Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the comprehensive delivery of a complex spacecraft mission, ensuring alignment with mission goals and customer requirements.

• Take ownership of the programme timeline, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths, driving timely delivery across all work packages.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams (systems, electrical, mechanical, RF, software, payload, AIT) to ensure programme consistency.

• Supervise risk management efforts by identifying programme-level risks and collaborating with engineering leads on mitigation strategies.

• Manage budget, resources, and reporting, ensuring financial and operational transparency throughout the programme's lifecycle.

• Conduct technical and programme reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR), ensuring readiness, completeness, and quality of deliverables.

• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, providing clear updates on progress, risks, decisions, and necessary actions.

• Ensure programme activities adhere to high-reliability space standards, quality requirements, and mission constraints.

• Oversee configuration control, ensuring that changes are properly evaluated, approved, and documented.

• Support the integration, testing, and verification phases of the spacecraft, ensuring smooth transitions into AIT and mission readiness.

• Promote continuous improvement in programme processes, communication channels, and delivery efficiency.

• Represent the programme in senior-level discussions, customer meetings, and strategic planning sessions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in the space industry, with direct involvement in spacecraft programmes, satellite development, or mission-critical space projects.

• Demonstrated experience in managing complex technical programmes with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of spacecraft development lifecycles (design, integration, testing, verification).

• Proficient in schedule management, milestone tracking, and programme-level planning.

• Experience in risk management, issue tracking, and planning for mitigation.

• Ability to interpret technical documentation and communicate effectively with engineering leads and stakeholders.

• Excellent organisational, leadership, and communication skills.

• Proven experience leading programme reviews and reporting to senior management.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• 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)