Role Responsibility

For our activities in EUMETSAT, we are currently looking for a Mission Control System Operations Engineer (Copernicus Sentinel).

The successful applicant shall perform tasks related to mission control system operations and engineering:

• For Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission: for routine Sentinel-3A operations, as well as for the commissioning phase for Sentinel-3B leading to the routine operations phase for the dual satellite system.
• For the Copernicus Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission: for routine operations of S6.
• The activity shall require the full time presence of the Key Person on site at EUMETSAT.

The ideal candidate shall perform mission control system operations, including:

• Scheduling and coordination of daily operations;
• Monitor the status of the mission control system and perform daily checks to confirm nominal status and performance;
• Monitor the status of the mission control system interfaces to other facilities;
• Perform anomaly investigations;
• Provision of support, as required, to critical and/or special operations;
• Contribute to the design, development, documentation and maintenance of mission control operations procedures identified from operational needs;
• Contribute to the design, development, documentation and maintenance of system and ground segment procedures identified from operational needs;
• Contribute to the design, development, documentation and maintenance of specific tool/scripts identified from operational needs;

Additionally, the successful candidate will focus his/her activities on the following:

• shall  provide  expertise  in  operational  ground  segment operations;
• shall  provide  training,  through  written  materials,  practical demonstrations  and  presentations,  to  other  parties  involved  in  Operations  (including controllers, analysts and engineers).
• shall contribute to the  design, development, documentation and  maintenance  of  tools  that  provide  statistics  reports  and  support  the  monitoring  and operations of the mission control system, as requested;
• shall contribute to the generation, maintenance  and update of mission  control  system  operations  related  design,  user  documentation,  procedures  or operations guides, for example as a result of a system update or a validation activity,  in accordance  with  the  established  EUMETSAT  Operations  Department  configuration management and quality assurance practices.
• shall  liaise  and  coordinate  as  required  with  the  ground segment facility  operations teams  and system operations analysts  to ensure the continuity and  optimisation  of  ground  segment  and  mission  operations  (through  procedure  and operations guide updates, configuration changes, database or user interface changes etc.);
• shall acquire and maintain an operational view of the ground segment,  in  particular  the  space  and  ground  segment  operational  needs  for  mission control;
• shall review any planned changes or evolutions to the system configurations for the ground segment to assess potential operational impacts with respect to the mission control system;
• shall interface with teams responsible for the implementation of  system  upgrades  to  support  major  operations  projects,  including  System  Mid-Term Evolution  Plan,  recurrent  satellites,  and  any  System  hardware  and  operating  system obsolescence upgrades;
• shall contribute to validation campaigns, including operations validation  tests,  participating  in  the  co-ordination,  planning  and  execution  of  these campaigns as needed, including TRRs/TRBs/FATs/OSATs/ORR,  etc  for ground segment components and operations;

Successful Candidate

Knowledge and experience with the following is considered essential for the Key Person:

• A university degree (or equivalent) in a discipline relevant to the job profile;
• At least 3 years’ experience in the operation of spacecraft control systems using SCOS-2000;
• At least 3 years’ experience of developing and/or maintaining spacecraft mission control systems software;
• Demonstrated experience in the definition and implementation of the verification and validation of spacecraft mission control systems;
• Demonstrated   experience with UNIX/Linux operating systems;
• The Key Person shall be able to communicate effectively in English (verbally and written);
• The successful candidate shall  be  able  to  conduct  all  activities  in  an  orderly  and disciplined  manner,  shall  be  able  to  work  under  pressure  and  with  a  minimum  of supervision.

Furthermore,  it  would  be  highly  desirable  for  the  key  person  to  have  experience  with  or knowledge of some of the following:

It is highly desirable that the Key Person has experience with or knowledge of some of the following:

• Experience in the use of databases and SQL-related querying in relation to spacecraft mission control systems;
• Experience in the definition, development, integration and acceptance testing of spacecraft mission control systems;
• Experience in the operations preparation and routine operations of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems ;
• Experience of Oracle databases;
• Experience of using configuration management systems such as CVS;
• Experience of using satellite simulators;
• Familiarity with ECSS and CCSDS standards related to space-to-ground interfaces and applicable to Satellite Monitoring & Control Systems: Packet Telemetry and Telecommand standards, PUS (Packet Utilisation Standard), etc.;
• Familiarity with flight dynamics and mission planning functions and systems as applied to satellite operations.

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Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

About the Company

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