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Mission Concepts Engineer
2015-04-02 18:05:18| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
One of our UK Space clients is looking for a Mission Concepts Team Leader Responsible for contributing to mission and top level system design for a range of space missions including Earth Observation, Science and Exploration, In Orbit Services, Telecomms and Navigation. Key Purpose of Job Participate in studies, bid activities, and the internal development of new concepts for all types of space missions to support the client Business Line strategies. Key Tasks To work as part of a team to support mission design activities covering the following areas New Mission Concepts. Work with Principal Investigators, Heads of Business, Business Development team and RD project teams to identify and develop new mission concepts. Perform requirements capture and subsequent development of the mission concept solution covering space, ground and user segment implementation. Perform design activities with the focus on a cost engineered solution and with appropriate challenging of requirements to develop solutions with a high performancecost ratio. Perform the required mission analysis to verify integrity of solutions. Assist with identifying a set of required enabling technologies to be developed, for input into client technology roadmaps. Studies Provide support to studies into future satellite concepts for a wide variety of customers and institutions, including the European Space Agency. Provide inputs to technical reports and presentations for delivery to customers. Bids Work with the Heads of Business, Business Development team and Engineering teams to support bid activities to generate cost effective technical solutions. Contribute to study bids for a variety of customers and institutions, including ESA. Qualifications A good 1st degree or suitable includes vocational training equivalent in Engineering, Physics or Maths. Experience Space mission design, starting from end user requirements, including identification of key subsystems. The experience should ideally cover a range of mission types including Telecomms and Earth Observation. Space mission analysis for a range of mission types Knowledge and Skills Technical writing and presentation skills. Good knowledge of orbit analysis, system budgets, operations, ground segment and space environment. Good knowledge of a wide range of satellite applications. Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales. Good knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Good Knowledge of STK and Matlab or equivalent analysis tools.
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