Ground Segment Product Assurance Engineer

Ground Segment Product Assurance Engineer in the Product Assurance and Safety Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality

After an initial period of training and familiarisation in the Product Assurance and Safety Department, you will be assigned as Integrated Support to the Directorate of Navigation and will report to the Head of the Galileo Ground Segment Product Assurance and Safety Unit for the specific responsibilities and duties outlined hereunder.

For the maintenance of professional standards, for the implementation of ESA's general Product Assurance and Safety (PA&S)  policy and for contributions to corporate tasks (e.g. reviews, standardisation, alerts, lessons learned, etc.), you will report to the Head of the Product Assurance and Safety Department through the Head of the Navigation Product Assurance and Safety Office.

Specific responsibilities and duties include:

• establishing and maintaining the particular project PA&S requirements baseline for the Galileo ground segments in compliance with ESA's general PA&S policy;
• reviewing contractors’ plans, specifications and efforts proposed for the execution of the project PA&S programme;
• guiding and monitoring the implementation of PA&S requirements by contractors in order to assess performance/effectiveness, participating in design reviews and managing the necessary preventive or corrective actions;
• representing ESA on the boards established within the project for dealing with of non-conformances, failure reviews, test reviews, etc.;
• ensuring implementation of the software PA and software configuration management requirements baseline across the Galileo ground segments;
• monitoring integration and test activities with quality assurance audits, mandatory and key inspection points, test witnessing and configuration inspections;
• supporting the definition of the formal acceptance requirements and conduct of acceptance reviews of all contractual deliverable items;
• ensuring the preparation of design trade-offs, analyses and reports using RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) data to support project decisions;
• supporting security activities for ground segments as appropriate;
• participating in periodic meetings with the parent organisational unit and contributing to the transfer of technical knowledge and lessons learned across the Agency.

In the execution of these tasks, you will be supported by experts from the Galileo Project team and from the ESA Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.

A Master’s degree in an engineering discipline is required.

You should have a background in space systems. Experience in the management of PA for a large project is required, together with a good knowledge of software and RAMS engineering techniques, preferably in the domain of aerospace development. Experience in the security domain is an asset.

You must also be eligible for security clearance by your national security administration.