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Environmental Control and Life Support Engineer
2020-10-09 10:10:46| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
We are looking for an Environmental Control and Life Support Engineer E3 to join our Modis Aerospace team, working onsite at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. Modis Aerospace is a specialized Engineering consultancy with more than 30 years experience providing aerospace Engineers to our key partners in The Netherlands. Modis is a longstanding business partner of the European Space Agency ESA, with more than 120 employees recruited from across Europe currently supporting ESAs activities. Specific tasks to be performed The incumbent will work in the Life support and Physical Sciences Instrumentation Section in ESAESTEC. The main focus of our work is sustainable life support technologies, In Situ Resource Utilisation and small payload development for manned and unmanned spaceflight. The incumbent will Implement and supervise RD activities in the field of sustainable life support technologies e.g. MELiSSA, with a specific focus on bioreactors, biochemical processes characterisation, modelling and development Supervise the development of technology demonstrators on board ISS and follow up of operations over its life cycle Implement and supervise RD activities in the area of In Situ Resource Utilisation Provide project support for manned spaceflight and scientific experiments onboard the ISS Provide support to the management of the MELiSSA project, technical and scientific coordination with MELiSSA partners. General tasks to be performed Assistance in the provision of specific engineering support to ESA projects Provision of support in detailed technical specification of planned RD activities Assistance in the technical evaluation of development results, as well as designs from projects Conceptual planning and implementation of test setups in the microgravity laboratory Planning, settingup and execution of test activities in the laboratory Analysis, evaluation, reporting and interpretation of data of biological or physiological experiments Support of Breadboard testing and sample evaluation for Life Support activities. To successfully perform the above mentioned tasks, the following background experience is required PhD or Master in Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology applied Microbiology or Physics Experience in specification, engineering and analysis of chemical and biochemical processes, knowledge of plantfood production Experience in multiphases processes characterisation and engineering is asset Project skills, Management of RD contracts, academic and industrial experience Knowledge of space systems engineering is an asset Good interpersonal communication skills, team oriented. 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 recruitmentaerospacemodis.com before 03112020
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