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Part-time
postgraduate degree
30 Days Of Paid Annual Leave, Public Holidays, Hybrid Working Scheme, Flexible Working Hours, Fully Paid Collective Extensive Health Insurance Scheme, Pension Scheme With No Personal Contribution
Posted 50d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The role involves maintaining master document lists, managing the design baseline evolution, and acting as the ECB secretary. It also requires supporting technical reviews with industrial consortia and implementing automated tools to streamline configuration and data management.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Master's degree in a relevant field and have experience in configuration management and engineering processes. Proficiency in tools like DOORS, Windchill, or Teamcenter and eligibility for EU security clearance are required.
Full job description
Telespazio Belgium can count on more than 45 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.
We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency, EUSPA and other Telespazio Groups. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.
The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.
Telespazio Belgium has an on‑site service at ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we are looking for a highly skilled Configuration Management Engineer to work there.
Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration
What is expected from you:
Provide input to production engineering requirements for inclusion in industrial contracts
Maintain the master document lists, bilateral documents, engineering plans, requirements baseline, and other governing documents, ensuring the content is consistent and accurately reflects the design baseline evolution, and coordinating review and approval processes
Review the Configuration Item Data List (CIDL) and as-designed / design baseline evolution, the As-Built Configuration List (ABCL) evolution, as well as performing the reconciliation between both CIDL and ABCL
Perform the function of ECB secretary
Prepare and support ECB meetings, (e.g. collect the required inputs, prepare the agenda and minutes of meetings, coordinate the follow up actions, disposition of amendments, ensure documentation management and dissemination, update related databases)
Support the review and disposition of Request for Waiver (RFWs), Request for Deviation (RFDs) and configuration change requests / proposals.
Update and maintain technical baseline documentation for CCB review
Provide support to ESA provided equipment, (e.g. equipment being operated in or on international partner modules)
support the project team in Technical Reviews with Industrial Consortia or International Partners (e.g. PDR, CDR, QAR, Manufacturing / Integration / Test Readiness reviews, Post-Test reviews, Pre-Shipment reviews, Delivery Review Boards), by reviewing the associated data packs for completeness, coherency and for proper change and waiver implementation.
Provide review of technical industry proposals
Support team and technical meetings with industry or International Partners
Plan and support audits / physical inspections regarding engineering and PA&S
Support project teams in implementation of harmonized engineering practices throughout the agency and its projects
Monitor engineering processes to be specific, accurate and controlled, yet agile and adaptable to allow rapid implementation of process improvements.
Support project teams to identify and introduce automated methods and tools to streamline and improve team collaboration and configuration and data management tasks
Provide updates to documentation of related processes and procedures
What you offer:
Master's degree in the relevant field
Experience in Configuration Management and Engineering Processes, including change control and baseline management.
Strong knowledge of technical documentation and review processes (e.g. PDR, CDR, CCB/ECB activities).
Excellent organizational and coordination skills to manage meetings, documentation, and stakeholders.
Proficiency with engineering and document management tools (e.g. DOORS, Windchill, Teamcenter, MS Office).
What we offer:
A competitive salary
30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
Travel allowance;
Extensive relocation package
Where:
You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.
Telespazio works to bring Space closer to Earth, benefitting citizens, institutions and companies in a variety of sectors ranging from design and development of space systems to management of launch services and in orbit satellite control; from Earth observation to integrated satellite communication, navigation and localisation services, and through to scientific programmes. Its open innovation approach, together with the cross-contamination of different operational domains and a constant focus on issues of environmental sustainability, allow Telespazio to operate in sectors that will become increasingly important in the years to come: from communication and positioning services for the Moon to management and monitoring of satellites and other orbiting objects (Space Domain Awareness), and creation of advanced in orbit services and satellite operation of drones and unmanned vehicles. Moreover, using innovations such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to process big data from satellites, Telespazio is in the front lines of development of space applications capable of improving people’s lives on our planet and helping to win the great challenges of our times, such as the effects of climate change. Telespazio is a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%) and one of the world’s biggest suppliers of satellite solutions and services. The company teams up with Thales Alenia Space to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, a strategic partnership which offers a complete range of space services.
Founded in Italy in 1961, Telespazio is based in Rome and counts more than 3000 employees through its various subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Offices: Via Tiburtina, 965, Rome, Italy 00156, IT · Via Tiburtina, 1020, Roma, Lazio 00156, IT
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