Columbus System & Payload Engineer

Company Description

HE Space is a successful international space company. For 40 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration.

Job Description

As part of the Technical Support to Human Space Flight & Exploration Division, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Contribution to the Performance Reviews of the COL SE&I industrial service contractors;
• Support to Columbus operations and engineering feasibility assessments;
• Support the execution of COL infrastructure operations in ISS increments;
• Participate in the establishment of strategy and policy for long-term operations and maintenance for the ESA payload flight systems;
• Oversee and coordinate Engineering integration and logistics for P/Ls (Payloads) and experiments with the various involved stakeholders (Esa internal, industry partners);
• Implement the Columbus systems and Payloads Engineering Operations and Maintenance Services and any interagency agreements for sustaining engineering of jointly operated facilities;
• Support the implementation of ESA operations support contracts;
• Coordinate and interact with other service providers in operations and other fields, like Columbus and Payloads enhancement and procurement organisation;
• Support the increment integration activities and participate and represent ESA SE&Ias required on the increment integration and payload mission readiness meetings;
• Manage and coordinate with the Product Assurance the Material Review Boards (MRB) process as needed to support the resolution and recovery of failures (inputs and summaries) for on-ground and on-orbit elements;
• Participate in the ECB process representing ESA as required;
• Interface with the industrial System or Payload Engineering Managers as required for the implementation of engineering and maintenance function including monitoring of the industrial activities required for the repair and upgrades of the hardware;
• Interaction with industrial operations engineering teams to manage the respective engineering work packages;
• Evaluate and implement spare procurement and change requests; 
• Participate in the Design and Acceptance Review Process of the assigned European ISS elements, enhancements, and experiments;
• Contribute to the contractual transition for projects that have completed the development phase;
• Manage the transfer and integration of the new infrastructure elements including the Engineering Data Base from the developers to the exploitation documentation database; 
• Familiarise with new infrastructure elements and processes as applicable;
• Coordinate inputs in contribution to periodical progress meetings with the industrial SE&I service contractors; 
• Provide operations engineering support/expertise to projects in the C/D phase, with the goal to establish the operations engineering and maintenance concepts;
• Review and assess Experiment Science Requirements (ESRs) for engineering integration and maintenance aspects.

Qualifications

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

• Master´s degree in a relevant discipline is mandatory;
• Several years of experience in the design and verification of Operations related systems and products for the International Space Station programme;
• Software experience will be considered an advantage;
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

Additional Information

This job is located in Noordwijk. Please note this is a 1-year position, with possibility of prolongation.

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) to Leandros Foteinias, by clicking on the button “I´m interested” quoting job NL-HP-5158.

Deadline to apply: 31st Aug 23.

An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!