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Spacecraft Operations Engineer ExoMars TTC, communications, Mars data relay operations mf

2014-07-29 16:42:43| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Spacecraft Operations Engineer ExoMars TTC, communications, Mars data relay operations mf The Mission ExoMars is the European mission to characterise the biological and geochemical environment on Mars in preparation for future robotic missions and human exploration. The mission foresees an ESA provided orbiter in 2016 and a Rover in 2018. The Orbiter will be launched in 2016. Following a 9 months cruise it will go into Mars Orbit and perform an initial orbital science phase for one Martian year. Subsequently the orbiter will be the prime source for relay communications for the 2018 Rover and following missions. The Rover Mission will be launched in 2018, transported and deployed to the surface of Mars by NASA provided assets. The Orbiter will be operated from ESOC in Darmstadt, while the Rover will be operated by remote centres under ESAs responsibility. ESOC will also be responsible for the overall mission coordination and communications. The spacecraft control system will be based on SCOS2000 with the support from the ESA and NASA deep space ground station network. More information on ESAs ExoMars missions can be found here httpexploration.esa.intmars. The Challenge We are looking for a skilled Spacecraft Operations Engineer to be part of the team providing spacecraft operations engineering services to the Solar and Planetary Missions Division of ESAESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, with initial assignment to the ExoMars 2016 mission. Initially, the main areas of responsibility for this position are TTC, Communications and Data Relay platform subsystems Preparation, validation and maintenance of the internal and external interfaces for Mars data relay operations. This is a full time position, located at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, starting in January 2015. Your Qualifications Applicants shall have an university degree, preferably in aerospace, electronics or physics or other suitable qualification. Essential skills are Previous experience in spacecraft platform subsystem operations Operational experience with interplanetary missions Understanding of spacecraft Flight Control Team tasks and responsibilities, both pre and postlaunch Fluency in English, both in speech and writing Ability to coordinate and interact with other service providers in operations and other fields Ability to work independently with little or no supervision. Desirable skills are Strong educational background in an engineering or science discipline Handson experience with ground systems and facilities required to support spacecraft operations Familiarity with the ESOC environment Operational experience with TTC subsystems, space data relay and indirect spacecraft operations concepts Previous experience with mission planning processes The ability to multitask efficiently working on multiple activities, multiple subsystems and if applicable multiple missions simultaneously. You may also be requested to take responsibility and perform activities for additional spacecraft subsystems or systems within the scope of spacecraft operations engineering. Working time is normal office hours, with the engineer providing oncall support outside normal working hours. Occasional travel within Europe may be required. Terma offers At Terma, we consider skilled employees, enthusiasm and job satisfaction as the very foundation of our success and as a prerequisite for the development of the bestinclass solutions that Terma provides. We lead the way in applying new technology, offering a wide range of growth opportunities for each individual and emphasizing mutual respect across the board in our workplace. Terma offers you a pleasant working environment at the customer site, where you will be able to take on challenging tasks and responsibilities in a highly professional company. Great opportunities for training and personal development Challenges in advanced technical environment International and cosmopolitan working atmosphere An employment contract with an attractive package with extralegal benefits Highly competitive salary. Recruitment is depending on successful selection by the customer. Further information For further information, please contact Mr. Kevin Davies by telephone 49 6151 860050 or by email terma.determa.com. To ensure that your application will reach us and is properly processed we would prefer that you apply through the link httpswww.epos.dkRekTermaJoblistShowJobOffer.aspx?dbaliasEposRECTermalangenjobOfferEntityId508joblistId1 with a Cover Letter explaining your background and expertise, as well as your earliest date of availability, and a uptodate Curriculum Vitae. Closing date September 10th, 2014 Please note that applicants must hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Terma develops products and systems for defense, civilian authorities, and security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, selfprotection systems for vessels and aircraft, space technology, and advanced aerostructures for the aircraft industry. Terma is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, and maintains international subsidiaries and operations in The Netherlands, Germany, India, Singapore, and the U.S. Sign up for Termas newsletter here or follow Terma to remain updated on our news and events

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ExoMars Spacecraft Operations Engineer TTC, Communications and Data Relay

2014-07-18 12:41:27| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland has been supporting the European Space Industry for over 30 years, including ESA, DLR, EUMETSAT and CNES. This is a regular opportunity for experienced Engineers to work in the domain of satellite operations operations preparations in our premises in Darmstadt. This position is part of a Spacecraft Operations Engineering service to be provided to the Solar and Planetary Missions Division, with initial assignment to the ExoMars mission. This is a permanent position to work 100 on customer side in ESOC. The position should start 1st of January 2015 and the submission deadline for applicants will be the 8st of September 2014 RESPONSIBILITIESDUTIES Initially, the main areas of responsibility for this service are platform subsystems TTC, communications and Data Relay preparation, validation and maintenance of the internal and external interfaces for Mars data relay operations. The service provider may be requested to assume the responsibility and perform activities for additional subsystems or systems within the scope of general SOE services. QUALIFICATIONSEXPERIENCE A degree qualified engineer with experience in Spacecraft Operations to join the existing Telespazio VEGA operations team at ESOC. ESSENTIAL SKILLS Previous experience in spacecraft platform subsystem operations Operational experience with interplanetary missions Understanding of Flight Control Team tasks and responsibilities pre and postlaunch Fluency in English, both in speech and writing Ability to coordinate and interact with other service providers in operations and other fields. Ability to work independently with little or no supervision. DESIRABLE SKILLS Strong educational background in engineering or science Handson experience with ground systems and facilities required to support spacecraft operations Familiarity with the ESOC environment Operational experience with TTC subsystems, data relay indirect operations concepts Previous experience with mission planning processes The ability to multitask efficiently working on multiple activities, multiple subsystems and if applicable multiple missions simultaneously. BENEFITS Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including 30 days holiday, generous training possibilities and Telespazio VEGA Deutschland pension scheme is offered to the successful candidate. APPLICATION You are looking for a challenging position in a very interesting, international environment? Then you should send your detailed application preferably online with your availability and current salary status.

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Senior Communications Engineer

2014-05-15 12:39:50| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Dear Sir or Madam, We are currently in search of support for the following project. This position is available on a permanent basis. POSITION ID 2161 ROLE FUNCTION Senior Communications Engineer in Darmstadt Germany GENERAL CONDITIONS START 2015 LOCATION Darmstadt TYPE OF BUSINESS Science CONTRACT fulltime employment WORKING LANGUAGE English, French is considered an advantage TASKS The Communication Engineer shall support the operations and maintenance of the network infrastructure and services of the Copernicus Sentinel3 Ground Segment. The Communication Engineer shall carry out the handling and the troubleshooting of the network systems and services anomaly. The CE shall be in charge of the operating, administrating and maintaining thirdparty provided network services. He shall also monitor and report the performance of the network infrastructure and systems, including thirdparty provided network services, and the quality of the services delivered to the users PROFILE The consultant should have the following background At least 5 years of proven knowledge and handson experience in several of the following mandatory skills areas Network fault detection, analysis, troubleshooting, fixing, Cisco technology based network solutions. It will be considered beneficial if the Communication Engineer holds a current Cisco certification or is able to substantiate equivalent experience. Network equipment Operating System OS Network equipment installation, configuration and testing. Operations and service management with external suppliers and providers of network products and services within a production environment, including interacting with external providers on upgrades, evolutions etc. Technical authoring and maintenance of network diagrams Visio. For more Details about the Tasks, please feel free to contact Mr. Gustavo Gomez Recruitment Associate

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Communications engineer for satellite project mf

2014-03-24 13:40:30| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Your Tasks Creation of communication concepts Specification of the radio data transmission system System integration and validation at operational conditions Implementation of the concepts into systems hardware software Coordination with customers and subcontractors Presentation of the results Your Profile Degree in communications engineering or equivalent Several years of experience in transmission and system technology Experience in simulation and hardware development programmes Relevant experience in radio frequencies and antenna techology and in digital and and analog development Ability to work independently and as part of a team Fluency in English language Our offer Long term personal development plan Permanent position Attractive packaging and conditions Groupwide mobility programme

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Network Communications Engineer multiple positions

2014-01-23 21:38:06| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies. We are looking to further enhance our team by Network infrastructure, services and solutions delivery, support, operations and maintenance You will be based initially for 2 years at our clients headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 2 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities. Your Tasks Include In providing support to delivering, supporting, operating and maintaining the network infrastructure, services and solutions provided for current and emerging operational networks, the key person shall be required to carry out the following tasks Delivery of network solutions and services that form part of a solutions portfolio. Identification and selection of the optimal solution or service for a customer request. Elaborating the detail of the solution or service for the given circumstances. Presentation, discussion and agreement of the solution or service with peers and customers. Planning and scheduling of rollout with peers and customers. Rollout installation, configuration, testing of network solution and services in coordination with peers and customers. Provision of support to customer validation and nonregression testing. Support to deployments of network infrastructure and services, resulting from large development activities. Use the network lab for proofofconcept and predeployment testing. Rollout installation, configuration, testing of network infrastructure or services. Provide operations, administration and maintenance OAM support to rolled out network infrastructure and services. Network systems and services anomaly handling and troubleshooting. Perform 1st line examination, analysis and debugging, upon suspected network anomalies, typically detected as part of monitoring activities. Raise anomaly reports. Respond to Operations department customers reporting network problems and provide 1st level support them in their troubleshooting, with provision of standbyoncall support following an agreed rota. Perform all aspects of 2nd line, expertlevel network troubleshooting debugging and diagnosing, rootcause analysis, implementation of shortterm workaround, implementation of longterm resolution. Perform backtrack analysis and interpretation of historical log data supporting analysis of reported problemsrequests Support to the delivery of thirdparty provided network services. Supervise and interact with Service Providers upon rollout of new or upgraded services. Cooperate with partner organisations and remote locations on the delivery and support of network connectivity and services between Client and the partner organisations or remote sites. Support specification and procurement of thirdparty provided network services. Contribute to specifications of tender documents, e.g. Statements of WorkRequirements specifications, and evaluation of offer documents, e.g. Technical Proposals, Service Level Agreements SLAs. Operating, administrating and maintaining thirdparty provided network services. Monitor, evaluate and assure provider service performance and quality. Review Service Provider reporting. Perform periodic reviews of Provider service quality and performance. Upon service outages affecting the committed service levels, followup and closeout provider actions in cooperation with Operations. Initiate and followup escalation procedures, if and as required. Maintain SLAs during service periods in cooperation with the Service Provider. Negotiate Service Provider activities impacting operations e.g. planned maintenance with the Service Provider and Operations. Announce the Service Provider activities to the Operations planning and scheduling activities. Cooperate and coordinate with providers of network equipment maintenance support on interventions and on maintaining and updating lists of equipment. Monitoring and reporting of the performance of the network infrastructure and systems, including thirdparty provided network services, and the quality of the services delivered to the users. Perform regular routine health checks of the instantaneous status of network infrastructure and systems. Check for events, warnings and alarms raised since the previous check. Perform regular checks of the load and usage of network systems. Monitor load and usage over time and extract trends. Perform regular checks of the performance of network systems, typically using scheduled and automated tools. Monitor the performance over time and extract trends. Correlate the network performance and services quality, in particular with load and usage of network systems versus the performance delivered. Correlate the instantaneous health, load and performance checks and extracted trends with committed network service levels and quality. Detect and report if thresholds have been exceeded and flag the need to initiate network capacity and performance upgrade activities. Propose and initiate enhancements in network performance and service quality monitoring, e.g. in organising the monitoring of the network infrastructure, systems and services, in defining new network performance benchmarks, etc. Using tools available on the network monitoring and control system, extract data from the monitoring logs, and compile regular trends and statistics reports on network performance and service quality shortterm daily, midterm weekly, monthly and longterm. Make available and stage these reports on a routine basis. Analyse network performance and service quality reports and proactively identify the need for upgrading or enhancing the network to maintain to committed performance and service levels over time. Propose and initiate enhancements in network reporting. Operating, administrating and maintaining internal network systems and services. Record and maintain the allocation of IP host addresses and network address ranges. Record and maintain the allocation of VLANs, VRFs, NATs, etc. Generate and maintain tools, e.g. scripts, running on the network monitoring and control system to extract data from the monitoring logs. Maintain configuration history of all network equipment. Support the network systems and services operations and management processes and documentation. Maintain and contribute to the network operations and management documentation and knowledge base. Specify and author operations and management guides and procedures Network training Provide training on network system and services, e.g. to internal Operations department customers Key tasks The key tasks to be accomplished under this contract will include, but are not limited to At Client HQ, contribute to the migration of customer networks from legacy to consolidated network infrastructure. Support obsolescence andor performance upgrades of the Client networks in remote sites, incl. Madrid, Suitland, Md US, Longyearbyen, Svalbard Norway, Fucino Italy as well as of the WAN links connecting the remote sites to the Client HQ. Support the migration from legacy VLS systems to a common consolidated infrastructure. Operate, administer and maintain the network systems and services as they are currently in place. Integrate newly introduced and emerging network infrastructure, systems and related services into the existing network systems and services operations, administration and management e.g. a campus backbone, a data centre network, a control center operators terminal network. Specify and author operations, administration and maintenance guides and procedures covering the newly introduced and emerging network infrastructure, systems and related services. Taking into account the current and emerging network infrastructure, assess, review and propose enhancements to the network systems and services operations, administration and maintenance processes, documentation, platforms and tools. Lead andor support activities implementing the agreed enhancements. Take on the planning, organisation and supervision of activities carried out by current WAN service providers on Clients behalf. Coordinate and support the delivery and upgrade of managed network services between EUMHQ and remote sites. Roles and responsibilities Carrying out the above tasks entails assuming responsibility, at the technical and coordination level, of the specification, planning, preparation, presentation, execution and reporting on those activities. Critical activities will typically be executed by small teams, where depending on hisher expertise and background, the key person shall be able to assume both the leading key engineer as well as the support role. The Contractor shall assume specifically the following roles and responsibilities Liaison and 1st line Point of Contact PoC to Operations department customers and users, responsible for all aspects of network service quality and performance and 1st line support matters. Liaison and 2nd line PoC to Operations department customers, responsible for all aspects of the infrastructure and solution delivery and support to be carried out. o Assume ownership of network solutions portfolio visavis the customers. o Assume ownership of customer satisfaction and feedback with regards to provided network solutions. Coordinator of network deployment activities. Liaison and PoC within the Comms team, responsible for representing Operations users needs and constraints, and safeguarding these on the production network systems, services and infrastructure. Liaison and PoC to peers in other IT support teams involved in delivering and supporting the IT infrastructure, and providing operational services and solutions. Liaison and PoC to Suppliers and thirdparty Service Providers, responsible for o third partysupplied service quality and performance o coordination of Service Provider rollout or upgrade activities with Operations customers o obtaining suppliers experts support for advanced cases of network troubleshooting. Ownership of network performance and service quality delivered on the network infrastructure and systems. Ownership of anomaly resolution, by followthrough and coordination of all actions required to get problems solved. The tasks assigned to the key person will be agreed through dedicated workpackages with clear identification of activities and outputs expected. In the performance of these tasks, the key person shall apply the Client configuration and change control procedures as well as the relevant system engineering standards, quality management procedures and maintenance procedures. The key person is expected to communicate verbally and in writing and generate and maintain documentation as an essential part of the tasks above. This may comprise writing and reviewing change proposals, preparing documents supporting procurements, reviewing data packages belonging to technical inspections and reviews, writingreviewing test reports and overall status reports. Your Profile Hard skills, experience knowledge In addition to having a university degree or equivalent, the key person shall have at least 5 years of proven knowledge and handson experience in several of the following mandatory skills areas a minimum of 6 are expected Advanced fault detection, analysis, troubleshooting, fixing, working with equipment suppliers to obtain support. Experience of using network monitoring and troubleshooting tools and methods real time and historical for carrying out the tasks described above. Experience of creating and maintaining a version management tool for network software and configuration data, such as rancid. Experience of creating and maintaining network monitoring and troubleshooting tools realtime and historical for carrying out the tasks described above, such as nagios, syslogng, snmp and MIB access. Experience of dealing on aspects of operations and service management with external suppliers and providers of network products and services within a production environment, including interacting with external providers on upgrades, evolutions etc. Understanding and experience of applying concepts and principles of service quality and service management in operational environments. Indepth knowledge of Cisco technology based network solutions. It will be considered beneficial if the key person holds a current Cisco certification or is able to substantiate equivalent experience. Network equipment Operating System OS indepth knowledge OS installation and upgrade, CLI syntax. Experience of network equipment installation, configuration and testing. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing on network portfolio solutions and services in a comprehensible way. Ability to translate IT jargon into customer business terms. Demonstrated capability of technical authoring, and of creating and working with technical network diagrams Visio. Experience of working in and applying the above skills in highavailability, alwayson production environments, driven by high availability requirements. For supporting documentation tasks, experience is required with Microsoft Office Suite, including MSVisio. The variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported require a high degree of autonomy and good analytical skills. The key person shall be able to conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress and must be able to work with a minimum of supervision. The official languages are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language. Role Competency The key person shall possess the following skills Teamwork Integrity Share expertise and experience with other team members provide crosstraining and support. Work in teams of 2 for critical changes to production systems 4eyes principle Value and respect other opinions, treat others fairly, with integrity and encourage participation. Accept criticism positively and be willing to adapt and change habitual methods of working. Planning and Organisation Prepare in advance and in detail critical activities, to be shared for review and approval prior to the actual execution of the work. Coordinate and communicate activities with key stakeholders users, suppliers, QA, CM Problem Solving Innovation Take ownership of problems through to effective resolution. Develop initiatives to resolve underlying issues that go beyond the immediate problem. Take steps to minimise risks. Communication Possess excellent verbal and written communications skills and be confident to deal with a wide variety of people and to influence at all levels. Be an empathetic communicator and be able to see things from the other persons perspective and demonstrate effective listening skills. Have excellent presentation and training skills with the ability to deliver a message such that it generates learning and understanding. Customer Focus Orientation Value our customers, anticipate and understand their needs and request feedback, strive to achieve excellence and to improve customer satisfaction. Recognise and act expeditiously on opportunities to improve service, liaising with relevant internal teams to ensure tasks are acted upon. Adapt approach and solutions to meet customer requirements. For more detailed information about MOLTEK go to httpwww.moltek.com

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