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Spacecraft Operations Engineer Earth ObservationSentinels Missions
2018-02-06 12:28:48| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 50,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government B2G business, specialising across five sectors Defence, Justice Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency where we are the largest onsite service provider with ca. 300 staff. For our activities in ESOC, we are currently looking for a Spacecraft Operations Engineer, assigned initially to preoperational Sentinels missions within the Earth Observation mission division i.e. not linked to Copernicus COP1 operational phases. Main Responsibilities The primary areas of responsibility for the Key person covers Spacecraft Platform Thermal, Power, TTC and Ground Operations engineering responsibilities in support to the Earth Observation missions, in prevision of the upcoming preoperational activities to be performed with the current and future Sentinels and Earth Explorers missions. The Key person will be part of the Flight Control Team FCT, to participate in the preoperational phases, including special operations i.e. LEOP, Commissioning and in testing campaigns Simulations, SVT, inflight tests. The Key person may be requested to assume the responsibility and perform activities for additional subsystems or systems within the scope of general SOE services, including test, validation and operation of the Mission Control System, Mission Planning System and Simulator. The general activities to be supported by the Key person are depending on the phase of the mission Satellite Operations Validation, test and operation of the MCS, including the Mission Planning System Validation, test and operation of the Simulator Generation, validation and maintenance of the FOP in the volumes indicated by the TR initially platform PowerThermalTTC area, but also for other subsystems Support for FOS procurement, integration and tests Participation in System Validation Tests SVT, Ground Segment Validation GSV and Training and Simulations programme Review of satellite documents Participation to preoperational activities LEOP andor Commissioning operations as required. Ground Operations Collection of information data regarding the performance of the mission and provision of inputs for mission reports Support the FCT in the configuration, setup and operation of the Sentinels NDIU CORTEX and Lite Support the FCT in the configuration, setup and operation of the Sentinels MUST and GFTS servers Routine Mission plan generation supportchecking, as required. The Key person is required to familiarise himherself with the missions heshe is supporting and in particular with the procedures and tools that are needed to perform the EO missions operations. The tasks to be performed require a considerable initiative and flexibility in executing the assigned tasks. The Ideal Candidate Essential The key person should bring Initial experience 12 years in working in an operational environment Initial experience 12 years with flight procedures life cycle, including validation Initial experience 12 years with Packet Utilisation Standard Initial experience 12 years in ground tests preparation and execution, e.g. SVTs and GSVs Good experience with office automation tools, including MSEXCEL and MSACCESS Some programming experience, possibly with Visual Basic andor SQL Initial experience 12 years with anomaly investigations at Ground Segment level Familiarity with operational simulators, ideally SimSat 12 years Familiarity with satellite control systems, ideally SCOS2000 12 years Initial experience with low Earth orbit satellites operations 12 years, ideally including experience in preparatory phase OPSPREP and special operations LEOP, simulations campaign, Commissioning Wellorganised, proactive, able to prioritise and manage several activities in parallel Capable of coordinate and interact with other service providers in operations and other fields Fluency in English, both in speech and writing. Desirables The following will be considered an asset Spacecraft Flight Operations knowledge, in particular for the PowerThermalTTC subsystems Initial experience 12 years with anomaly investigations at Spacecraft level Familiarity with Network Distribution and Interface Units or similar EGSE equipment Familiarity with MUST and GFTS Familiarity with TMTC databases, preferably SCOS2000 compatible. The closing date for applications is 150318.
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