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Meteorological Product Operations Engineering Consultancy Support
2015-05-08 17:06:09| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
ACS is looking for a Meteorological Product Operations Engineer. ACS has more than 30 years experience in delivering solutions for Earth Observation satellites Ground Segments. Based in Rome, Italy and in Darmstadt, Germany, we delivered systems currently in operation in 20 countries worldwide and have a long record of successful projects carried out for ESA, EUMETSAT, EMSA and many other Space Agencies and Research Centres. ACS recently established German subsidiary ACSD aims at better serving our customers based in Darmstadt area. ACS offers pleasant, international working environment at customer site very competitive salary attractive benefit package tailored on specific exigencies training and personal growth within ACS group, full support from a high technology company for relocation to Darmstadt. TASKS 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 MANDATORY SKILLS University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline A minimum of 3 year experience of the operational use and quality control of satellite or meteorological data Able to conduct all activities in an orderly and structured manner, able to work calmly and correctly under stress and with a minimum of supervision The consultant must be able to work effectively in English and have knowledge of French Good skills in writing in English Good communication skills Experience in Verification of operational product processing systems Experience in Configuration control of software and data Experience in Programming in C, C and Fortran Experience in Production monitoring and reporting Experience in Quality control of satellite data and products Experience in Utilisation of products from meteorological satellites Experience in 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 Additionally EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass editable format
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