Ground Station Engineer

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

Role Responsibility

The successful candidate will be part of a Ground Station Engineering Service Team and will be expected to perform the following tasks - (non-exhaustive list):

• Ground Station System Engineering activities
• Space Communications systems requirement definition
• Space Communications systems maintenance or enhancements
• Production of project technical documentation (system/subsystem requirements, statement of work)
• Technical document review
• Participating in Ground Station systems FAT and SAT campaigns, drafting the related reports
• Assessment of reports related to the definition, execution and evaluation of communication systems pre-development studies.
• Ground Station Engineering support to operations, with special reference to the provision of expert support in the Delta DOR correlator development, maintenance and operations.

   

Successful Candidate

Skill and expertise

The successful applicant should have a university degree in Communication Engineering, Physics or related disciplines and as much as possible of the following skills and/or expertise:

• Ground Station System Engineering
• TT&C systems and their interfaces
• Relevant ECSS and CCSDS standards and recommendations,
• Signal Processing
• Communications Link budgets
• RF propagation through atmosphere and interplanetary plasma
• Tracking techniques used for near Earth and deep space applications (ranging, Doppler, Delta DOR)
• System knowledge about modulation and coding techniques
• The working language is English, knowledge of another ESA member state language is an asset.

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Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

For positions located within the Darmstadt Support Office please note that only applicants with no family affiliation within the Company will be considered.

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Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

About the Company

Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 60,000 employees worldwide.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 60,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you

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