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System Engineering Support to EOP for Future Mission and System Studies/ E-ENG-02-05

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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.

Role Responsibility

  • Support the definition and monitoring of activities for the preparation of future ESA Earth Observation missions, in particular for Copernicus Sentinel Evolution, new Earth Explorer/Earth Watch missions and operational meteorology missions
    • Support to the elaboration of SOW and technical specifications (SRD, ICD if applicable) for future ESA EO missions
    • Actively participate to progress meetings and reviews (e.g. MTR/FR, MCR/MAR, PCR/PRR/SRR depending on study scope and project phase)
    • Maintain and cross-check all system engineering and performance budgets at platform, payload and mission level
    • Coordinate, maintain and secure coherent interfaces between payload/platform and launcher and ground segment
    • Review the different TNs and documents produced by industry and raise comments/RIDs as appropriate to ensure the technical coherency and maturity of the mission definition
    • Maintain and follow-up resolution of actions at system level derived from industrial contracts
    • Coordinate technical inputs from external entities, outputs from industrial contracts and ESA internal support
  • Review Technical Notes and actively participate to progress meetings related to EO future mission and system studies
  • Support elaboration of SoWs for future mission and system studies
  • Contributing to ensure the technical coherency of the system design of future EO missions, including, as needed, functional analysis and design, overall system concept, system level budgets, system performance analyses, definition of spacecraft and/or payload subsystems and related data processing
  • Perform internal studies for future EO missions, in particular to assess the results of external activities or to prepare the formulation of new mission concepts
    • Critical evaluation of the results of industrial activities initiated by ESA for future EO missions, to ensure the technical coherency of the system design of future EO missions, including, as needed, functional analysis and design, overall system concept, system level engineering budgets, system performance analyses, definition of spacecraft and/or payload subsystems and related data processing, and interface definition
    • Preliminary sizing of new missions to prepare the formulation of new mission concepts, including first estimation of the system engineering and performance budgets, with a focus on the space segment and its interfaces with the launcher and the ground segment
    • Evaluate the complementarity between ESA EO future missions and other missions (existing or planned by other space organisations), including mission analysis and assessment of potential synergy or overlap of mission capabilities.

Support work in the area of modelling of system or sub-system aspects for end-to-end performance simulations and system engineering tools

Successful Candidate

  • Engineering PhD or Master Degree;
  • Good general knowledge of ESA Earth Observation missions;
  • Strong and demonstrated background in space system engineering and mission analysis, in particular for Earth Observation missions;
  • Experience in space projects, preferably in the Earth Observation field and/or in preparatory activities (phase 0 and A);
  • Good communication and technical writing skills;
  • Good organisation skills;
  • Methodical and proactive, with initiative and capability to work independently;
  • Problem-solving oriented attitude;
  • Capability to synthesise, summarise and take conclusions;
  • Experience in system design is an asset;
  • Experience in space system design, mission analysis and small platform sizing is an asset;
  • Experience with MATLAB, STK and MS Excel is an asset;
  • Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Package Description

Full details on application

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

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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