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D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven technologies and successful missions. Committed to helping companies profitably and sustainably maximize the opportunities to do business in space today and into the future, the company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions that will accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy, including human expansion into space.   ION Satellite Carrier, the company's core technology, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots; ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit.   D-Orbit has offices in Italy, Portugal, UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.   D-Orbit is hiring technicians to join our growing launch campaign team. As integral part of the group, you will be involved in the preparation of the logistics and procedural aspects of the final integration activities of a satellite and then, partecipate to the launch campaign activities directly at the launch sites.   For each mission, you will work with the launch campaign team to curate the flight preparation of the satellite and its payloads, getting in touch with multisciplinary aspects of the space applications.   You will interface with the Fleet Engineering team, and give your contribute to all technical aspects behind of the final spacecraft assembly, such as mechanical integration, electrical integration, software configuration and propulsion system preparation to flight.   Tasks and responsibilities   - Prepare and partecipate to Launch Campaign activities; - Support Launch campaign logistics; - Support satellite final integration activities; - Support of all the propulsion activities; - Customer's payloads integration and preparation to flight; - AIT procedures issue and maintenance; - Procedure compiling; - Attend refresher courses; - Launch Campaign Team evolution support, including but not limited to Hardware, software and processes development.   Professional experience   We are interested in speaking to people with a minimum of one to three years of experience working in manufacturing activities.   Job requirements   - One to three years of working experience in aerospace/automotive industry; - Experience with pressurized systems; - Experience in mechanical integration; - Experience in software configuration; - Proficiency in test procedures and reports authoring; - Proficient in using electronic lab instruments (oscilloscope, multimeter, vector network analyzer, power supply, electronic load, etc); - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; - Proactive attitude and ability to work in a team; - Knowledge of electronics, electrical connections and hardware components; - Knowledge of the Office package: Word and Excel; - Eligible to work temporarly in US and other location;   Nice-to-have skills   - Knowledge of spacecraft subsystems; - Experience with environmental test activities; - Knowledge of RF systems; - Knowledge of manual soldering; - Knowledge of Linux, in particular Ubuntu OS; - Knowledge of Github; - Knowledge of common electronic interfaces like CAN, UART, RS-422, Ethernet; - Knowledge of Python; - Crane certifications; - Forklift certifications; - Inhert gases certifications;   Education   - Highschool Technical diploma in Electronics, Mechatronics, Mechanics or equivalent practical experience.   Language   - This role requires professional proficiency in English B1 level or higher.   D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven technologies and successful missions. Committed to helping companies profitably and sustainably maximize the opportunities to do business in space today and into the future, the company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions that will accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy, including human expansion into space.   ION Satellite Carrier, the company's core technology, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots; ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit.   D-Orbit has offices in Italy, Portugal, UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.   D-Orbit is looking for a Mission Manager to join our Fleet Mission Management team. As Mission Manager you will be responsible for the execution and delivery of D-Orbit's launch services through all phases of operations, including but not limited to mission planning, customer management, launch service management, and post-launch operations delivery. You will lead a cross functional team to ensure the Mission success.   The position requires strong project management skills and the ability to manage individuals and teams.   This role is for an experienced project manager with great attention to detail and excellent people skills who can apply their technical and leadership expertise to accomplish the mission and make our customers happy   RESPONSIBILITIES   - Serve as primary point of contact with Customers during the whole mission execution ensuring mission success and customer satisfaction - Develop and manage multiple project timelines ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery. - Review and evaluate the mission status on a continuing basis and work unplanned mission issues to a best solution - Manage mission risks, addressing each risk through mitigation, acceptance, or transfer as appropriate - Manage exchanges and reviews with the Launch Service provider to ensure approval for flight. - Negotiate technical trades, and customer waiver requests as appropriate - Support in-person customer meetings and launch site integration activities - Manage mission budgets to achieve company targets - Ensure that mission requirements, purposes, objectives, and expectations are communicated and flowed down to the internal team. - Interface with internal engineering, management, and production teams to ensure on-time execution of the mission - Collaborate with Engineering team to assess the readiness of the platform for flight. - Collaborate to continuously develop and improve D-Orbit's mission management program and processes - Additional duties may be assigned, as needed.   QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS   - 3+ years of experience on technical project management; - 3+ years of experience in the aerospace industry; - Experience in launch vehicles, launch campaign and spacecraft preparatory for flight activities. - Experience with spacecraft build, manufacture, and test - Technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in space technologies; - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; - Excellent communication skills with a customer oriented approach; - Proactive attitude and ability to work in team and individually; - Leadership, management and team coordination skills; - Good Knowledge of software tools for PM support like Microsoft Project; - PMP certification is a plus.   EDUCATION   Advanced University degree (Master's degree or equivalent) preferably in Aerospace Engineering or Management Engineering.   LANGUAGE   Full professional proficiency of English language is mandatory.   D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven technologies and successful missions. Committed to helping companies profitably and sustainably maximize the opportunities to do business in space today and into the future, the company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions that will accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy, including human expansion into space.   ION Satellite Carrier, the company's core technology, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots; ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit.   D-Orbit has offices in Italy, Portugal, UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.   FLEET is the D-Orbit branch in charge for managing the ION Satellite Carrier missions. As the amount of flights is continuously increasing, the number of customers interested in D-Orbit services is exponentially growing up. For this reason, D-Orbit is hiring a mechanical engineer in the FLEET team.   D-Orbit is looking for an Associate Fleet Software Engineer to join our Fleet Engineering team. You will become part of a dynamic growing group responsible for supporting the delivery of satellite missions. You will work in a team with the aim to support the software integration of space instruments and tools within our ION Satellite Carriers fleet, development of specific flight software features, and development of new tools/applications as well as defining new processes to support flight software deployment for all satellites.   Through these activities and by working in a team with the key stakeholders in the development process you will deliver exciting new features and directly support on-going spacecraft operations.   Tasks and Responsibilities - Contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes and methodologies through development of new tools and applications. - Support integration and verification activities between hosted payloads and spacecrafts. - Support technical discussions with customers to identify needs and perform requirements breakdown. - Validation of features including integration with hardware-in-the-loop test suites. - Identify new strategies for flight software configuration and maintenance. - Identify the requirements for satellite management tools and guide their development either inside the team or with the support of external partner. - Be the direct interface with Product Development team for software related topic. - Be the direct interface with Fleet Engineering to prioritize activities.   Qualifications and Requirements   We are looking for individuals with the following skills: - Resilience and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. - Ability to work hard in a team setting to meet tight schedules. - Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively. - 1 - 2 years' experience in relevant software development activities. - Familiarity with using any Linux based distribution and appreciation of application development on Windows and Linux. - Knowledge of the most common coding languages. (e.g. Python, C, C++, etc.) - Capability of working autonomously. - Complimentary experience and or skills to the above will be considered.   Nice to have skills   - Experience with software development sprint management - Experience with software development time/cost estimations - Familiarity with typical software development methodologies and release versioning processes. (e.g. Git/Mercurial and CI/CD pipelines) - Knowledge of any typical embedded communication interfaces such as USART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, EtherCAT   Education   Bachelor's degree in any relevant area such as aerospace engineering, electronic engineering, computer science or automation, software development, with proven experience in participating in project development.   Language   Full professional proficiency of English language is mandatory.   D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven technologies and successful missions. Committed to helping companies profitably and sustainably maximize the opportunities to do business in space today and into the future, the company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions that will accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy, including human expansion into space.   ION Satellite Carrier, the company's core technology, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots; ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit.   D-Orbit has offices in Italy, Portugal, UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.   FLEET is the D-Orbit branch in charge for managing the ION Satellite Carrier missions. As the amount of flights is continuously increasing, the number of customers interested in D-Orbit services is exponentially growing up. For this reason, D-Orbit is hiring a mechanical engineer in the FLEET team.   As part of the FLEET Mechanical team you will be involved in the configuration and customization of already flight-qualified platforms providing safe and simple access to space to microsatellites, nanosatellites and hosted payloads. Guided by a customer-oriented approach, you will be responsible for designing the optimal way to integrate customer needs on the existing platforms.    Your personal contribution will be fundamental to accomplish the mission from the early customer acquisition phase to physical payload integration on the system you designed. Your main goals will be - support on-boarding process of customer payloads - design customized interfaces - support mechanical integrationTasks and responsibilities - Complete fit check analysis - Design of mechanical components  - Model, perform, and evaluate static, modal, and dynamic FEA on payloads' standard and custom mechanical interfaces - Draft production-ready 2D drawings  - Define operative procedures to assembly and integrate mechanical components - Create and maintain the CAD model of the satellite for a specific mission - Define and evaluate satellites' mass properties as per AOCS requirements - Draft mission technical documents - Give support to vibrational test campaigns - Support to Non-Conformance ReportsJob requirements - Experience in CAD software (knowledge of PTC Creo is a plus) - Experience in structural analysis (knowledge of MSC environment is a plus) - Experience in PLM software (knowledge of Teamcenter is a plus) - Strong interest in Mechanics and Mechanical part design - Proactive attitude and problem-solving skills - Ability to work in a team and individually - Knowledge of Microsoft ExcelProfessional experience D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven technologies and successful missions. Committed to helping companies profitably and sustainably maximize the opportunities to do business in space today and into the future, the company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions that will accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy, including human expansion into space.   ION Satellite Carrier, the company's core technology, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots; ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit.   D-Orbit has offices in Italy, Portugal, UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.   FLEET is the D-Orbit branch in charge for managing the ION Satellite Carrier missions. As the amount of flights is continuously increasing, the number of customers interested in D-Orbit services is exponentially growing up. For this reason, D-Orbit is hiring a mechanical engineer in the FLEET team.   As part of the FLEET STR team you will be involved in the configuration and customization of already flight-qualified platforms providing safe and simple access to space to microsatellites, nanosatellites and hosted payloads. Guided by a customer-oriented approach, you will be responsible for designing the optimal way to integrate customer needs on the existing platforms.    Your personal contribution will be fundamental to accomplish the mission from the early customer acquisition phase to physical payload integration on the system you designed. Your main goals will be: - support on-boarding process of customer payloads - design customized interfaces - support mechanical integration - coordinate mechanical activity at mission levelTasks and responsibilities - Complete fit check analysis - Design of mechanical components  - Model, perform, and evaluate static, modal, and dynamic FEA on payloads' standard and custom mechanical interfaces - Draft production-ready 2D drawings  - Define operative procedures to assembly and integrate mechanical components - Coordinate the structure team involved in a mission - Create and maintain the CAD model of the satellite for a specific mission - Define the optimal payload configuration for a mission, ensuring the coexistence of payloads structural requirements - Predict and evaluate the impact of on-boarding/disembarking one or more payloads from a mission - Provide preliminary structural assessments on structure compatibility between payload and platform - Define and evaluate satellites' mass properties as per AOCS requirements - Draft mission technical documents - Give support to vibrational test campaigns - Support to Non-Conformance ReportsJob requirements - Experience in CAD software (knowledge of PTC Creo is a plus) - Experience in structural analysis (knowledge of MSC environment is a plus) - Experience in PLM software (knowledge of Teamcenter is a plus) - Strong interest in Mechanics and Mechanical part design - Proactive attitude and problem-solving skills - Ability to work in a team and individually - Knowledge of Microsoft ExcelProfessional experience - 2-3 year of experience in mechanical design related activitiesNice-to-have skills - Customer-oriented philosophy;  - Strong interest in space and space applicationsEducation - University degree preferably in the fields of Aeronautical and Mechanical EngineeringLanguage - This role requires professional proficiency in English - Italian is a plus