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Full details on application.
Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).
Job Introduction
Job Introduction
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.
One of our main major customers in the continental Europe is the European Space Agency, with Serco being the largest on-site service provider.
For 2017 we anticipate further growth in our operations in ESTEC and as a result we are pleased to announce the following opportunity.
Main Responsibilities
- Definition and implementation of GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control) Systems for Planetary Exploration Orbiters and Landers, for Launchers and Re-entry Vehicles and for specialised applications such as Formation Flying.
- The functional support provided to ESA projects (e.g. Exomars, Bepi Colombo, Proba3, ATV, Vega, IXV, …) includes:
- Participation to project reviews (SRR, PDR CDR, …).
- GNC design, analyses and simulations (control loops design and modelling, FDIR, Independent simulator set-up, functional verification and performance budgets).
- GNC SW implementation.
- Sensors and actuators selection and procurement support.
- AIV/AIT support (test benches, review of test plans and test results).
- Operations support (review of Operations Manual, rehearsal and LEOP).
- Support to in-orbit analysis.
- Conception, initialisation and supervision of corresponding enabling GNC technology R/D: Entry, Descent and Landing, Re-entry, RendezVous and Docking, Formation Flying, Hybrid Navigation, Health Management including prototyping and tools development.
- Advanced Control and Estimation Techniques Research and Development.
- Development and utilisation of the Control Hardware Laboratory (e.g. navigation techniques prototyping and testing in open and closed loop).
- Maintenance, development and set-up of GN&C simulation tools.
- Participation to the elaboration and promotion of ECSS standards in the E60 domain.
Successful Candidate
- Engineering PhD or Master Degree in Control and Aerospace engineering.
- Proven experience in the design, tuning, analysis and simulation of GNC systems in different project phases.
- Proven knowledge of modern control design methods, commercial model-based design tools (MATLAB).
- Experience with rapid-prototyping of hardware-in-the-loop systems.
- Ability to interface with industry.
About the Company
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.
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