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Power Conditioning Engineer
2016-01-29 18:06:30| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Vitrociset Belgium is looking for a candidate with the profile described below to deploy in ESTEC Please submit applications not later than 2222016 by EMAIL to Mr. Massimiliano Mazza, Head of Engineering services Satellite Operations M.Mazzavitrocisetbelgium.com cc. jobsvitrocisetbelgium.com Specific Tasks The contractor will be responsible for providing electrical power system and conditioning technical support, to ESA projects and technology development contracts and shall thus perform the following activities The design, development and test of spacecraft power systems for onboard applications. This work encompasses the definition of centralised power systems having overall power levels up to 25 kilowatts, together with their interfaces with respect to solar arrays and batteries, the attendant power distributionprotection equipments and pyrotechnic activation functions. Detailed tasks include the overall system design necessary for the development of faulttolerant power control and distribution concepts, the detailed design of the power regulators and the identificationuse of tools and methods for ensuring dependable design and verification. The development of simulation blocks for system analysis batteries, solar cells arrays, power control and distribution units useful for the independent evaluation of critical power and energy budgets in support to running projects of the Agency. Support to laboratory activities concerning design and development or verification of circuits for power management and distribution solar array and battery conversion electronics, power distribution and protection electronics, power conversion for generic and specific purposes, including redundancy and protections. Active involvement in critical RD activities support by simulation, worst case analysis and laboratory testing of the overall system or of the most critical subunits. Assisting to the development and validation of worst case simulation blocks for electrical equipment analysis converters, shunt regulators, current limiters, protections, critical telemetry or telecommand functions useful for the independent check of the most critical equipment functionality and performances, in support to all programmes reviews where the power conditioning section is involved. The development and verification of high voltage design technologies and associated power converters, suitable for application as Electronic Power Conditioners EPCs for specialised spacecraft payloads such as Travelling Wave Tube Assemblies TWTAs and Electric Propulsion Concepts. In order to support these skills, the candidate should also have familiarity with simulation software for analogue systems MathlabSimulink or similar and circuit analysis tools such as PSPICE or Microcap. The contractor will be deployed in project support andor RD contract support according to workload and priorities set in the section. Specific Competence Requirements A university degree or equivalent qualification in Electronic Engineering, Space Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline. o The contractor should have a good electrical power processing background, together with a good experience of digital and analogue electronics and control theory. o In addition the contractor should have specific experience in the domain of power conditioning electronics together, with hands on knowledge of the circuit design of such systems. o Also the contractor should have good experience in the development of computer models, especially with SPICEbased simulators. o To fulfil the identified tasks, the contractor shall have a university degree or equivalent in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or Physics. o The knowledge and the experience on High Voltage power conditioning for space application constitute an asset. o We are looking for a dynamic and well motivated candidate, with good team work and communication capabilities.
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