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Programme Engineering Coordinator for Education
2021-04-01 12:12:26| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support to ESA in the domain of ECO Communication, Education and Marketing in the ESA Academy Unit. Happiness of our employees has proven key to obtaining excellent results and a client who also regards us highly for excellent service. Overview The post focuses on the coordination of handson activities and experiments for university students related to microgravity and hypergravity platforms. In cooperation with the facility operators, and with other professional specialists, the postholder will support the selection of experiments proposed by university student teams, and will followup their projects throughout their lifecycle concept, design, development, testing, experiment campaign, data analysis, both from a programmatic and engineering viewpoint. The set of programmes includes Drop Your Thesis, Spin Your Thesis, Fly Your Thesis, Spin Your Thesis Human and Orbit Your Thesis. Occasional support for other ESA Academy activities, including deliverydevelopment of training courses may also be required. Specific Tasks will include ensuring the proper coordination of the programmes ESA Academys handson space projects throughout all phases of their lifecycle from the call for proposals, the development phase, up to and including launch, mission operations, and postflight activities including Support the preparation and the publication of the Call for Proposals for the student projects, the review and the evaluation of the proposals, and the projects selection process. Liaise with the partners andor with the organisations which are involved in the conduct of the student handson project universities, space agencies, industries, or other associations, and ESA colleagues. Liaise with the student teams involved in the ESA Academys handson space projects, to ensure they receive the due financial or logistics support. Coordinate the technical supervision of the student projects with the support of professional specialists from ESA and the other partners, as available, to ensure compliance to requirements, applicable standards, and good space engineering practice. Supervise the preparation and conduct of project meetings, project reviews, test campaigns, and of workshops or conferences. Assist Young Graduate Trainees assigned to the programmes in subject. Specific Qualification requirements University engineering degree MSc in Space Systems Engineering and at least 4 years of relevant experience. Well organised, shall be able to show good spirit of initiative, and shall own good skills and experience in the management of space projects shall have good skills to coordinate effectively work contributions from several different parties, and shall possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders ESA, the involved international partners, industry, academia and students. Knowledge of the university student programmes conducted by ESAs Education Office is an asset. Have excellent communication skills. Proficient in the English Language Spoken and Written. Legal and Security Requirements All applicants must be legally allowed to work in The Netherlands Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA. Prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident. Location The work will be performed at the European Space Technology and Research Centre ESTEC at Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Contract The selected candidate will receive good remuneration in line with ESA Job Class. Will be registered for both social security and tax in the Netherlands. The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday. Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included. Aurora assist with relocation both with support and financially. Aurora contributes to a company pension scheme. To be considered for this Position Prior to 27 April 2021, please apply via our Job Application form quoting ECODG79 RTCDGPET00079 as reference. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting them by 29 April 2021, 13.00 hours.
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