AIT Harness Engineer

Job description

Your Missions

• Manufacture spacecraft flight harnesses and test cables in line with project specifications, quality standards, and delivery timelines.
• Implement harness designs during the manufacturing process, ensuring compliance with electrical, grounding, and environmental requirements.
• Perform build, inspection, and verification activities for flight hardware and ground support equipment.
• Support spacecraft test cable manufacture for assembly, integration, and testing activities.
• Liaise with spacecraft systems teams to identify, document, and resolve technical issues or anomalies.
• Contribute to harness routing discussions and provide practical input based on manufacturing and integration constraints.
• Provide progress reporting on harness manufacturing activities, risks, and delivery status.
• Support general assembly, integration, testing, and environmental verification activities, including off-site or overseas project support when required.

Your Profile

• Experience in harness and cable manufacture within the space, aerospace, defence, or high-reliability manufacturing sector.
• Experience working with spacecraft flight hardware during design, development, implementation, verification, or validation phases.
• Experience executing work and inspection activities according to recognised quality and manufacturing standards.
• Experience working in cleanroom conditions is a plus.
• Proficiency in spacecraft harness manufacture, cable assembly, crimping, RF coaxial cable preparation, grounding requirements, and electrical continuity principles.
• Knowledge of ECSS-Q-ST-70-26 for crimping of high-reliability electrical connections and ECSS-Q-ST-70-18 for preparation, assembly, and mounting of RF coaxial cables.
• Academic background with a minimum HNC/HND in an engineering or science discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience in the space industry.
• English fluent.
• EU-based personal security clearance held currently or within the last five years, and citizenship of a European Union member state or Schengen-associated country.
• Strong attention to detail, communication, teamwork, flexibility, and pragmatic problem-solving skills, with the ability to support irregular hours, weekend work during peak workload periods, overseas travel, and site mobility when required.

What We Offer

• An international community bringing together 110+ different nationalities.
• An environment where trust has a central place: 70% of our key leaders started their careers at the first level of responsibilities.
• A robust training system with our internal Academy and 250+ available modules.
• A vibrant workplace that frequently gathers for internal events, including afterworks and team buildings.
• Exposure to high-impact aerospace and spacecraft development projects in an international technical environment.
• The opportunity to contribute to complex engineering activities involving flight hardware, harness manufacturing, testing, and integration.
• At Mantu, sustainability is part of everything we do. You’ll have the opportunity to turn your ideas into action and make a tangible impact. Every day, our teams bring our ESG commitments to life, from reducing our footprint to driving positive change within our communities. Through our WeCare Together program, you’ll be empowered to design and lead projects that create real social or environmental impact, with the company’s full support.

Who are we?

Amaris Consulting is an independent technology consulting firm providing guidance and solutions to businesses. With more than 1000 clients across the globe, we have been rolling out solutions in major projects for over a decade – this is made possible by an international team of 7,600 people spread across 5 continents and more than 60 countries. Our solutions focus on four different Business Lines: Information System & Digital, Telecom, Life Sciences and Engineering. We’re focused on building and nurturing a top talent community where all our team members can achieve their full potential. Amaris is your steppingstone to cross rivers of change, meet challenges and achieve all your projects with success.

At Amaris, we strive to provide our candidates with the best possible recruitment experience. We like to get to know our candidates, challenge them, and be able to give them proper feedback as quickly as possible. Here's what our recruitment process looks like:   

Brief Call: Our process typically begins with a brief virtual/phone conversation to get to know you! The objective? Learn about you, understand your motivations, and make sure we have the right job for you! 

Interviews (the average number of interviews is 3 - the number may vary depending on the level of seniority required for the position). During the interviews, you will meet people from our team: your line manager of course, but also other people related to your future role. We will talk in depth about you, your experience, and skills, but also about the position and what will be expected of you. Of course, you will also get to know Amaris: our culture, our roots, our teams, and your career opportunities!

Case study: Depending on the position, we may ask you to take a test. This could be a role play, a technical assessment, a problem-solving scenario, etc.   

As you know, every person is different and so is every role in a company.  That is why we have to adapt accordingly, and the process may differ slightly at times. However, please know that we always put ourselves in the candidate's shoes to ensure they have the best possible experience. 
We look forward to meeting you!