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Simulations Officer
2015-02-03 12:06:18| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Thorn SDS is seeking a Simulations Officer to be responsible for developing the training concept and the associated Simulation Plan to train the Mission Control Team, in order to prepare them for the launch or other critical phases of a mission. The key candidate will be accountable for planning and developing failure cases of increasing difficulty to be introduced into the simulations, in order to train the Mission Control Team in nonnominal operations and application of mission rules. The key candidate shall also be involved with the operational training of other staff. All applicants require familiarisation with both the space and ground segment. For a particular mission, the Prime Simulations Officer is responsible for the delivery of training to the Mission Control Team, supported by a Deputy Simulations Officer. The Deputy Simulations Officer is responsible for supporting the prime Simulations Officer in the delivery of training. This includes assistance with simulator breakpoint preparation, testing of contingencies, writing briefing and debriefing messages, and running simulations. The successful candidate shall have good spacecraft knowledge on a subsystem level, experience working within an operational environment along with the ability to understand and accurately predict the behaviour of complex systems. Candidates will have familiarity with operational training, operational simulations ideally simsat, satellite control systems ideally SCOS2000 and programmingscripting languages e.g. C, Java, JavaScript. Due to the high security levels associated with this role all applicants will need to be European citizens. Applicants must be fluent in English, both spoken and written. Experience in any of the following areas would be considered advantageous Operational training, prelaunch activities and launch campaigns, instructional design methodologies and prelaunch activities and launch campaigns. Familiarity with the ESOC working environment and Quality Management System QMS along with knowledge of operations would also be considered to be advantageous. This role will typically require travel for oneweek long missions to CNES, Toulouse, France every 23 weeks, over a period of 2 months. Then after the position will mainly be based in Darmstadt. Thorn SDS has a long standing relationship with ESOC, an element of this position will involve the training of existing Thorn employees.
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