Package Description
Full details on application.
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.
Main Responsibilities
The position is for a specialist in EO remote sensing with Cal/Val and development experience.
Main tasks:
- To provide support to ESA in following and controlling the activities related to the Sentinels Mission Performance Centre (MPC) during Operations and Commissioning phases of Sentinel-2 constellation satellites.
- In particular the candidate will Interface with the S2 MPC and PDGS team supporting the following main activities:
- Support to the Sentinels commissioning phase.
- Support to Sentinels products calibration and validation.
- Review of ESA and industry documentation, during the various Project phases.
- Support to testing, integration and validation activities.
- Documentation and software deliverables review and configuration control.
- Contribution to coordination meetings and reviews, both ESA-internal and with external participation.
- Generation of minutes of project-related meetings.
- Generation of technical notes to support the projects as needed.
- Experience with Copernicus Sentinel-2 data is an asset.
- The specialist will work in a team of experts.
Successful Candidate
Qualifications and Requirements:
- The successful applicant will hold an university degree in Engineering with Remote Sensing specialization (PhD is highly desirable), have an in-depth knowledge of Optical satellite remote sensing, image analysis, GIS technology and applications and programming. In particular, demonstrated capabilities in EO data processing and applications (specially with Optical/IR)
Other skills:
- Good documentation writing skills
- Experience in big data processing, cloud computing and computer science
- advantageous
- Experience of in-situ data collection advantageous
- Scientific programming (e.g. Matlab, Python, IDL)
- Ability to manage several tasks in parallel and to prioritise
- Capability to work in a team
- Pro-active approach to problem identification and resolution
- Fluent English (written and spoken)
Preference will be given to employees within "Categoria Protetta (Law 68/99)" or registered in “lista di mobilità”
Please note the last date for application is on 03/03/2017
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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