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Meteorological Product Operations Engineering Consultancy Support
2015-05-07 16:06:06| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
For one of our main customers, EUMETSAT, we are looking for a Meteorological Product Operations Engineer to work in the Technical and Scientific Support Department as a member of the Remote Sensing and Products Division RSP. The consultant will be a member of the Atmospheric Profiling Team within RSP. Hisher responsibilities will cover the monitoring and reporting of product production and product quality in close cooperation with relevant members of other teams in RSP and of the OPS Department. The support will focus on products processed from measurements of a subset of instruments embarked on the EPS Metop and the NOAA satellites. Tasks and Responsibilities Extracting relevant information from the ATOVSAVHRR EPS processing chains and Cal Val Facility CVF to perform regular production and quality monitoring reports. The reporting intervals are daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly Performing offline analysis of product quality Implementing new or revised products into the operational product processing chains Working on improvements of the existing product quality Maintaining contact with users to obtain their feedback on product service quality Elaborating, tracking and publishing service level quality indicators Reporting anomalies in product services, contributing to their diagnosis and tracking their resolution Supporting validation of new and improved products, and the compilation of the relevant product validation reports Experience and education The candidate shall have A University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline Minimum of 3 years of experience of the operational use and quality control of satellite or meteorological data. Verification of operational product processing systems Configuration control of software and data Programming in C, C and Fortran Production monitoring and reporting Quality control of satellite data and products Utilisation of products from meteorological satellites Calibration and validation of satellite products Knowledge and experience in the following areas will be an advantage Experience in the use of image processing software such as IDL or ENVI in a UNIX environment Experience in the quality control of NOAA polar satellite data, meteorological observations and Numerical Weather Prediction data Knowledge of and experience with EPS missions and instruments Experience with work under UNIXLinux operating systems Experience in the use of Scripting Languages e.g. Perl, Python, shell The consultant shall be able to conduct all activities in an orderly and structured manner, heshe shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress and must be able to work with a minimum of supervision. The activity is assumed, as a baseline, to require the fulltime participation of one Consultant for the duration of the contract. The tasks of the Consultant will be carried out mainly at EUMETSAT facilities in Darmstadt, but travel within Europe may be required for certain activities. About ATG Europe Today, ATG is recognized as a leading provider of specialized engineering, scientific and technical services to the European Aerospace, High Tech and Offshore industry. Our headquarters is located in Noordwijk, The Netherlands and we have subsidiaries in Germany and the UK. ATG People is the key player in delivering highly educated personnel for RD environments throughout Europe. We are continually recruiting experienced Engineers for exciting, full time positions based at our customers. As an ATG Engineer, you will be working on very diverse missions and assignments. This opens up unique opportunities to be engaged in innovative projects and challenging you to perform to high standards and utilizing the full extent of your professional knowledge. We need you to complement our super star team!
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