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Simulations officer
2015-02-06 15:06:46| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities Duties Tasks Simulations Officers are responsible for developing the training concept and the associated Simulation Plan to train the Mission Control Team, in order to prepare them for the launch or other critical phases of an ESA mission. This includes planning and developing failure cases of increasing difficulty to be introduced into the simulations, in order to train the Mission Control Team in nonnominal operations and application of mission rules. Simulations Officers are also planned to be involved with the operational training of other staff, including but not limited to Ground Operations Managers and ESTRACK Control Centre ECC operators. The Simulations Officer service requires familiarisation with both the space and ground segment. For a particular mission, the Prime Simulations Officer is responsible for the delivery of training to the Mission Control Team, supported by a Deputy Simulations Officer. The Deputy Simulations Officer is responsible for supporting the prime Simulations Officer in the delivery of training. This includes assistance with simulator breakpoint preparation, testing of contingencies, writing briefing and debriefing messages, and running simulations. The allocation of simulations officers to missions and ground facilities training is decided by HSOONX in consultation with the relevant GSMs and SOMs. For this position the following allocation is anticipated Simulations Officer for the GALILEO mission Galileo LEOPs are being conducted by an integrated ESACNES mission operations team. The simulations officer team is currently composed of 2 CNES and 1 ESOC simulation officers. The prime simulation officer is provided by the agency being in charge of the LEOP, as such prime and deputy position are alternating. Qualifications Key personnel providing this service should have good professional experience in spacecraft andor operational applications, preferably also in the area of training. Required knowledge E01 Good spacecraft knowledge on a subsystem level E02 Experience in working in an operational environment E03 Ability to understand and accurately predict behaviour of complex systems E04 Be fluent in English, both in speech and writing E05 Selfstarter, able to work independently with little or no supervision E06 Proactive and confident personality with good persuasive skills E07 Teamplayer, able to interface with technical and management personnel E08 Wellorganised, able to prioritise and manage several tasks in parallel E09 Familiarity with operational training E10 Familiarity with operational simulators, ideally SimSat E11 Familiarity with satellite control systems, ideally SCOS2000 E12 Familiarity with programmingscripting languages e.g. C, Java, JavaScript E13 European citizen D01 Security Clearance in view of later projects D02 Experience in operational training D03 Familiarity with the ESOC working environment and Quality Management System QMS D04 Knowledge of operations D05 Experience with prelaunch activities and launch campaigns D06 Experience in instructional design methodologies D07 Experience with prelaunch activities and launch campaigns WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com
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