Description
Senior Satellite Consultant
Wiltshire
£400 - £500 per day
Job Description:
This role in the will have a major part in developing and describing the complete, integrated and assured option solutions and supporting the preferred option down-selection. The role will provide leadership for the identification and specification of technical expertise for the space, ground station and user terminal segments, and their corresponding allocation and development within the alternative options. Additional, the role will support the development of the assessment criteria to be adopted within the options analysis.
Specific objectives include:
- Providing SP leadership in the identification of space, ground station and user terminal design options, issues and risks
- Development of alternative space, ground station and user terminal strategies
- Development of space, ground station and user terminal assessment criteria
- Establishing effective and positive working relationships with, and ensuring technical coherence across, the Solution Development, Options Analysis, Requirements and Engineering & Technical work streams
- Act as a point of contact for any technical design matters, issues or risks
- Establishing effective and positive working relationships with, and provide briefings and progress updates to, the user community, senior stakeholders and scrutiny and assurance community
- Thorough understanding of user and system requirements and their translation into system solutions
- Setting, planning and maintaining appropriate technical objectives and milestones for the assessment phase
- Establishing and maintaining appropriate project documents
- Supporting stakeholder meetings, capture requirements and provide evidential records of key meetings and decisions made
- Reporting and providing progress reports to the appropriate authorities, including work stream lead, stage manager and project manager
- Liaise and work with the project team.
Skills Required:
Strong competencies in the following areas:
- Knowledge and understanding of Satcom technical space, ground station and user terminal segments
- Effective leader with credibility, good organisational skills, able to motivate teams and provide project direction
- Good project planning and management skills; attention to detail
- Ability to work well with others, as well as independently
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable delivering at high pace
- Ideally, prior experience of complex, multi-billion pound IT solutions, in the satellite communications industry
- Ideally, current knowledge and connections with the satellite communications supply chain.
- Ideally, major satellite communications project implementation experience in a technical leadership role.
- Able to simplify complex issues for briefing at senior level and to increase the knowledge base.
- This is a key role within a busy team that will require a deal of resilience and determination to get the job done.