{"id":4216543,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ses-payload-electronics-lab-technician-meosphere","title":"Payload Electronics Lab Technician, meoSphere","company":{"id":54618,"name":"SES","domain":"ses.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ses-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Field & Service","role_family":"Field & Service","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg"],"countries":["LU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ECSS","optional":true},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T02:56:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T19:51:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Payload Electronics Lab Technician, meoSphere\nPROGRAM DESCRIPTION\nmeoSphere is SES’s next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation, designed to deliver secure connectivity services to government agencies, enterprises, and commercial customers. It will also provide high-speed broadband internet to eliminate global connectivity dead zones.\nTo accelerate development timelines, reduce costs, and ensure quality, SES is internalizing a critical segment of the satellite supply chain: the final integration of partner satellite platforms with SES’s software-defined payloads, all within a cutting-edge manufacturing and test facility.\nRole description summary\nThe Payload Electrnics Lab Technician is the primary point of contact for payload engineering and its related spaces. The role keeps the laboratory organized, safe, stocked and ready for engineering model and flatsat campaigns, and defines the policies that govern how it is used.\nAlongside lab ownership, the role provides hands-on technical support to the payload engineering team: specifying and manufacturing test harnesses, reworking boards and building test setups.\nIt is deliberately a hands-on, generalist position. The successful candidate will work with their hands in the laboratory every day and will be trained in new disciplines, including space-grade harness manufacturing and rework standards, if needed.\nIn your first twelve months, you will set up the laboratory's organization, inventory and policies from the ground up, and support the integration and test of a complete payload comprising all the different subsystems of a satellite payload. Within two years, hardware you have helped build, wire and test will have flown in space.\nPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES / KEY RESULT AREAS\nLaboratory organization and policy\nServe as the primary point of contact for the payload engineering laboratory and related spaces.\nDefine, document and maintain the laboratory policy: access rules, bench allocation across concurrent campaigns, ESD-protected areas, housekeeping, and segregation of flight-representative from non-flight hardware.\nKeep the laboratory clean, tidy and organised, and enforce adherence to ESD protocols.\nAdminister laboratory access and coordinate inductions and training on lab rules and instrument handling.\nKeep laboratory documentation current and compliant with health and safety standards, including risk assessments and safety data sheets.\nEnsure proper storage, labelling and handling of chemicals, consumables and equipment.\nInventory, stock and consumables\nOwn the calibration programme: intervals, recall scheduling, coordination with external calibration houses, and retention of certificates traceable to national standards.\nPrevent use of out-of-calibration equipment through labelling, quarantine and register status, and maintain the associated records as verification evidence.\nEquipment maintenance and calibration\nTrack schedules and perform preventive maintenance and calibration of instruments, coordinating with external calibration houses and retaining certificates traceable to national standards.\nPrevent use of out-of-calibration equipment through labelling, quarantine and register status, and maintain the associated records as verification evidence.\nHarness Manufacturing & Hands-On Test Support\nSpecify test and EM harnesses from interface requirements, selecting wires, connectors, backshells and accessories.\nProduce and maintain harness drawings, wire lists, pin-outs and BOMs under configuration control.\nManufacture, modify and repair test and EM harnesses to controlled drawings, wire lists and BOMs.\nPerform continuity, insulation resistance and pin-out acceptance testing before first mate and record the results (training provided).\nBoard rework and engineering support\nRework and repair electronic boards: component replacement, through-hole and SMD soldering, modifications and inspection.\nBuild and maintain test setups for engineering and AIT campaigns, including fixtures, adapters and break-out boxes.\nProvide hands-on support to assembly, integration and test activities.\nQualifications Background and Experience\nTechnical diploma, apprenticeship, HND/BTS or Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics or Electromechanical Engineering, or equivalent demonstrable experience.\nMinimum of 2 years of relevant experience in a laboratory, workshop, integration, test or production environment.\nProven hands-on soldering and board rework skills, including SMD components.\nPractical harness skills: crimping, connector assembly, cable routing and labelling.\nAbility to read schematics and work instructions, and to read and produce harness drawings, wire lists and BOMs.\nExperience organizing a laboratory or workshop: stock and consumables management, housekeeping and working to safety rules.\nDisciplined approach to documentation, inventory and traceability, with a methodical, process-oriented mindset and a genuine appetite to learn new disciplines on the job.\nFluency in English, both written and spoken.\nNice to have\nSpace-grade workmanship certification (ECSS-Q-ST-70-08, ECSS-Q-ST-70-26, IPC J-STD-001, IPC-7711/7721 or IPC/WHMA-A-620); training will be provided.\nExperience with an electrical CAD or harness design tool (e.g. SolidWorks Electrical, Zuken E3.series).\nKnowledge of ESD control programmes (e.g. IEC 61340-5-1) and of safe storage and handling of chemicals.\nExperience of calibration management, inventory control, or cleanroom and contamination control.\nExperience of drafting laboratory procedures or policies.\nFamiliarity with workshop equipment such as 3D printers or CNC machines.\nAny other European language.\nOther key requirements / comments\nEligibility for ESA/EU SECRET personnel security clearances is essential. Candidates must be prepared to undergo a security clearance procedure, as this position may require holding such clearance\nThis is a fully onsite, hands-on role based at the payload-dev laboratory in Luxembourg\nWillingness to travel occasionally within Europe to suppliers, radiation testing premises and training providers. \nEmbark on a career with us, where diversity isn't just a buzzword - it's our driving force. We are crafting a workplace mosaic that values every hue, background, and perspective. Join a global team where inclusivity sparks innovation, and individuality is not only embraced but celebrated. At SES we are committed to hiring inspiring individuals from all backgrounds. We take great pride in creating safe and inclusive processes and we support the recruitment, retention, and evolution of all employees irrespective ofgender, colour, race, ethnicity, religion,sexual orientation,disability,veteranor marital status, backgroundor walk in life.\n\nSES and its Affiliated Companies are committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all. 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