Satellite Operations Engineer (m/w/d)

Overview

Location of work: Darmstadt, Germany

Customer: European Space Operations Centre (ESOC / ESA)

Job Type: Full Time

Due Date For Application: End of Q1 2025

Requirements

• In addition to having a University degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, the candidate shall have experience in the following mandatory skills:
• Experience of Spacecraft Operations ideally within one of the following missions: Earth Observation, Astronomy and/or Interplanetary.
• Responsibility for one or more platform subsystems or instruments during operational validation, commissioning or routine operations phases.
• Experience of SCOS2000 mission control system and use of the MOIS operations preparation tool.
• 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.
• Fluency in English, which is mandatory; this is the working language at ESOC, and the Contractors must be able to work effectively in this language both in written and spoken form.

Advantageous

• Experience with some of the following: specification of space system and operational concepts, facility requirements.
• Familiarity with On-Board Control Procedure and On-Board Position Scheduler concepts.
• Familiarity with the ECSS Packet Utilization Standard, customization and usage.
• Familiarity with system change control and configuration management procedures.
• Data analysis software packages such as Python and/or MATLAB.

Application

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