European Planning and Increment Coordination (EPIC) Engineer

Job Introduction

The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 70,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government (B2G) business, specialising across five sectors: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency – where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

For our activities in Columbus Control Centre, we are currently looking for an European Planning and Increment Coordination (EPIC) Engineer.

Role Responsibility

Your activity will cover the following:

• Preparation and successful participation in the Columbus FCT Basic and EPIC training for certification as COMET;
• Familiarization with the operating procedures of the Columbus Control Centre;
• Mission planning for the operation of the Columbus module;
• Col-CC shifts as COMET position;
• Operational planning as COMET in real-time environment coordination planning with users centers, Flight Control Team and NASA planners;
• Preparation of mission operations as Columbus EPIC;
• Scientific development and preparation of new increments with new payloads and experiments or new system hardware in Columbus. The preparation is carried out, focusing on the Columbus subsystems considering the Col-CC facilities and the overall system;
• Operational planning as EPIC in preparation;
• Administration of operational procedures for ISS crew and ground teams;
• Payload Operations preparation with focus on planning;
• Monitoring of operational concepts of new experiments;
• Support of Ops product creation by the user centers in compliance with the interfaces to the Columbus System;
• Analysis of Airbus D & S, ESA and NASA reference documentation and implementation in Col-CC relevant procedures and tools, and updating databases;
• Harmonization and optimization of interfaces for ESA and NASA under operational aspects and the necessary cost;
• Mission analysis by off-line data collection, analysis and reporting across projects tasks such as participation in trials.

Successful Candidate

Requirements

You should bring a Master Degree in the field of Physics or Aerospace Engineering (or another relevant field), and 2 to 4 years of previous relevant work experience acquired in an international working environment.

Additionally, you should have:

• Very good interpersonal skills;
• Very good knowledge of English;
• Willingness to work rotating day shifts.

You will be working with scientists around Europe, and therefore a scientific background could be considered an asset.

Good knowledge of one of the following languages will be seen as an advantage: German / French / Italian.

Application procedure

Important:

All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU / EEA nationals.

Important:

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If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in Serco Europe’s Careers Hub: https://careershub.serco.eu/

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