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Senior Mission Concepts Engineer
2015-04-02 18:05:18| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
One of our space clients in the UK is looking for a Mission Concepts Team Leader the engineer is responsible for leading 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 Lead studies, bid activities, and the internal development of new concepts for all types of space missions to support our client and their Business Line strategies. Key Tasks To work as part of a team and to lead mission design activities to support 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. Generate a set of required enabling technologies to be developed, for input into client technology roadmaps. Studies Lead studies into future concepts for a wide variety of customers and institutions, including the European Space Agency. Manage studies to meet technical requirements, cost and schedule. Deliver technical outputs of studies in the form of high quality technical reports and presentations 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. Manage and contribute to both technical and management inputs study bids for a variety of customers and institutions, including ESA. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Qualifications A good 1st degree or suitable includes vocational training equivalent in Engineering, Physics or Maths. Experience Space mission design to the subsystem level covering space and ground segments starting from end user requirements. The experience should cover a range of mission types including Telecomms and Earth Observation. Managing, and technically leading, space mission design studies and proposal. Space mission analysis for a range of mission types. Knowledge and Skills Excellent technical writing and presentation generating and delivering skills. Good knowledge of orbit analysis, system budgets, operations, ground segment, space environment and satellite mechanical and electrical architectures. Good knowledge of a wide range of satellite applications. Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales. Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Excellent Knowledge of STK and Matlab or equivalent analysis tools.
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