ITT 16/213300 2x Ground Stations System 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

You will support the activities of ground segment developments in the areas of Ground Stations, RF and Telecommunications. In doing this, you should support:

• The follow up of the detailed design and development activities of Phase C/D of the future ground segments in the areas of Ground Stations, RF and Telecommunications (mainly for supporting MTG and EPS SG activities);
• Engineering activities of Phase B of future ground segments in the areas of Ground Stations, RF and Telecommunications (mainly for supporting Jason-CS activities);
• The maintenance and evolution in phase E to the other programmes within EUMETSAT (MSG, EPS, Jason, ...) in the areas of Telecommunications, RF and Ground Stations.

You will support a multi-disciplinary system engineering team. The SEP Ground Stations Engineering Team Leader will be the primary technical point of contact. However, when working in a given programme, you will report also within the established programme structure.

In the performance of these tasks, you should apply the relevant organisational and programmatic quality management procedures as well as the relevant ground stations system engineering standards.

Successful Candidate

You should have a university degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline relevant to the job profile together with the experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks.

You should have, as a pre-requisite, a demonstrated experience in a similar function for at least 5 years. This experience shall include in particular:

• Ground stations system and subsystem design and development for TT&C;
• Ground stations system and subsystem design and development for mission specific and / or satellite communications ground stations;
• TT&C baseband equipment and SLE compliant implementations;
• Technical background in the specification and V&V of ground stations and large antennas and tracking systems for GEO and LEO satellites (ACU and receivers inclusive);
• Knowledge of modulation / demodulation schemes applied by Ground to Space ICD for TT&C and payload data transmission (e.g. ECSS and CCSDS Standards).

You should bring sound organisational and interpersonal skills to conduct the responsibilities described above autonomously and with a minimum level of supervision, exhibiting good oral and written communications skills, analytical capabilities, and motivation.

The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore you must be able to work effectively in this language.

Desirables

In addition, the knowledge and experience of the following processes / areas is considered as an asset:

• Competence and experience in the engineering processes for managing requirements from the definition phase through the traceability, verification, validation and maintenance stages using formal methods and tools (e.g. DOORs);
• Design and requirements engineering of large and complex Earth Observation related ground stations ;
• Usage of High Data Rate Demodulators;
• System experience with Link budget analysis and tools in S, X and Ka Band.
• Standard RF and microwave tools and S/W package for generation of signal processing related simulations and / or semi-automated measurement procedures.

-------------

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.

Data Protection:

When creating a profile on the Serco Career Centre you agreed to the Data Protection policy, a copy is available upon request.

You may submit a written request revoking your consent to this agreement at any time.

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 80,000 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 100,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you

Serco European Agencies