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Ground Station Maintenance Engineer fm
2013-01-08 11:38:55| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving all ESA sites, ESO, Columbus Control Centre, the German Galileo Control Centre and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on innovation. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Darmstadt, Germany we are looking for a Ground Station Maintenance Engineer fm at Eumetsat. Tasks The Consultant shall support MTP, MSG, EPS and Jason 2 Routine Operations. The Consultant shall work in the SEP Division of the TSS Department as a member of the Ground Stations team, sharing the duty according to the work load, so heshe will be expected to acquire and maintain a Systemwide view of the various Ground Stations. The tasks of the Consultant will typically include definition and maintenance of automated and paper based operational Ground Stations procedures, in accordance with the corresponding configuration management and quality assurance practices planning and scheduling of the regular ground Station maintenance activities within ongoing operational constraints interface at technical level with the maintenance service providers and coordinate the maintenance activities coordination of the investigation and rectification of anomalies reported by the operationsmaintenance team and interface with manufacturers if necessary for anomaly correction and verification attend dailyweekly operations coordination meetings and interface with operational representatives as required provision of ground station support to operations during critical mission phases, pre and post launch i.e. SVT, LEOP, IOT and contingency assisting with the preparation or evaluation of proposals, as required, for modificationsimprovements to the Ground Stations and associated equipment support the planning and scheduling of the implementation, testing and validation of these modificationsimprovements provision of training to operation teams about ground stations upgrades provision of status reports about the performance of the ground stations and associated systems maintenance of Ground stations databases provision of support to the setting up of maintenance agreementscontracts from a technical point of view Essential requirements In addition to having a University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline, the Consultant shall have at least 5 years experience in the Operations and Maintenance of Large Ground Stations andor Ground Stations EngineeringIntegration to be used either for GEO or LEO missions. The Consultant shall have experience in the following area Maintenance and operations of large ground stations including site infrastructure Operation preparation phase, focusing on creation and maintenance of automated procedures to operate large ground stations from local and remote Ground Station designintegrationtesting in particular regarding the Antenna, RF Front End, Base Band subsystems and Monitoring Control Usage of Tracking systems including Antenna Control Unit ACUTracking receivers for large antennas to acquire either LEO or GEO satellite Operation and configuration of integrated TTC baseband equipment and ranging systems e.g. INSNEC Cortex type Usage of High Data Rate Demodulators RF measurement practices and usage of related instrumentation Knowledge of modulationdemodulation schemes applied by Ground to Space ICD for TTC and payload data transmission The Consultant shall be able to conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress and must be able to work with minimum of supervision. The Consultant shall have good communications skills, to allow the effective communication of information under a variety of circumstances with the operational team. Desirable Skills Furthermore, it would be a distinct advantage for the Consultant to have experience with some of the following Commercial satellite and micro wave data links Basic knowledge of WAN, LAN and TCPIP protocol Implementation of relevant ECSS standards and CCSDS recommendations In Orbit Test I.O.T. systems and test procedures Other Information Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is mandatory Standby callout support is necessary Travel within Europe might be required Must be an EU national or possess a currently valid German Work Residence Permit Starting date is April 2013 To guarantee that your application is processed, please apply via our website httpwww.scisys.co.ukdewowirarbeitenspacekarrierespacejobs.html
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