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Meteorological Product Support
2013-09-20 20:34:21| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies. We are looking to further enhance our team by Meteosat Meteorological Product Support Consultancy You will be based initially for 2 years at our clients headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 2 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities. Your Tasks Include In general, the tasks of this Key Person will be towards the provision of support within Clients Remote Sensing and Products Division RSP to the routine monitoring and validation of satellite derived meteorological products. Within RSP, the Key Person will work in the team of the Atmospheric and Imaging Applications AIA in the group responsible for the routine product monitoring, validation and quality control, but in close interaction with the AIA scientists who are responsible for the development, maintenance and improvement of the processing algorithms. The focus of the product monitoring group is on the routine monitoring of the scientific quality of the operational products, validation of operational products, reaction to anomalies reported within this operational processing, support to the implementation process for new products or updates of existing products, and support to the necessary documentation work e.g. Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Documents, Validation Reports. The work will mainly deal with the products extracted from the series of Clients Meteosat geostationary satellites. It is expected that the tasks of the Key Person will include Support to the monitoring and validation activities of existing Meteosat algorithms and products Support to new and enhanced algorithms and products, especially in the area of product validation Preparation of technical notes and reports, notably with regard to validation reports Attendance at technical meetings as required Participation in RSPAIA team meetings Your Profile The Key Person shall have, as a prerequisite, a university degree or comparable qualifications in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics or related subjects, and a demonstrated experience of at least 3 years in the area of satellite meteorology or satellite data and products monitoring and quality control for optical imaging instruments. Furthermore, at least 3 years experience in software development in a Linux or Unix environment is required, together with at least 3 years experience in a higher programming language as e.g. Fortran90, C or C. Experience with graphics packages like IDL or Matlab would be a distinct advantage. The Key Person is required to have the experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks with a minimum of supervision. The Key Person shall also possess good interpersonal skills. The official languages are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the Key Person must be able to work effectively and have good writing skills in this language.
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