Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?
We are looking for a Cubesats Systems Engineer to work at ESTEC’s premises in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
About the client and location
The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) base in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. As ESA’s largest test centre, it is responsible for the majority of space technology and spacecraft development through varying phases of production.
Tasks and activities
The scope of work will include:
- Providing system engineering support, contributing throughout all the projects’ development phases and lifetime.
- Assisting in system architectures and concepts of operations’ definition.
- Assisting in requirement management including definition of system technical requirement and reviewing requirements flow-down from Space Segment System to subsystems/units, including interfaces, and help maintain requirement traceability and the requirements database / VCD.
- Supporting identification of main system drivers for design, evaluation, and trade studies, and assist project design trade-off discussion.
- Contributing to the consolidation and tracking of system budgets across the project lifecycle to support compliance checks.
- Assisting in identification of technical risks and elaboration of mitigations actions, with monitoring of risks’ evolution and impact on schedules and performances.
- Contribution to the implementation of end-to-end mission performance simulators and mission performance models.
- Providing support for launch preparation activities, launch, LEOP and in-orbit commissioning activities.
- Assisting in the technical monitoring of industrial activities, including preparation of and participation to meetings and reviews, in the system engineering and AIT/AIV domain.
Skills and experience
The following skills and experience are mandatory:
- A Master’s degree, or equivalent, in a relevant technical or scientific discipline (e.g. Space System Engineering).
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with procurement and technical monitoring of industrial activities.
- Experience with Space Engineering Standards and their preparation and implementation.
- Knowledge of Space Missions and Spacecraft Systems Design.
- Understanding of space systems architectures.
- Background in Systems Engineering in the early project phases (trade-offs, budgets, identification of critical technology developments, etc).
- Desire to work both autonomously and as part of a team, in an international multicultural environment.
- Solution oriented mindset, with a customer focused communication skill.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
Why should you apply?
- You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
- We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
- To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
- Benefits include: competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, all genders, LGBTQ+ individuals and ex-service personnel.
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