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Product Assurance and Safety PAS Manager
2016-02-18 12:07:27| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Directorate of Technical and Quality Management The European Space Agency is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women POST Product Assurance and Safety PAS Manager in the Product Assurance and Safety Department, Directorate of Technical and Quality Management. This post is classified in the A2A4 grade band on the Coordinated Organisations salary scale. LOCATION ESTEC, Noordwijk Netherlands. DUTIES After an initial period of training and familiarisation within the PAS Department, the first assignment will be as integrated support to the HRE Quality and Safety Office HREQ to whom the postholder will report for projectspecific responsibilities and duties. For maintaining professional standards, implementing ESAs general PAS policy and contributing to corporate tasks e.g. review standardising, alerts, lessons learned, the postholder will report to the Head of Department TECQ. Support will be provided to the Utilisation Infrastructure and PayloadsExperiment Development Division HREPI, to the NonISS Payloads and Platforms Division HREUN and to other HRE divisions as deemed necessary by the head of the HRE PAS Office HREQ. For performing these tasks, support will be provided by experts from DTEC. Specific responsibilities and duties include establishing and maintaining the PAS requirements baseline, in compliance with ESAs general PAS policy guiding and monitoring implementation of PAS requirements by contractors in order to assess performanceeffectiveness, participating in design and safety reviews and directing the necessary preventive or corrective actions managing the application and procurement of Electrical, Electronic Electromechanical EEE parts, materials and processes, controlling implementation of applicable projects requirements managing ReliabilityAvailabilityMaintainabilitySafety RAMS activities, including the use of PRA methods to support design tradeoffs, analyses and reports to support project decisions, deploying integrated support staff as appropriate ensuring implementation of the software PA requirements baseline, deploying integrated support staff as appropriate managing QA activities in support of project manufacturing, integration and testing participating in project mandatory and key inspection points, test witnessing and configuration inspections managing project activities in support of formal safety reviews by the MSERP, notably reviewing contractors flight ground hazard reports prior to submission and participating in phase safety reviews supporting certification activities regarding safetyrelated ISS payload operations applications defining the formal acceptance requirement and conducting the acceptance reviews of all contractually deliverable items providing support for tracking overall implementation of PAS verification in support of project Certificate of Flight Readiness CoFR procedures and statements reviewing contractors plans, specifications and efforts proposed to execute the projects PAS programme performing, where required, PA and Quality Audits or CM inspections relating to project scope representing ESA on project boards established for reviews failure, test, etc. and for disposition of nonconformance anomalies, etc. coordinating specialist integrated and functional support for performing PAS project tasks. As general responsibilities, the postholder will support the following maintaining the HRE QMS conducting internal and external HREQ audits providing Qualityrelated training collecting and reviewing lessons learned participating in periodic meetings with the parent department and contributing to the transfer of technology knowledge and lessons learned across the Agency. QUALIFICATIONS Applicants for this post should have a Masters degree or equivalent qualification in engineering or technical sciences together with several years experience in Product Assurance and Quality Assurance, preferably in the aerospace domain. Experience with the application of industrial PA tools is required. Knowledge of configuration management or security management would be an additional asset, as would be a quality auditor or assessor certification. Candidates should have good interpersonal and communication skills. They should have the ability to work autonomously, effectively and cooperatively in a diverse and international team environment and to define and implement solutions in line with team and individual objectives and project deadlines. They should additionally have good analytical, organisational and reporting skills, a proactive attitude to problemsolving and an interest in innovative technologies. Candidates must be eligible for security clearance by their national security administration. For behavioural competencies expected from ESA staff, please refer to the ESA Competency Framework. The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these two languages is required together with a working knowledge of the other language. Knowledge of another member state language is an asset. CLOSING DATE The closing date for applications is 16 March 2016. Applications from external candidates for this position should preferably be made online at the ESA Web Site www.esa.intcareers. Those unable to apply online should submit their CV to the Head of the Human Resources Division, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk ZH The Netherlands. The Agency may require applicants to undergo selection tests. Under ESA Regulations, the age limit for recruitment is 55. Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Canada. Priority will be first given to internal candidates and secondly to external candidates from underrepresented member states. In accordance with the European Space Agencys security procedures and as part of the selection process, successful candidates will be required to undergo basic screening before appointment.
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