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Radio Navigation Engineer
2016-07-13 13:05:17| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 70,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government B2G business, specialising across five sectors Defence, Justice Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency where we are the largest onsite service provider with ca. 300 staff. For our activities in ESTEC, we are currently looking for a Radio Navigation Engineer. Please note, that the selected candidate will be deployed at the Toulouse Space Centre CST for the first 6 months. Main responsibilities The work includes design, analysis, implementation and testing of radio navigation systems, with emphasis on system architecture and performance, and on radio navigation receivers. The principal tasks and responsibilities will include Support to the EGNOS project in the monitoring of industrial activities in the areas of specifications, design, development and validation for the EGNOS V2 and V3 Ranging Integrity Monitoring System RIMS at hardware and software level Support to monitoring the EGNOS industrial developments for both single and multifrequency multiconstellation receiver design, encompassing all levels of development and performance parameters to sustain the systemlevel performance requirements Supporting the EGNOS system team contributing to the Integrity and Continuity budgets with consolidated receiver performance data, critically reviewing the system processing performance of sensed data within the SBAS processing nodes of both EGNOS V2 and V3 infrastructures Maintaining a high level of expertise of SBAS and avionics receiver technology, including good understanding of the commercial receiver market and the applicable international standards Maintaining a good knowledge of the RF environment conditions in EGNOS hosting sites through site survey results and EGNOS system operations feedback constraining the operability and performance of the RIMS subsystem Contributing to research and development activities by proposing antenna and receiver experimentation and improvements for supporting various navigation test bed activities Supporting EGNOS system Qualification, Safety, Security and AIV in the position holders area of expertise Participating in periodic meetings with the parent section, contributing to the transfer of technical knowledge and lessons learned across the Agency. Ideal candidate Requirements You should have a Master Degree in telecommunications and signal processing or electronic engineering, as well as at least 4 years of working experience in these fields and in radio frequency systems and in navigation receivers as well as applicable standards for avionics and SBAS in the civil aviation domain. Furthermore you should bring the following Experience of SBAS and procurement of industrial activities in safetycritical software and realtime hardware and software development and verification Willing to travel on a regular basis Good analytical, organisational and reporting skills, a proactive attitude to problemsolving and an interest in innovative technologies Candidates must be eligible for security clearance from their national security administration. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for the Netherlands or be EU EEA nationals. Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in Serco Europes Careers Hub httpscareershub.serco.eu
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