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Cost Engineer
2016-06-27 15:07:15| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Ajilon Technology Aerospace is looking for an Cost Engineer E3 for an opportunity at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands Ajilon Technology Aerospace is a specialized Engineering consultancy with more than 30 years experience providing aerospace Engineers to our key partners in The Netherlands. Ajilon is a longstanding business partner of the European Space Agency ESA, with more than 100 employees recruited from across Europe currently supporting ESAs activities. General tasks to be performed The work covers the provision of standard cost engineering services. This includes Cost Estimating Projects data collection, analysis, normalisation and entry into the existing Cost Engineering database. Cost models development. This includes cost, schedule and risk aspects. Cost Estimates including schedule and cost risk estimates. Provision of Cost Estimate reports according to the ESA standards. Accountability records consisting in comparing in a structured manner the external estimates and prices versus the internal estimates. Benchmarking and calibrating internal and external cost models. For the execution of the above tasks the contractor will be requested to Use related ESA Corporate or Cost Engineering specific software tools, documentations systems, and databases. Interface with the relevant actors within the Directorate, with ESA Programme Directorates and with ESA Corporate Services. To successfully perform the above mentioned tasks, the following background experience is required For the execution of the tasks covered by this Work Package the Contractor shall have adequate skills and experience in the following areas A degree in engineering, preferably related to space. Several years of cost engineering experience, preferably in the aerospace domain. Proven experience in gathering and processing reference data cost, programmatic, technical building cost models out of them Elaborate cost estimates using cost models Elaborate structured and convincing cost reports. Ability to interface effectively with relevant actors at all hierarchical levels. Ability to readily assimilate and coordinate input data and provide timely output. Reliability, rigor and sense of initiative in the execution of the assigned tasks. Ability to understand and adapt to the ESA specific context and environment. Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, as well as synthetic and conceptual capabilities Autonomy, initiative and capability to set priorities and handle high workload. Familiarity in the use of standard office automation support software packages such as Word, Excel and of commercial database system e.g. Access, electronic mail and Web based applications. About ESAESTEC The European Space Agency ESA has sites in several European countries. The European Space Research and Technology Centre ESTEC is the largest site and the technical heart of ESA. This nursery of European space activities is located in Noordwijk, Netherlands. At ESTEC, about 2500 engineers, technicians and scientists work handson with mission design, spacecraft and space technology. Almost all ESA projects except launchers are managed from ESTEC. In Noordwijk, people work on science missions, manned space missions, Earth observation, telecommunications and navigation satellites. ESTEC provides extensive testing facilities to verify the proper operation of spacecraft, such as the Large Space Simulator LSS, acoustic and electromagnetic testing bays, multiaxis vibration tables and the ESA Propulsion Laboratory EPL. Please send your CV to technologyaerospaceajilon.nl before 15072016
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