Safety / ESD Engineer

ReOrbit is looking for a motivated and experienced Safety/ESD engineer to join our growing team at our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.

As our new Safety Engineer, you will lead ESD and safety practices across spacecraft Assembly, Integration & Testing (AIT) activities. You will ensure compliance with ESD, cleanroom, environmental, and safety requirements, conduct risk assessments and incident investigations, support audits and training, and work closely with AIT, Product Assurance, and Engineering teams to maintain safe and controlled integration and test environments

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the ESD Control Plan for operations.

• Ensure compliance with applicable ESD standards, including ECSS-Q-ST-20-07 or equivalent standards.

• Classify hardware according to ESD sensitivity levels and define appropriate handling requirements.

• Specify and monitor ESD Protected Areas (EPAs), grounding concepts and ESD-safe tools and equipment for working stations.

• Investigate, document and report ESD-related incidents and non-conformances.

• Define and implement safety procedures for spacecraft integration, testing and handling activities.

• Participate and perform risk assessments, safety reviews, test readiness reviews and other operational activities.

• Define and maintain lock-out/tag-out and access control procedures where required.

• Ensure compliance with cleanroom procedures and environmental requirements.

• Develop and deliver ESD and safety training programs for AIT and engineering personnel.

• Certify and maintain personnel qualifications for critical operations where required.

• Promote a strong safety and compliance culture across AIT teams.

• Work closely with AIT, Product Assurance and engineering teams to ensure ESD and safety requirements are incorporated into AIT processes and configurations.

• Coordinate with engineering teams to ensure design-for-ESD and safety considerations are addressed throughout the spacecraft lifecycle.

• Perform ESD verification checks and safety inspections during AIT activities.

• Maintain compliance records, inspection reports and safety logs.

• Support internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of identified findings.

• Investigate ESD, safety and environmental incidents.

• Support the management of non-conformance reports (NCRs) and corrective actions.

• Perform root cause analysis and define appropriate mitigation and preventive actions.

• Track corrective actions through to closure and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent qualification.

• Experience with risk assessment, hazard identification and safety procedures.

• Knowledge of ESD control principles, grounding concepts and ESD-safe working practices.

• Knowledge of applicable ECSS standards and requirements.

• Understanding of cleanroom operations, contamination control and environmental monitoring.

• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to compliance and documentation.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering and AIT teams.

• Certification or training in ESD control and/or occupational safety.

• Familiarity with digital AIT environments, configuration management and electronic documentation systems.

• Experience with non-conformance management, root cause analysis and corrective actions.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK, Bariloche, Argentina and Bengaluru, India.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength. 

We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment - you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.

• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .

• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor. 

• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking - runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.

• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society.

Join us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications

and, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era.

The Company may require a security clearance for certain positions. Any such security clearance will be conducted in accordance with applicable law and the Company's relevant policies

For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.