Head of the Avionics Architecture Section

 

Location
ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands  

Description

Head of the Avionics Architecture Section, Avionics and EEE Division, Electrical Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.

 

Reporting to the Head of the Avionics and EEE Division, you, as Head of the Avionics Architecture Section, will be responsible for the management of the Section, its resources and activities, and accountable for the outcome of operational activities conducted within the Section’s technical domain.

 

The Avionics Architecture Section is responsible for providing support to all ESA projects in avionics architecture and may carry out technological research and development (R&D) in the field of avionics. The Section’s responsibilities cover:

 

• the provision of engineering support to projects for the avionics subsystem across all project phases. The provision of project support covers:
  • the cooordination and consolidation of associated subsystem elements and functions, and management of the flow-down of related requirements in collaboration with the staff responsible for subsystem elements and architects.
  • the follow-up of the development and qualification of equipment contributing to the avionics subsystem, as well as the monitoring of the production of avionics hardware units by industrial partners.
  • verification and validation activities for the avionics subsystem, including support for functional tests, assembly, integration and verification (AIV) procedures, and launch campaign activities, together with the relevant avionics test means such as system test benches and simulators as defined by Avionics Architects.
  • system-level verification and validation efforts.
  • contribution to flight operations and post-flight analyses.
  • assistance to relevant project management activities related to the avionics subsystem.
• development of avionics embedded system architecture, including associated technologies, methods and tools (e.g. MBSE, Avionic FDIR), in coordination with the staff responsible for subsystem elements and architects.
• engineering standards for avionics subsystems in accordance with ECSS, CCSDS and other standardisation bodies.
• the avionics embedded systems harmonisation dossier, coordinated with associated harmonisation dossier sub-elements.
• the Avionics Subsystems Laboratory, in support of project, section and industrial activities.
• the Knowledge Management strategy for the avionics architecture discipline.

Duties

Your tasks and responsibilities will include the following:

 

Workload assessment and assignment:

• Establishing the multi-year plan of activities for the Section, covering required competences and assignment of resources;
• Setting annual objectives and managing/coordinating on a day-to-day basis specialised technical support in the Section’s fields of expertise, in full collaboration with the functional manager
• Actively contributing to increasing the agility/flexibility required to meet the short-notice and peak-period resource needs of projects;
• Being accountable for all activities and resources delegated to the Section, and for resolving possible conflicting demands on the use of the Section’s resources.

 

Talent management:

• Maintaining state-of-the-art expertise in the Section – identifying, developing, maintaining and tracking the technical competences needed to meet current and future strategic needs;
• Driving the development of people within your area of responsibility, facilitating the development of people beyond your area of responsibility, and encouraging mobility when it serves the organisation’s interests;
• Encouraging the integration of newcomers and contributing to their initial development plans, in particular in the first three years of their contracts.
   

Support management:

• Monitoring, measuring and reporting on individual and team performance regarding the Section’s objectives;
• Being accountable to the hierarchy for all the daily matters within the Section and for the achievement of the Section’s objectives.
   

Expertise offering: management of tools/processes/working methods:

• Ensuring regular interaction between the Section members, supporting teamwork, the exchange of experience and lessons learned, and the gathering of feedback;
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of working procedures, tools, processes, expert working methods and delivery methods (lessons learned, knowledge management) and to the reflection on the evolution of the Section's role and activities;
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