Intelsat's Rotational Associate Program is a highly competitive two-year program that provides recent graduates the opportunity to develop their technical skills in the communications industry at the forefront of satellite innovation. As a Rotational Associate, you will work for 8 months at a time, over a two-year period, in three different teams and experience the day-to-day responsibilities of the different career paths and work with different teams as they collaborate to achieve their goals.
If you are interested in launching your professional career in the satellite communications (SATCOM) industry, join Intelsat in one of our three Rotational Associate positions. We are committed to providing you with a wide range of industry exposure and the opportunity to be selected for a full-time position upon successful completion of the program. We provide comprehensive Orientation and training and coaching throughout the program as well as roundtable discussions with key members of the organization and guest speaker events to enhance business perspective. At the end of each 8 month rotation you will have the opportunity to present what you have learned and accomplished.
Engineering Rotational Associate - Process Optimization
In this track, you will utilize your education and skills and have the opportunity to make a lasting impact working with the Sales Engineering, Payload Operations, and Network Operations teams. Upon successful completion of the 24-month program, you will be promoted and placed accordingly into a role that will align with and build upon your experience.
Months 1-8 as an Associate, Solutions Development
As a part of the Solutions Development department, you will get insights into the entire customer journey from the initial service request and requirements gathering through to the service activation. As Solutions Development sits across this entire process and engages with other departments you will get to see this process flow and work on optimizing the way the different teams work and engage with each other. You will get to learn about the different Intelsat products and services that we offer our customers, the different teams and functions that we work with, and tools that we use to facilitate our processes. We are looking for somebody that can analyze these tools and processes to provide insights into what we as a department can be doing more efficiently and then help to develop a mechanism to improve our workflow processes.
Months 8-16 as an Associate, Satellite Payload Operations
As part of the Payload Operations team, you will learn how CONOPs (concept of operations) shapes our process execution. Armed with this knowledge, you'll oversee the Payload Reconfiguration workflow, striving to optimize configuration integrity to meet customer needs. Your role involves collaborating across departments to brainstorm ideas and aid in automating the Payload Reconfiguration workflow, culminating in presenting your findings. A successful rotation will establish the groundwork for saving hundreds of man-hours annually dedicated to the Payload Reconfiguration process.
Months 16-24 as an Associate, Operations and Satellite
As part of the Network Operations team, you will have a role in Intelsat's service issue resolution environment providing direct interaction with customers and adjacent internal support teams. The Network Operations team is structured around our technical verticals: Fulltime Media Broadcast and Occasional Use Satellite News Gathering support; Data team support of Managed Network services and Transport Technology; Platforms team support of iDirect, Gilat and Comtech platform mobility networks and RF team support of Space Segment services emphasizing investigation and resolution of satellite interference. You will learn the foundation skills needed to support all Intelsat offered services. You will receive exposure to the impactful events our customers experience and the solutions we achieve for them. You will have an opportunity to support service substantiation. Your role will be to assist our internal NOC escalation engineering teams with service issue escalations, documentation of training material, contribution towards process flow projects and auditing a core database for service data integrity.
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Preferred Qualifications