Role Responsibility

The successful candidate will be responsible for the support, analysis, development and research activities of the ESA Space Debris Office. The followings are the key tasks:

• Support mission customers for the compliance verification analysis task
• Contribute to mission milestone reviews for compliance aspects w.r.t. mitigation guidelines
• Perform, in support of missions, runs with DRAMA, Scarab and Snappshot and document the results
• Follow-up external research, as well as internal Research Fellow and NPI activities and plan/adapt internal work accordingly
• Support CDF sessions
• Support the definition of the studies for GSTP and other ESA study programs in the area of space debris.
• Provide Training on OPS-SD software and processes to internal and external trainees also in training sessions not organised by ESA
• Routine operation of  ESA’s conjunction event prediction system for internal and external customers (apart from Copernicus missions)
• Detailed analysis and consultancy in the case of a high-risk conjunction event in liaison with the Flight Control Teams, external customers and Flight Dynamics
• Contributions to the Maintenance, evolution and upgrade of ESA’s conjunction event prediction system and documentation
• Contributions to the evolution and Upgrade of ESA’s DISCOS database system and systems based thereon
• Contribute the ESA’s re-entry forecasting process
• Standby for project support in the areas of Cleanspace and SSA, and the upcoming Space Safety Programme
• Support to the interfacing with external entities, such as CSpOC for the analysis of conjunction events
• Participate to the offices regular monthly infrastructure coordination meetings
• Participate to the office’s monthly routine meeting
• Present and promote ESA achievements recent research and work performed at the space debris office at international conferences (once per year), and support related public relation or outreach activities
• Support the organisation of conferences and workshops, and run space debris office demonstration towards VIP tours in the space debris facility
• Provision of technical expertise to the ESA Technical Responsible in responding to TV, broadcast and newspaper interview requests on space debris
• Ensuring a seamless operation of the software systems in routine processes, retrieval of the necessary data

Successful Candidate

The ideal candidate should bring the following skills and experience:

Essentials:

• University degree in a relevant engineering field, astronomy, mathematics or physics
• Skills to apply the knowledge to develop solutions to technical (mathematical and dynamical) problems
• Ability to define, implement, validate and operate software using e.g. Unix and/or Linux scripting languages, Fortran 77 and/or 95, C++
• A high degree of independence
• Understand the way the CDF, IADC and SSA/Space Safety Program works
• Negotiation skills
• Coordinate Systems and Reference Frames
• Space Debris Matters (observation, modelling, mitigation, risk assessment)
• Space surveillance techniques and principles
• Re-entry aerothermodynamics principles and tools
• Public Relations and Media Interviews
• Versioning systems and configuration management
• Database systems, in particular the use of SQL in postgreSQL
• Basic understanding of the hardware (PCs, RAID, back up mechanisms …)
• On-call support in line with the technical requirements.
• Fluency in English, both in speech and writing
• Ability to work independently

Desirable:

• Familiarity with interplanetary satellite orbital mechanics
• Experience dealing with external interfaces
• Experience with Oracle/Solaris and/or Linux, network services and protocols, and system administration
• The ability to multi-task efficiently; working on multiple activities, multiple subsystems and if applicable multiple missions simultaneously

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Package Description

Highly competitive salary 

Corporate Benefits Package 

Relocation Assistance (if applicable)

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

About the Company

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