Metrology Technician

PAVE Space is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving over 4-tonne payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours. Engine parts, structural castings, printed thrust chambers from external bureaus, fluid components, electronics, every one of them passes through your hands before it touches a vehicle. That's the job.

Engine and structural hardware is starting to land from suppliers, the workshop is being built, and the inspection equipment that will verify everything coming through the door needs to be specified now. The incoming inspection function doesn't exist yet. You'll define it, on a timeline measured in weeks, not quarters.

Incoming inspection of supplier hardware, castings, forgings, machined parts, AM parts from external bureaus, fluid components, electronics

Selection and commissioning of the shop's inspection equipment: CMM, optical, surface roughness, profilometry, hardness

The calibration register and traceability chain, defensible to ISO 17025 standards

Supplier non-conformance: document, elevate, manage the return and rework loop with Procurement and the Quality / PA Lead

Inspection tooling for the shop floor: what gauges, fixtures, and reference standards belong at each station

Spot-check support for in-house machined and printed parts when the team needs an independent measurement

The dimensional evidence chain that supports flight qualification dossiers

5+ years of metrology or incoming inspection engineering in aerospace, turbo machinery, medical, or another precision industry

Hands-on CMM programming and operation (Zeiss, Mitutoyo, Hexagon, or equivalent)

Strong GD&T fluency, including translating drawing requirements into measurement strategy

Working knowledge of ISO 17025 calibration discipline and traceability chains

Experience with optical metrology, surface roughness, and form measurement

Comfortable specifying and commissioning inspection equipment from scratch

Track record handling supplier non-conformance, documenting, escalating, and seeing it through to resolution

English, fluently;
French strongly preferred

Nice to have: metrology of printed parts (regen channels, internal features, X-ray CT); rocket engine or turbo machinery hardware verification; experience standing up an incoming inspection function rather than inheriting one.

You'd rather catch a bad part at the door than at integration.

You see the inspection equipment as a system; calibrated, traceable, and only as good as the discipline behind it.

You take pride in non-conformances that get resolved cleanly, not in finding things to reject.

You're comfortable telling a supplier their part is out of spec and standing behind the measurement when they push back.

You see your work as the reason the team upstream of you can trust what they're building with.

The job is fully on-site in Villeneuve (VD), with our test site in Chavalon twenty minutes away. The incoming inspection function is being built from scratch; you'll be specifying the equipment, defining the routines, and setting the standards. You'll report to the Quality / PA Lead and work closely with the Workshop, Procurement, and the Manufacturing team. This is hard and early.

If you want a mature metrology lab with a calibrated equipment fleet, this is the wrong seat. If you want to build that lab for the most ambitious space programme in Switzerland, it's the right one.