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Field office resident platform and payload engineers
2013-04-15 00:36:31| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Field office resident engineers We are looking for a long duration 18 months contract, a Resident Payload Engineer and a Resident Platform Engineer to be based at satellite contractor facilities in Northern Germany. The successful candidates will be a Payload and a Bus engineering specialists and will provide technical expertise on communications satellite payloads and the satellite bus in the monitoring of a satellite procurement program. From mid2013 to Q1 2015, the Payload Platform experts will provide oversight support of the spacecraft construction and test phase, including unit level, bus and payload module level and spacecraft level activities. Job Responsibilities The Resident Engineers will, under the Client Management, monitor the progress of the Payload Platform design, construction, and integration at the Manufacturers facility. They will assess the Manufacturers design, manufacturing processes, and quality practices and provide recommendations that result in the delivery of a more reliable spacecraft. Special emphasis will be placed upon the establishment of hardware family performance evaluation processes, lessons learned, and adequacy of test and process nonconformance corrective actions. Other responsibilities will include analyzing design review packages and actively participating in design review meetings, identifying areas of noncompliance, potential risk, and recommend appropriate actions to take. The resident engineers will also lead or assist in troubleshooting problems and anomalies with the design andor test of units or subsystems, and will evaluate the recommended corrective actions proposed by the satellite manufacturer. They will ensure major action items are tracked, answered, reviewed and closed. ExperienceSkills Required Engineering degree Eligible to work in Europe A minimum of five years of practical satellite industry experience in either communications satellite payloads or satellite bus Previous experience in a field office at a satellite contractor is a definite plus Experience in unit and subsystem level budgets, analysis and specifications Design andor procurement experience with all payload hardware and all bus hardware Experience with test requirements and evaluation of test results for units and subsystems Effective presentation skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills This is an ideal opportunity for senior engineers willing to embrace a consulting career. Run by space professionals, Spacelinks provide specialist recruitment in the space and defence industry. Spacelinks are acting as a Recruitment Agency with regards to this position. When applying, please send your CV as a Word document to cvspacelinks.com and please indicate your current salary and earliest date of availability. Make sure to include the vacancy number SL01605 in the subject line as we use email filtering.
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