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Ground Stations Maintenance Engineer MF
2015-12-18 13:05:15| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Telespazio VEGA Deutschland has been supporting the European Space Industry for over 30 years, including ESA, DLR, EUMETSAT and CNES. This is an opportunity for a Ground stations engineer with experience in maintenance and operations of large antennas for LEO and GEO satellites. This position is unlimited and full time and fully located on customer site EUMETSAT, Darmstadt in Germany. The earliest starting date for this position will be March 2016 and application deadline for this position will be 12th of January 2016. RESPONSIBILITIESDUTIES Support maintenance of ground stations for operations of EUMETSAT LEO and GEO programmes. The tasks of the Key person will typically include assisting with the preparation or evaluation of proposals, as required, for modificationsimprovements to the Ground Stations and associated equipment planning and scheduling of the implementation, testing and validation of these modifications improvements, and coordination of their roll out into operation planning and scheduling of the regular ground Station maintenance activities within ongoing operational constraint provision of training to operations teams about Ground stations upgrade provision of Ground Station support to operations during critical mission phases including operations preparation activities, and conducting In Orbit Test IOT as part of satellites commissioning provision of status reports about the performance of the ground stations and associated systems investigation and rectification of anomalies reported by the operationsmaintenance team provision of support to the setting up of maintenance agreements contracts from a technical point of view attend daily, weekly operations coordination meetings maintenance of automated and paper operational Ground Stations procedures interface a t technical level with the maintenance services providers Oncall callout QUALIFICATIONSEXPERIENCE Ground stations engineer with experience in maintenance and operations of large antennas for LEO and GEO satellites. ESSENTIAL SKILLS Fluency in English Engineering degree The following skills are essential Ground Station designintegrationtesting large antennas and tracking systems including Antenna Control Unit ACUTracking receivers for LEO and GEO missions TTC baseband equipment including ranging systems including of type INSNEC Cortex High Data Rate Demodulators maintenance and operations of large ground stations including site infrastructure Local and remote Monitoring Control of large ground station and related databases and automated procedures In Orbit Test IOT systems. DESIRABLE SKILLS Some experience in the following will be useful Commercial satellite and micro wave data links basic knowledge of WAN, LAN and TCPIP protocol the principals of power generation in the areas of Unintenuptable Power Supplies and backup generator functions timing systems, GPS IV V of ground station systems within a 247 operational environment BENEFITS Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including 30 days holiday, generous training possibilities and Telespazio VEGA Deutschland pension scheme is offered to the successful candidate. APPLICATION You are looking for a challenging position in a very interesting, international environment? Then you should send your detailed application preferably online with your availability and current salary status.
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