Technical Planner - Propulsion

The Exploration Company; Bordeaux; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Exploration Company is developing Nyx Earth, a modular space propulsion program, and seeks a Propulsion Planner to maintain schedule, risks, actions, and milestones across development, procurement, tests, integration, and flight-readiness activities.

You will collaborate with propulsion owners, program management, procurement, quality, and operations, reporting to Propulsion leadership and Program Management as needed. Fluency in English is expected.

Qualifications

• Background in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, project management, operations, industrial engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with schedule management, milestone tracking, risk management, action tracking, or project controls in a complex technical environment.
• Strong interest in spacecraft propulsion and hardware development.
• Familiarity with planning and reporting tools such as MS Project, monday.com, Jira, Excel, or Power BI.
• Ability to translate technical uncertainty into clear planning, risk, and decision language.
• Excellent organization, communication, and follow-through.
• Fluency in English; French and/or German are useful assets.

Responsabilités

• Maintain a clear propulsion planning view covering milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, reviews, supplier inputs, test campaigns, and integration needs.
• Support milestone flow down from the Nyx Earth program schedule into propulsion subsystem and equipment-level activities.
• Keep propulsion risk and action tracking up to date, with clear owners, due dates, mitigation status, and escalation needs.
• Prepare concise planning dashboards and status inputs for propulsion and program reviews.
• Work with technical owners to identify schedule slips, long-lead items, evidence gaps, supplier dependencies, and recovery options early.
• Help the propulsion team keep planning routines practical, useful, and connected to real technical progress.

Connaissances

Schedule management

Milestone tracking

Risk management

Action tracking

Project controls

English fluency

Formation

Aerospace engineering

Systems engineering

Project management

Operations

Industrial engineering

Outils

MS Project

monday.com

Jira

Excel

Power BI

Description du poste

Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and that can carry cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run.

As we are working on the detailed design, qualification, and delivery of Nyx Earth, we are looking for a Propulsion Planner to help the propulsion team keep schedule, risk, actions, and milestones clear across development, procurement, test, integration, and flight-readiness activities.

You will work closely with propulsion technical owners, program management, procurement, quality, AIT/MAIT, test, and operations teams. The reporting line is to be confirmed between Propulsion leadership and Program Management.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a clear propulsion planning view covering key milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, reviews, supplier inputs, test campaigns, and integration needs.
• Support milestone flow down from the Nyx Earth program schedule into propulsion subsystem and equipment-level activities.
• Keep propulsion risk and action tracking up to date, with clear owners, due dates, mitigation status, and escalation needs.
• Prepare concise planning dashboards and status inputs for propulsion and program reviews.
• Work with technical owners to identify schedule slips, long-lead items, evidence gaps, supplier dependencies, and recovery options early.
• Help the propulsion team keep planning routines practical, useful, and connected to real technical progress.

What We Would Love To See From You

• Background in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, project management, operations, industrial engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with schedule management, milestone tracking, risk management, action tracking, or project controls in a complex technical environment.
• Strong interest in spacecraft propulsion and hardware development.
• Familiarity with tools such as MS Project, monday.com, Jira, Excel, Power BI, or similar planning and reporting tools.
• Ability to work with engineering teams and translate technical uncertainty into clear planning, risk, and decision language.
• Excellent organization, communication, and follow-through.
• Fluency in English; French and/or German are useful assets.

Skills and Behaviors

• You are structured and reliable: people can trust your planning data.
• You raise risks early and make blockers visible before they become surprises.
• You communicate clearly with engineers, program leaders, procurement, quality, test, and operations teams.
• You balance pragmatism with discipline: enough process to help the team, not enough to slow it down.
• You are curious about technical context and comfortable asking questions until the plan reflects reality.

Why You Should Join Us

• We are agile: we make decisions fast while keeping our goals and systems in mind.
• We are open and collaborative: we are transparent about risks and obstacles so we can solve them together.
• We have a lot of fun: we refuel our energy knowing we are democratizing space.

We would love to hear from you if you want to be part of our journey.

The Exploration Company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

We would love to hear from you if you wish to be a part of our journey. Please submit your CV now for immediate consideration and we will be in touch shortly.

The Exploration Company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. Relocation assistance is provided for those willing to relocate including visa sponsorship where applicable.

All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, which will be subject to the country, role, and project you applied for. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree that any offer of employment may be conditional upon successful condition of this check. The Exploration Company partners with Zinc Work Limited located in the UK (Zinc), a third-party provider, to ensure this process as efficient and transparent as possible.

If applicable, you will receive an email from Zinc upon acceptance of your offer with a link to a secure portal where you can provide the required information to Zinc.