ALTEN
10,000+ employees
🚀 Aerospace
Engineering • IT Services • Aerospace
ALTEN is a leader in outsourced Engineering and R&D and IT Services, catering to various industries such as aeronautics, automotive, banking, and life sciences. With a workforce of over 57,400 employees across nearly 30 countries, ALTEN specializes in executing complex and technical projects, supporting innovation and technology advancements in multiple sectors. The company focuses on providing engineering services, project management, and IT solutions to enhance client operations and foster sustainable innovation.
Program Manager
🔥 1 hour ago
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏳ Contract/Temporary
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
📋 Program Manager
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ALTEN
10,000+ employees
🚀 Aerospace
Engineering • IT Services • Aerospace
ALTEN is a leader in outsourced Engineering and R&D and IT Services, catering to various industries such as aeronautics, automotive, banking, and life sciences. With a workforce of over 57,400 employees across nearly 30 countries, ALTEN specializes in executing complex and technical projects, supporting innovation and technology advancements in multiple sectors. The company focuses on providing engineering services, project management, and IT solutions to enhance client operations and foster sustainable innovation.
📋 Description
• Lead the end‑to‑end programme delivery for a complex spacecraft mission, ensuring alignment with mission objectives and customer expectations. • Own the programme schedule , milestones, dependencies, and critical paths, driving on‑time delivery across all work packages. • Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams (systems, electrical, mechanical, RF, software, payload, AIT) to maintain programme coherence. • Oversee risk management , identifying programme‑level risks and implementing mitigation strategies with engineering leads. • Manage budget, resources, and reporting , ensuring financial and operational transparency throughout the programme lifecycle. • Lead technical and programme reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR), ensuring readiness, completeness, and quality of deliverables. • Maintain strong stakeholder communication , providing clear updates on progress, risks, decisions, and required actions. • Ensure programme activities comply with high‑reliability space standards , quality requirements, and mission constraints. • Oversee configuration control , ensuring changes are properly assessed, approved, and documented. • Support spacecraft integration, test, and verification phases, ensuring smooth transitions into AIT and mission readiness. • Drive continuous improvement in programme processes, communication flows, and delivery efficiency. • Represent the programme at senior‑level discussions, customer meetings, and strategic planning sessions.
🎯 Requirements
• Space industry experience — direct involvement in spacecraft programmes, satellite development, or mission‑critical space projects. • Proven experience managing complex technical programmes with multidisciplinary engineering teams. • Strong understanding of spacecraft development lifecycles (design, integration, testing, verification). • Skilled in schedule management, milestone tracking, and programme‑level planning. • Experience with risk management, issue tracking, and mitigation planning. • Ability to interpret technical documentation and communicate effectively with engineering leads and stakeholders. • Strong organisational, leadership, and communication skills. • Experience leading programme reviews and reporting to senior management. • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering , or equivalent military experience.
🏖️ Benefits
• Private Medical Insurance • Cycle & Tech Scheme • Employee assistance programme • Life insurance & Pension Scheme • Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings • Flexible way of working (role dependent)
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