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Spacecraft Operations Engineer
2014-07-16 16:42:03| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. All members of our recruitment team have extensive space experience, so have the insight necessary to support you through the application process. For our activities in ESOC, we are currently seeking a specialist to cover a Spacecraft Operations Engineering service to be provided for astronomy and fundamental physics missions operated by ESOC. The service will be delivered to XMMNewton INTEGRAL primarily in the first instance, but with the possibility of supporting other missions within the Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Missions Division at a later stage of the service provision. The primary areas of responsibility for this service are to support the Spacecraft Operations Managers in the development of operations procedures for onboard thermal control of platform and instruments, deorbiting, mission control system and simulator migration and automation activities. The key person is required to familiarise himself with the missions he is supporting and in particular with the procedures, ground segment and its tools that are needed to perform the mission operations. Tasks Among other tasks, the candidate may be required to familiarise himherself with the platform in order to be able to write mission operations procedures for the power and thermal subsystems mainly and payload support the development of mission operations automation tools software andor shell scripts interfacing the different components of the ground control systems MCS, simulator etc. support the mission team during operating systems migrations work and be on call as operations engineer supervising operations conduction one week every 56 weeks approx. write and maintain operational procedures in MOIS and reports monitor and control spacecraft operations participate in the relevant technical meetings and teleconferences. Qualifications and Requirements The key person will need to fulfil the following requirements Essential Experience with spacecraft operations Knowledge of spacecraft subsystems and operations, preferably OBDH, PowerThermal, payload Experience with SCOS MCS The key personnel will work in the role of SOE on the XMM Integral missions and as such is required to have the basic qualifications for a SOE position Experience with Procedure writing Experience with Operational simulators Experience with Operational databases Experience with Mission Planning In addition, the candidate shall be assertive, communicative and able to work in a team in a multinational environment. A good knowledge of the English language is mandatory. Desirable Experience of XMM Integral specific tools FOP tool, fopgen, MOIS, Operational Simulator, MCS, Database, Mission planning would be an asset XMMINT specific operational experience. Please note that Serco reserves the right of changing the advertisement closing date or to close vacancy at any time. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly in order to avoid any disappointment in such exceptional circumstances. Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think, you have the skills and experience required, please apply by either clicking on, or copying into your browser, the URL below. httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid54545 If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please address them to our recruitment team at space.careersserco.com Position Spacecraft Operations Engineer G014162OD8 Reference G014162OD8 Application closing date 040914 Start date 11014
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