Project Manager
Astroscale
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toulouse • 🇫🇷 France
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Overall responsibility for the delivery of complex space missions.
- Achieved via the coordination of matrixed project / engineering teams.
- Planning and delivery of project review gates, including management and production of associated deliverables.
- Define and maintain an appropriate balance of quality, cost, schedule, and risk, whilst delivering projects and their associated deliverables.
- Generate project inputs to mission concept studies, technical or non-technical packages of work, and bid work, in support of the wider business.
- Interface with customers, suppliers, and programme partners as necessary in support of project, bids, or similar activities.
- Report and be internally accountable to business and senior management.
- Reviews held on time with agreed entry/exit criteria.
- Baseline (scope/schedule/cost) established and change-controlled.
- Risks/opportunities managed with quantified exposure.
- Suppliers performing to plan (OTD/OCD metrics).
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience in project/programme management in space, aerospace, or similarly complex high-reliability engineering domains.
- Demonstrated delivery experience across technical projects, including schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder management.
- Hands-on experience producing and maintaining core PM artefacts: IMS, WBS, reports, risk register, action tracking, financial reporting, and review documentation (including contractual deliverables when applicable).
- Experience planning and conducting formal review gates (e.g., SRR/PDR/CDR and equivalents).
- Ability to work effectively with Systems Engineering and understand key SE outputs (architecture, CONOPS, requirements, verification approach).
- Working level understanding of spacecraft project interfaces (e.g., AOCS, C&DH, software, payload/sensors, ground segment, operations).
- Awareness of AIV/AIT/AIVT principles (integration and test flow, environmental testing, verification/validation).
- Fluent in French and English (written and spoken).
- Eligible to work in France/EU and able to obtain French security clearance (as required by certain projects).
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible working arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementschedule managementcost managementrisk managementstakeholder managementIMSWBSrisk registerfinancial reportingreview documentation
Soft skills
coordinationcommunicationaccountabilityproblem-solvinginterpersonal skills
Certifications
French security clearance