To support the growth of our company at the European Astronautical Center in Cologne (Germany) we are looking for a Crew Operations Support Engineer who will provide engineering support to the project teams for the definition and control of the engineering baseline in multilateral programs implemented in collaboration with other international partner and Space Agencies.
DUTIES
In this role, you will:
- Support to the day-to-day monitoring of the activities of the involved Industrial Contractor(s), review of technical documentation, and daily discussions with Participating Agencies, for instance, NASA, CSA, and JAXA;
- Control that the engineering baseline is in line with the Programme as well as with the ESA requirements during the whole project lifetime:
- Ensure that program requirements are correctly flown down into element, subsystem, and equipment level requirements and safeguard their consistent tracking;
- Maintain the DOORS Database instances and related links to the other tools;
- Support the definition and planning of element and program verification activities to be executed jointly by international partner agencies;
- Support to Project Working Groups and Boards;
- Review of Industry Specification(s) at all levels;
- Support ESA internal Engineering Control Board (ECB), Change Control Board (CCB), MRBs, TRR/PTRs, VCB, and other meetings as per team leader request;
- Support to project reviews (e.g. PDRs, CDRs, QRs, ARs, and others);
- Support MBSE and IT set-up and implementation activities.
- Support the ESA project manager by keeping under control the contracted engineering baseline.
- Anticipate engineering changes to the baseline and enable technical discussions with industry, project, and program experts.
- Keep the CFI/GFE list up-to-date, and in line with the multilateral exchange agreements for hardware, software, data, and information.
- Support the preparation, release, and maintenance of the Multilateral documentation and the tracking of Data and CFI/GFE exchanges, in accordance with multinational agreements between the international partner Agencies.
- Maintain CFI/GFE content and planning data, consistent with project needs.
- Support audits and suppliers’ assessments.
- Support the NC review boards, conducting root-cause and extent analyses, and contributing to the definition of action plans.
- Support the Engineering and Baseline, Verification, and AIT Team Leaders of the project in the execution of their tasks.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- Master in Aerospace Engineering or another relevant discipline, combined with at least 4 years of relevant experience.
- Fluent in English, both spoken and written.
- Proven experience with design and development in human spaceflight projects.
- High Operational Efficiency and proven results in the area of relationship management and efficiency in cooperation with various customer(s).
- Able to work independently.
- Experience working with other international space agencies.
Argotec is an equal-opportunity Employer. This announcement is aimed at both sexes, under laws 903/77 and 125/91, and to people of all ages and all nationalities, under legislative decrees 215/03 and 216/03.