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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
2015-06-09 18:07:01| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving all ESA sites and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on innovation. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Darmstadt Germany we are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at EUMETSAT. Tasks The Key Person will be part of the GEO QA Team which provides support to the GEO Programmes MTG and MSG. Herhis tasks will be allocated in support of the MTG Ground Segment activities, in particular in support of mission operations systems, in accordance with the plan and priorities assigned by the GEO QA Programme Manager and the MTG GS QA Engineer in closed coordination with the MTG and MSG Management level of the area of activities where the Key Person is allocated. In this framework, the main tasks of the Key Person will include the following Implement EUMETSAT QA policies in the assigned areas, in accordance with the MTG and MSG System QA plans and all relevant applicable Standards, Technical and QA documents, Procedures and Working Practices that are applicable to the ongoing projects phases Ensure that the assigned MTG and MSG processes are implemented in accordance with their relevant QA working practices and procedures Support maintenance of GEO QA Working Practices and procedures suggest and support the establishment of improvements of the available QA documentation, aiming at process efficiency and synergy Support the establishment of metrics to measure the effectiveness of the main processes within the assigned areas. Provide proactive suggestions for process improvement, based on these metrics and other observations Work with and in support of the MTG Ground Segment Teams and of the MSG Operations Preparations Team, in order to ensure that Quality Assurance policies and methods are taken into account during all involved lifecycle phases Provide dedicated QA support to the production of the technical and programmatic documents relevant to the MTG Programme, MTG Ground Segment and its facilities and elements Critically review technical and management documents issued in support to the MTG GS Facilities procurement Support, as Review secretary, the Programme Reviews and Check Points planned for MTG and MSG, ensuring that the relevant Organisation Note arrangements are correctly implemented, and that the support tool to be used for the Reviews is properly configured and available Support the MTG GS Facilities procurement activities and the connected processes, ensuring that the applicable QA requirements are correctly implemented Support QA activities during the Facilities development and production process, interfacing with the EUMETSAT Technical Officers, the relevant crossdivisional EUMETSAT Teams and with the Industry Quality Assurance QAProduct Assurance PA counterparts Support monitoring of the implementation of the agreed QA Plans and procedures within the Industry and others Organisations including ESA activities, including Subtiers Support coordination of the anomaly and nonconformances review process in the assigned areas Support the preparation and conduct of QA audits on Industry and within EUMETSAT in the areas connected with MTG GS activities, in line with the MTG GS Contractors Suppliers Quality Assurance Audit Plan Support regular reporting to the MTG GS QA Engineer, to the GEO QA Manager, and to GS Manager concerned on all QA aspects related to MTG GS and MSG4 activities Attend and support weekly GEO QA Team coordination meetings and programme meetings if so required. Essential requirements The Key Person is required to have the skills, capability and experience level adequate to ensure the fulfilment with a high degree of autonomy of the tasks indicated in Section 3. A University degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Sciences or a related discipline is required. The Key Person shall have at least 10 years of specific experience in Quality and Product Assurance QAPAin AerospaceSpace Programmes, and have good interpersonal and mediation skills. Specific experience on QAPA processes on satellite Ground Segments, satellite Mission Control and Operations is required, and experience on Satellite data processing will be considered an advantage. For the fulfilment of the tasks listed in Section 3, candidates shall be in possession of the following mandatory skills Significant handson experience in QAPA processes definition, implementation, monitoring and control, and QAPA performance metrics Knowledge and application of aerospacespace Product and Quality Assurance standards Knowledge of and experience in applying ISO 9001 Standards Multiyear experience in the implementation of QA policies and methods in procurement contracts for complex products such as ground segment systems. Experience in providing QA support to SW products throughout their complete development lifecycle. Experience in following HWSW products integration and verification Significant handson experience in using Microsoft Office Suite. Capability of producing and releasing in autonomy Minutes of Meetings and QA reports Experience in application of risk management and lessons learned processes Desirable requirements The following skills are considered an advantage Knowledge of requirement management tools, e.g. DOORS Experience of working in programmes involving different partners Previous experience in related developments Other Information Start date is September 2015 Fluency in English is mandatory The candidate must have a valid German work and residence permit or be an EU Citizen To ensure your application please apply online at httpwww.scisys.dewowirarbeitenspacekarrierespacejobs.html
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