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Planning Officer
2016-09-21 14:02:55| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Thorn Sicherheits GmbH has an exciting and challenging technical position within our service team at the European Space Agency ESOC Darmstadt. This role provides candidates the opportunity to work in a hugely dynamic and scientific environment, often at the forefront of space exploration and science. The planning officer is a key member of the Thorn team and someone who will have the opportunity to engage across all ESOC supported missions science, exploration, earth observation ensuring that all stakeholders have the appropriate level of ground segment support for existing and future activities. The selected candidate shall demonstrate that they can quickly develop an advanced level understanding of the tools, applications and environment used across ESA for planning and scheduling activities. With this knowledge the selected candidate shall support the scheduling office and associated systems as the inhouse expert. They shall also have some experience of complex scheduling and of negotiating resource conflicts in order to support the long term planning process for the optimal utilisation of ESAs deep space network of ground stations. We are looking for someone who has an engineering curiosity and an insatiable desire for continual learning and knowledge someone who has the diplomatic skills to engage with all ESA stakeholders management and mission representatives, someone who can work autonomously whilst retaining a professional and positive motivation at all times. Many of the relevant applications can be configured for establishing potential scenarios so experience of working with Linux based applications would be advantageous along with a basic knowledge of scripting in a UNIX environment. Experience of working in a scientific or technical industry in a role where complex system engineering or resource conflicts are common place would be highly desirable. Closing date for this position is the 17th October 2016
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