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Thermal Engineer
2013-05-24 18:36:14| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Astrium brings space to you. Number 1 in Europe and number 3 worldwide, Astrium employs over 17,000 men and women mainly based in five European countries France, Germany, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. Our technical excellence and extensive prime contractorship experience extend across all sectors of the space business launch vehicles, manned space activities, satellite systems and related services. A Thermal Engineer is being recruited by Astrium in Stevenage. The successful applicant will be working on exciting and technically challenging missions and this will be an ideal position to expand your Thermal Engineering experience within the Space sector. The successful applicant will work on missions such as Bepi Colombo Mercury mission and Solar Orbiter both of which will operate so close to the sun that they will be subject to a solar constant 14 times greater than that experienced in Earth orbit. Alternatively, there are spacecraft such as Aeolus, Earthcare and Swarm which will orbit our planet Earth, gathering data on the planets behaviour and helping scientists understand issues such as global warming. There are numerous Telecommunication missions that enable people to connect with each across the planet. Last, but not least, you will be able to work extraterrestrial missions. Projects like Exomars Rover which will explore the plant Mars and Lisa Pathfinder intending to measure and improve the understanding of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein. The successful applicant could work on whole spacecraft, instrument or unit thermal designs. The key responsibilities of the role are as follows Act as project technical authority during life cycle of the project. Technical responsible for producing the system logical and physical architecture and ensuring its consistency through design, integration and validation phases. Manage technical relationship with customers. Coordinate a multidisciplinary team to develop a systemproductservice, through the entire lifecycle. Capture customer needs, define technical requirements, turn them into a feasible solution by proposing an architecture. Secure development process and expenses engagement by performing early validations and refining system requirements. Ensure accuracy and consistency of engineering requirements and designs, and ability to successfully manufacture. Follow up the manufacturing process and manage technical relationship with suppliers. Demonstrate the system performance through verification and tests. Deliver the system to the customer, possibly operate. Ensure system consistency link correctly lifecycle stages, control subsystems compliance, operate tradeoffs over disciplinebased constraints, smooth interfaces between specialised engineers. Anticipate and manage transversal technical and business issues, arbitrate between solutions considering all aspects reusability, optimisation, opportunity, schedule, quality, cost, risks, safety and performance. EADS Recruitment Centre Applications should be made via the EADS website. NB all engineering roles within the EADS group are advertised for a minimum of one month to ensure maximum visibility to potential candidates. However, if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. FURTHER INFORMATION EADS is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to EADS using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by EADS. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience Educated to degree level or equivalent. Possess a proven experience of working as a Thermal Engineer within the Aerospace, Defence, Space or Nuclear industry. A proven track record of using Thermal Modelling Software. Exposure to ESATAN software and Thermica or ESARAD software would be advantageous. TO APPLY click here
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