RFP GS-LE-004/16 Frequency and Time Systems 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 ESOC, we are currently looking for a Frequency and Time Systems Engineer.

Role Responsibility

• Support to projects development, in terms of definition of technical specifications and statement of work, participation for design review as well as participation to factory and site acceptance tests;
• Participation in the definition, execution and evaluation of predevelopment studies by Industrial Contractors, related to frequency and timing systems;
• Support in the definition of requirements for frequency and timing systems, and participation in preliminary prototype and bread boarding activities;
• Monitoring and critical evaluation of activities related to frequency and timing systems development by Industrial Contractors;
• Engineering maintenance and enhancement of frequency and timing systems;
• Monitoring under ESA responsibility of development / procurement activities contracted to external industries; this includes engineering analysis, participation to reviews and meetings, participation to Factory and Site Acceptance Tests etc.;
• Engineering support to corrective maintenance tasks, for problem requiring specific technical background in frequency and timing systems;
• Engineering support to ESTRACK preventive maintenance tasks;
• Engineering support to operations.

Successful Candidate

Frequency and timing engineering, with experience in:

• Design, procurement, maintenance and troubleshooting of frequency and timing systems,
• Caesium and rubidium based frequency and timing system (in 15m antennas),
• Maser based frequency and timing system (mainly in 35m antennas);
• Optical clocks;
• Microwave (Sapphire) clocks;
• Optical (fibre) clock distribution.

Application procedure

Important:

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

Important:

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