The Role

The SKAO Product Assurance team is responsible for the definition and implementation of the quality assurance and control activities for the SKA Project.

Reporting to the Product Assurance Manager, the Product Assurance Engineer delivers hands-on implementation of SKA quality assurance requirements for certain contracts within the SKA project and provides clear, regular updates to the project team. The role involves close engagement with contractors to confirm the adequacy of their processes and resources to execute the contracts, and to rigorously review outputs at each contract stage for compliance with requirements, standards and regulations. Working closely with Subject Matter Experts as required, the role is central to ensuring product quality and successful integration into the SKA Telescope system.

The Product Assurance required for SKAO will involve several challenges which are unique to research infrastructures. The successful candidate will rise to these challenges and overcome them to help deliver a world leading science facility. This will require good problem-solving skills, flexibility and adaptability to the ways of working in a research environment in order to come up with innovative theoretical ideas to problems and translating them to practical solutions for implementation.

The Product Assurance Engineer will be based at the SKAO headquarters in the UK but will also work in the field at contractors sites, the SKAO test facilities and the Telescope construction sites. Therefore, regular international travel to these sites will be required. Some duties may require occasional extended stays of up to 4 weeks in host countries, subject to visa requirements.

The role is a two year fixed-term and will be based in the SKAO Global Headquarters located at Jodrell Bank in the UK.