system view of thruster interfaces across fluidic, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and control domains.
• Follow supplier development, hot-fire, qualification and acceptance test logic.
• Build a direct, fact-based technical relationship with supplier while maintaining TEC's independent judgment.
• Review supplier deliverables, analyses, drawings, procedures, inspection evidence, tests, and non-conformance inputs.
• Highlight maturity, readiness, and risks early with credible recovery options.
• Support AIT/MAIT prep, integration, testing, operations prep, and flight-data review.

Connaissances

Aerospace engineering

Propulsion systems

Systems engineering

Supplier management

Technical leadership

GNC integration

English fluency

Description du poste

The Exploration Company is seeking a Thruster Technical Owner to lead the technical follow-up of the Nyx thruster assemblies. You will manage the technical baseline, supplier development, qualification evidence, and delivery readiness while coordinating with propulsion, GNC, avionics, vehicle design, and procurement.

You will build strong supplier relationships, assess evidence, and ensure compliance with safety and flight operations. Fluency in English is required; French or German are helpful.