Satellite Operations Engineer on Low Earth Orbit Job in Darmstadt , Germany

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is a well-established consulting, technology and engineering services business. Over the past 30 years, we have built up a first-class reputation in high-technology markets, where quality and reliability are essential. Our roots are in the Space market and the experience we have developed there brings benefits to our other core markets of Aviation and Defence.

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland was created in early September 2012 when Telespazio Deutschland and VEGA Space GmbH merged into one company. These changes were made in order to serve the needs of our markets better and provide more integrated services to our clients worldwide.

Satellite Operations Engineer on Low Earth Orbit Job Description

The position is permanent and full-time and fully located on customer side at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt,
Germany. Submission deadline for applicants is 31th of October. The expected start date is soon
thereafter.

Responsibilities/Duties:
The tasks of the Key person typically include: Support to the commissioning and routine operations of Sentinel 3A, and preparing for Sentinel-3B comprising:

• Provision of operational expertise platform subsystems and/or payload instruments and/or on-board software management, satellite simulator and ground segment operations interfaces;
• Maintain the corresponding operations documentation and flight procedures, including the update and operational validation of procedures releases in a configuration controlled environment;
• Perform trending and performance analysis on the corresponding subsystems and instruments, including definition and possibly prototyping of additional analysis checks where necessary;
• Investigations into satellite anomalies. This may require a close co-operation with the Post Launch Support Office (PLSO) in ESTEC and space industry;
• Support the coordination of partner agency interactions for relevant subsystems/instruments;
• Participation in the satellite on-call support rota;
• Identification and support to implementation of system and process improvements concerning the Spacecraft Operations Team responsibilities and interfaces. Support to the system and operations preparation of sentinel-3 C and D satellites
• Provide inputs and I or review the definition of system and satellite operational concepts;
• Review space to ground interface specifications and flight operations manuals;
• Support the definition of tools and processes required to prepare for and operate the satellites. Support to the system and operations preparation of other LEO satellites
• Provide operations preparation support as required to the Sentinel-6 development.

Satellite Operations Engineer on Low Earth Orbit Job Requirements

Qualifications/Experience

• Satellite operations engineer with experience on Low Earth Orbit (LEO), 3- axis stabilised spacecraft and experience in SCOS 2K and MOIS

• Fluency in English
• Experience of at least 2 years of Spacecraft Operations on Low Earth Orbit (LEO), 3- axis stabilised spacecraft with responsibility for one or more platform subsystems or instruments during operational validation, commissioning or routine operations phases;
• Experience of at least 1 year of SCOS2000 mission control system and use of the MOIS operations preparation tool;
• Demonstrated experience in satellite performance monitoring and reporting aspects including anomaly analysis and solving in liaison with satellite industry, procedure change control and configuration management processes;
• Experience in the operation or development of satellite ground segment facilities, in particular procedure development, monitor and control, mission planning, on-board software management, performance analysis, configuration management and simulator facilities.

• Specification of system and operational concepts, facility requirements;
• Familiarity with On-Board Control Procedure and On-Board Position Scheduler concepts;
• Familiarity with the ECSS Packet Utilisation Standard, customisation and usage;
• Familiarity with system change control and configuration management procedures;
• Data analysis software packages such as MATLAB;
• File parsing languages such as PERL, A WK;
• Use of VBA for development of ad-hoc tools in MS Office applications

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