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EGNOS Services Department Traineeship
2020-03-23 20:15:45| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
GSA AND EGNOS SERVICES DEPARTMENT The European GNSS Agency GSA announces a traineeship opportunity for European students and recent graduates. The GSA is responsible for the operations and service provision of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems GNSS EGNOS and Galileo. The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service EGNOS is Europes regional satellitebased augmentation system SBAS that is used to improve the performance of global navigation satellite systems, such as GPS and Galileo. It has been deployed to provide safety of life navigation services to aviation, maritime and landbased users over most of Europe. In addition to geostationary satellites, the EGNOS infrastructure is composed of uplink stations, processors, reference stations, control centres and support facilities, within Europe and nearby. TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Applications for Toulouse Contribute to followup activities of EGNOS operations and maintenance in general and contribute to the System obsolescence assessment in particular Contribute to review the EGNOS service provision performance in general and to track performance against the GSAs Key Performance Indicators in particular Applications for Prague Contribute to the understanding of user requirements in using EGNOS for new transport modes or applications with the objective to improve EGNOS services or develop new ones Contribute to the definition of technical feasibility studies that assess how user requirements can be implemented and to validation activities that ensure that the service developed meets user requirements Support the team activities, notably for the preparation of meetings with industrial contractors, the management of technical documentation and the interface with EGNOS stakeholders ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA The traineeship is open to applicants who have not previously undertaken a traineeship at the GSA and who meet the following requirements Have a nationality of any Member State of the European Union or Norway Possess or pursue a recognised higher education degree university education or equivalent, evidencing completion of a full cycle of study, or in the case of candidates who are at the end of their studies, an official attestation from their university or school stating the marks obtained Have an initial experience or specific expertise in one of the areas of work of the Agency obtained either through specialisation as part of the applicants studies for a university degree, a dissertation or other research project conducted as part of their studies or through professional experience or a previous traineeship Possess a thorough knowledge of one official language of the European Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another language of the European Union one of these languages must be the working language of the Agency English Have a clean criminal record SELECTION CRITERIA The applications will be assessed against the following criteria Education or work experience in the area of satellite navigation systems or service engineering Knowledge of the principles of system engineering Experience of multicultural environments, ideally through previous work experience or study abroad Effective communication skills, including the ability to summarise information Structured approach in solving problems Good organisation skills Proactive attitude to carry out tasks towards their completion APPLICATION PROCEDURE In order to be considered for this position, candidates need to create an account by registering via the GSA erecruitment tool. Only applications submitted via the erecruitment tool will be accepted. Applications sent via email or post will not be taken into consideration. A full job description and further information on the application procedure can be found here httpsvacancies.gsa.europa.euJobsVacancyDetails1378 The GSAs systems support the most commonly used Internet browsers. If you encounter issues, please consider changing the browser first before contacting us.
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