Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Define and own the thermal control system (TCS) architecture for spacecraft or satellite platforms
- Lead thermal modelling and analysis across full mission profiles
- Develop thermal design solutions including radiators, MLI, coatings, heat pipes, and conductive interfaces
- Ensure compliance with ECSS and programme-specific standards
- Support environmental test campaigns including thermal vacuum (TVAC)
- Interface with systems, structural, AIT, and payload teams to ensure integrated thermal performance
- Provide technical leadership and oversight across the thermal discipline
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience working on spacecraft, satellite, or space system programmes
- Strong expertise in radiative heat transfer and thermal balance in space environments
- Experience defining full thermal system architecture at platform level
- Proven experience with thermal modelling and analysis tools
- Deep understanding of space environmental constraints (vacuum, radiation, orbital cycling)
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience
- Significant experience within space programmes (LEO, GEO, deep space, or equivalent)
Benefits
- A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
- A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cycle & Tech Scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Life insurance & Pension Scheme
- Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings
- Flexible way of working (role dependent)