Thermal System Engineer

Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC.
Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support to ESA in the domain of Structures Materials Mechanisms and Thermal Engineering (SMT).
Happiness of our employees has proven key to obtaining excellent results and a client who also regards us highly for excellent service.

Overview

The principle tasks and responsibilities include:

• Provide support to the Agency in the thermal engineering (design, analysis and verification area) related to the sections thermal control activities.
• Provide support to ESA projects, including CDF activities, interface with the project team, interface – if requested – with the industrial team, participate in progress meetings and reviews, as requested by project work, and provide appropriate feedback on the achieved progress and discussions.
• Support the thermal control activities (project support and R&D activities) of the Section in the area of his/her specialization.
• Build geometrical and thermal models, perform relevant analyses, evaluate critically the results and issue relevant documentation covering all work performed.
• Support the maintenance and upgrading of thermal mathematical models.
• Support thermal verification test campaigns for ongoing ESA projects by performing/reviewing test procedures, test predictions and test correlations and attend the tests if required.
• Support ESA project reviews and the European standardization activities.

In particular, specific tasks shall cover:

• Support the development of advanced thermal analysis methods & tools, e.g. general improvements related to algorithms, finite element based methods, data management and numerical analysis.
• Support the execution of advanced analyses, using standard thermal software, and development of relevant in-house software utilities.
• Support the evaluation and validation of development activities related to thermal software tools.
• Support the execution of multi-disciplinary analyses (e.g. thermo-elastic) and general interface between structural and thermal models.
• Support the exchange and transfer of models between different thermal analysis tools, including the development, maintenance and verification/validation of data exchange software tools.
• Support the development of guidelines for the management of software and thermal models.
• Make regular progress reports.
• Provide adequate documentation, covering all tasks above.

Specific qualification requirements

• Master degree in relevant discipline (Thermal Engineering or equivalent).
• Background in analysis methods, numerical analysis, data management and a general knowledge of space thermal engineering.
• Very good knowledge of Agency’s thermal analysis tools, e.g. ESATAN-TMS, EcoSim Pro, CFD-RC, Flow-3D.
• Knowledge of other CAE tools such as IDEAS/TMG, Thermica.
• Experience in development of software products.
• Knowledge of the STEP-TAS data exchange protocol and software libraries.
• Very good background and experience in thermal modelling and analysis as well as thermal spacecraft design and verification.
• Very good background and knowledge of spacecraft system aspects.
• Proficient in the English Language (Spoken and Written).

Legal and Security Requirements

• All applicants must be legally allowed to work in The Netherlands
• Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA.
• Prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident.

Location

The work will be performed at the European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Contract

• The selected candidate will receive good remuneration.
• Will be registered for both social security and tax in the Netherlands.
• The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday.
• Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included.
• Aurora assist with relocation both with support and financially.
• Aurora contributes to a company pension scheme.

To be considered for this Position

Provide prior to 1 December 2017 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailed Candidate Proposal Form or CV and Motivation Letter to Mr. Davide Starnone, at email davide.starnone@aurora.nl  quoting reference TEC-SMT-409.

Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting them by 7 December 2017, 13.00 hours.

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