Space Environment & Effects Engineer

TEC-EDP-815

Deadline: 08 April 2022

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 EDP – Electromagnetics Components Data & Power Systems Engineering.
Happiness of our employees has proven key to obtaining excellent results and a client who also regards us highly for excellent service.

Specific tasks

  • Analyses of space plasma and microparticle environments and their effects on spacecraft.
  • Contribute to development of space weather systems, including system definition and reviews, model development, testing of developed methods and establishment services. Contributions are also expected to the definition of required space weather. hardware (e.g. instrumentation) and software developments, and subsequently assisting in the monitoring of industrial contracts.
  • Contributions to the preparation of ECSS engineering standards.
  • Support the section with maintenance of computational infrastructure for providing space environments and effects analysis support including web site upgrade and updating, software testing, software implementation and maintenance.
  • Reviews of contractor documents in this domain and in areas where environmental effects may have an impact.
  • Support the activities of technology research and development contracts regarding the above areas, including direct interfaces with the contractors, participate in progress meetings and reviews, as requested, and provide appropriate feed-back on the progress and discussions.
  • Communication with the project contractor companies or partner. organizations, participation in progress meetings and reviews, as requested by project work, and provision of appropriate feedback on the achieved progress and discussions.
  • Presentations to project staff.
  • Contributions to scientific and technical papers.

Specific qualification requirements

  • PhD or Master’s Degree in space plasma, microparticle and/or other space environment aspects together with related IT experience.
  • Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.
  • As per Job Class in physics, applied physics, engineering with a physics and/or computing content, computing with good physics ability, or equivalent experience.
  • Advanced knowledge is required of computer programming in Fortran, C and Java under Unix, Windows and possibly VMS.
  • Use of advanced software tools (e.g. databases, simulators) and WWW technologies for science and engineering.
  • Knowledge of the space radiation environments and effects, and the associated modelling techniques, is required.
  • Familiarity with the SPIS spacecraft plasma interaction system would be an advantage.
  • Good quality control of analyses is essential.

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  in line with ESA Job Class.
  • 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

Prior to 08 April 2022, please apply via our Job Application form quoting TEC-EDP-815 (RT-C/TEC-EPS/00815) as reference.

Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting them by 13 April 2022, 13.00 hours.

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