UK Space Jobs

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 Engineering Operative apprenticeship in satellite Assembly, Integration and Test, developing both mechanical and electrical skills. You'll work in small teams on satellite structures, harness routing, soldering, crimping and basic electrical testing, following drawings and tight tolerances, with year three fully on-site.

3DX

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 craft apprenticeship building spacecraft propulsion systems, covering mechanical assembly, orbital welding of titanium and stainless-steel pipework, and electrical harness work such as crimping, splicing and soldering. Apprentices rotate through the Propulsion Production area, work to tight tolerances from 3DX drawings, and spend a week on Outward Bound team-building activities in year two.

3DX

• Guildford
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Design, analyse, verify and deliver spacecraft power subsystems and analogue electronics, from battery charge/discharge regulators and DC-DC converters to power distribution and drive electronics. Acts as power subsystem lead on missions, working from concept through launch and operational life alongside technical leads across disciplines.

Mentor Graphics · OrCAD PSPICE · DC-DC Converters +5

• Guildford
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Lead verification, testing and debugging of imager electronics for optical payloads, covering digital, analogue and mixed-signal circuits from concept through AIT, launch and commissioning. The role involves circuit-level debugging, board-level validation, test automation with Python or TCL, and designing ground support equipment within a collaborative optical payloads team.

Mentor · Oscilloscopes · Logic Analysers +3

• Leicester
• £40,704 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role analysing JWST, ground-based and Juno infrared and microwave observations of the four giant planets, inverting spectra with radiative transfer and retrieval tools such as NEMESIS to derive temperatures, winds, composition and clouds. Based in the Planetary Science Group under Professor Leigh Fletcher, funded by an ERC Advanced Grant preparing the team for ELT and JUICE data in the 2030s.

JWST · NEMESIS · Juno +2

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Lead end-to-end SATCOM test management across ground segments, ground stations, modems and user terminals for government, MOD and Milsat customers. Define test and verification strategies, champion customer requirements through delivery on time, cost and quality, and train engineers in rigorous testing. Involves IV&V, test stubs and drivers, and occasional multi-week customer-site acceptance testing.

Ground Segments · Ground Stations · Modems +1

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Internship

Placement supporting the Industrial Management Team at a Portsmouth spacecraft manufacturing site, driving Lean improvement projects and Operational Excellence. You'll help define a 12-month site improvement plan, build production dashboards and KPIs, and standardise Lean processes across Portsmouth and Stevenage. Involves 5S, VSM, flow analysis and multi-project coordination with teams in the UK, Germany and France.

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 craft apprenticeship in a satellite manufacturing environment, developing mechanical skills on large, complex spacecraft panels. You'll work in small teams on panel assembly, mirror bonding and surface treatments, using adhesives, hand measuring tools and laser technology to tight tolerances, with rotations across production areas and an outward-bound team building week.

3DX · Laser Technology · MLI

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Internship

A 12-month undergraduate placement within the Payload Procurement team, sourcing and managing high-value RF hardware sub-contracts for telecom, Earth observation and navigation satellites. You'll support commodity management, market surveys, tendering and supplier selection, or supply chain and quality management covering on-time, on-quality delivery and improvement projects.

Google Workspace

• Portsmouth
• On-site
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead and develop a production team delivering high-reliability products, optimising resource planning and interfacing directly with the shop floor to meet time, quality, cost and safety targets. Define global production plans across multiple parallel projects using P6 scheduling and manufacturing systems such as SAP MES, while driving continuous improvement and work package management.

SAP Manufacturing Execution Systems · P6

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Internship

Undergraduate placement within Airbus's Project Management Office, supporting Project Managers with business management tools, processes, templates and reporting. Involves project plans, risk and opportunity registers, change logs, milestone tracking and monthly stakeholder reporting, with exposure to MoD and ESA programmes. Hybrid working with flexible hours.

Microsoft Office · Excel · Google Workspace +1

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Permanent

Acts as the primary point of contact for export control advice across space systems programmes, covering national and international regulations and sanctions. Develops and implements control processes, delivers training to cross-functional stakeholders, and maintains accurate records for audit and reporting. Works within a multidisciplinary team across four UK sites supporting commercial and defence land, air and space programmes.

SPIRE · LITE · PV Gradings +1

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Maintains and manages security products including EDR, multi-antivirus and email sandboxing, while supporting SecDevOps and secure development automation. Defines and implements a company-wide threat modeling framework and leads the end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle using Tenable, plus security incident and request management such as firewall rules and access controls.

EDR · Tenable · Email Sandboxing +1