UK Space Jobs

• Bradford
• £55,000 – £65,000 pa
• Permanent

Design and develop machine tool systems for a specialist grinding machinery manufacturer supplying aerospace and defence clients, including NASA and SpaceX. Day-to-day work centres on 3D modelling in Siemens NX, creating high-precision components, compiling and issuing BOMs, and running design and risk reviews for new projects while supporting shop-floor engineers.

Siemens NX · AutoCAD

• Poole
• On-site
• £42,000 – £46,000 pa
• Permanent

Hands-on quality inspection role at a precision engineering subcontract manufacturer accredited to AS9100, supplying the defence and aerospace sectors. Responsibilities include inspecting parts and products to AS9100 standards and developing improvement strategies to ensure products meet client requirements. Based in Poole with a 39-hour week and early Friday finish.

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Internship

A 12-month undergraduate placement within the Export Control team, supporting an end-to-end compliance process across the satellite programme life-cycle. Day-to-day work spans classifying items for export, assessing regulatory risk, liaising with government authorities, advising project managers from bid to delivery, and developing policies, training materials and SharePoint content.

SharePoint

• 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

• Didcot
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Develops and maintains flight dynamics models, algorithms, simulations and software tools for mission design, orbit determination, manoeuvre planning and collision avoidance. Works across orbital regimes and the full operational lifecycle, including rendezvous, docking and separation, supporting real-time mission operations with global teams.

MATLAB

• Didcot
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead operations across all mission phases for Astroscale's LEO missions, rotating through roles such as Mission Manager, Spacecraft Operations Engineer, Mission Planning and Spacecraft Controller. Involves developing operations concepts, procedures and tools, real-time spacecraft control, anomaly investigation and mentoring within a small, focused team.

SCOS-2000 · SIMSAT · ECSS

• 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

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 Engineering Operative apprenticeship building satellite structures at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage. Apprentices develop mechanical skills such as bonding, riveting, drilling and torque loading alongside electrical techniques including crimping, splicing, harness installation and fault finding, working in small teams on spacecraft manufacture.

3DX