AIT (Assembly, Testing & Integration) LEAD

Satellite AIT Ownership

• Own and drive all AIT activities for the Drishti Gen-2 satellite — mechanical assembly, electrical integration, harnessing, and functional/performance testing.
• Develop and maintain AIT plans, schedules, procedures, and test flow for satellite-level integration, in coordination with systems engineering.
• Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and non-conformance resolution during integration and test.
• Ensure test readiness reviews, test result reviews, and sign-offs are completed per program milestones.

Scaling to Constellation Build

• Transition AIT processes from a single-satellite, prototype-style build to a repeatable, higher-cadence constellation build process.
• Define and implement standardized work instructions, travelers/routers, and quality checkpoints suited to serial production.
• Identify and drive improvements in tooling, jigs/fixtures, and test consoles to reduce AIT cycle time per satellite as volume increases.

Team & Floor Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of AIT technicians on the shop floor — planning daily/weekly work, ensuring safety, and maintaining build discipline.
• Train technicians on assembly, integration, and test procedures, and build bench strength as the team grows with constellation ramp-up.

Cross-functional Coordination

• Partner with the Operations Manager to align AIT schedules with the overall production plan.
• Work with the Inventory Manager to ensure parts, sub-systems, and consumables are available and traceable for each build (kitting, GRN/issue tracking, shortage escalation).
• Align with the Ground Floor Manager on facility, cleanroom, EGSE/GSE, and safety requirements against the AIT schedule.
• Coordinate with Tech Heads, Project Managers, systems engineering, system leads, quality, and payload/sensor teams to resolve interface and requirement issues surfaced during integration.

Documentation & Compliance

• Maintain AIT documentation — test procedures, test reports, non-conformance reports, and traveler/router records — per applicable quality standards (e.g., ISO 9001; ECSS-Q-ST or equivalent space-quality framework, as adopted internally).
• Support configuration control and traceability of build records for each flight unit