Package Description
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
- To provide system engineering support to ESA Future Missions Project for the Ariane launcher development and qualification activities;
- To establish and maintain the Qualification files and especially the Qualification Certificate of the launch system both for Ariane 5 ECA and Ariane ES new developed missions;
- To support the preparation of the safety files both for A5 ECA and A5 ES new developed missions. To support the preparation of the Loi d’Operations Spatiales (LOS) conformity files both for Ariane 5 ECA and Ariane 5 ES new developed missions;
- To support the organisation and the conduct of the Qualification Review to be established for the LTQR (Launch Technical Qualification Review) for the part related to the launch system both for Ariane 5 ECA and Ariane 5 ES new developed missions;
- To monitor and report on the project indicators for the different missions;
- To be in charge of the Configuration Management for the Ariane 5 ES Galileo adaptation activities and maintaining Project documentation database for this mission.
The above tasks may require attendance to relevant meetings with ESA and interfacing with CNES, ESA user programme directorates, institutional customers of launch services and Arianespace and delivery of inputs in preparation of such meetings.
The candidate shall contribute to the redaction of several documents. All output produced or procured by the Contractor in the frame of this contract shall be considered a deliverable to the Agency and as the Agency’s property. Such delivery shall take place immediately after the items are produced or procured. All documents shall be delivered in the English or French language, in both paper and electronic versions. The data shall be entered in the documents in a readable, objective and intelligible form. The documents, if required shall be maintained and updated and shall always remain accessible to the authorised staff of the Agency.
Successful Candidate
- Engineering PhD or Masters
- At least 4 years of relevant professional working experience.
- Candidates must be fluent in English.
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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