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Support to Science Operations LISA Pathfinder
2013-07-19 14:36:21| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
A Spanish leader company in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific services with more than 45 years of experience working for NASA and 35 years working for ESA seeks a candidate for a position of Supportto Science Operations LISA Pathfinder located at ESAC Villafranca MadridSpain. LISA Pathfinder LPF is the technology demonstrator for the LISA mission and its primary goal is to demonstrate the critical technologies needed for LISA. The pay load onboard LPF will consist of the European LISA Technology Package LTP and a contribution provided by the NASAJPL, the Disturbance Reduction SystemDRS. The Science and Technology Operations Centre STOC is the point of interface to the scientific community, and is responsible for the payload scheduling, quicklook data analysis, data processing and archiving. During the operational phase of the mission extensive stays at ESOC Darmstadt, Germany may be needed. Specific tasks requirements for this position 1. Activities during the development phase a STOC system engineering The service to be provided by the Operations Engineer will entail supporting the system engineering activities of the STOC. This includes Define and maintain the toplevel system design of the Science Operations Ground Segment in the different mission phases Support the definition of the interfaces between the STOC and the MOC and the writing maintenance of the STOCMOC ICD Define the interfaces between the STOC and the LTP DRS and write the STOCLTP and STOC DRS ICDs Write the STOC Operations Plans Write the STOC Operations Procedures b STOC SW development The Operations Engineer will i monitor the development of the software modules e.g. Mission Planning, Data Ingestion, Simulator, ii be responsible of the installation of these tools and their configuration control at STOC and iii perform their acceptance tests. c STOC integration Ground Segment Tests The Operations Engineer will provide service support for the definition, preparation and execution of i the STOC integration tests, ii the Ground Segment tests SOVTs and iii the STOC Simulations. This includes Prepare test plans, test data and procedures to applied during these tests Participate in the tests, the debriefings and write the necessary test reports and raise SPRs as well as nonconformance reports as appropriate 2. Activities during the operational phase a STOC System Engineering The Operations Engineer will continue to provide service activities in operations with the activities performed during the development phase. This includes Maintenance of the interfaces between the STOC and the MOC, LTP DRS and their relevant ICDs Maintenance of the STOC Operations Plans Maintenance of the STOC Operations Procedures b STOC operational duties The Operations Engineer will be responsible for providing a service to a number of operational duties. This includes Generate the operational payload mission planning files to be sent to the MOC Monitor the data ingestion tasks that will receive the telemetry and auxiliary data from MOCs Data Disposition System Support the data archiving tasks that will populate the archive Support the investigation of payload anomalies and the implementation of the recovery c STOC SW maintenance The service provided by the Operations Engineer will cover the monitoring of the maintenance of the software modules and provide to the developers the priorities for the resolution of the software problems as seen from the users side. The service provided by the Operations Engineer will cover being responsible for the installation of these tools and their configuration control at STOC. Specific qualification requirements University degree or equivalent in related fields Experience needed in the development, testing and operations of a scientific operations centre or a similar system Experience in satellite payload operations The selected contractor must have good interpersonal and communication skills to interact with a number of external people In addition knowledge of the following would be beneficial Operations of scientific satellites and in particular of LISA Pathfinder or its payload would be an asset Applications Interested candidates should send CV and personnal letter to Miguel.Sanchezsciops.esa.int by 18th August 2013.
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