Product Assurance & Safety Engineer in Darmstadt bei European Space Agency

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EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

Product Assurance & Safety Engineer

Job Requisition ID: 18205

Closing Date: 12 December 2023 23:59 CET/CEST

Publication: Internal & External

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Date Posted: 21 November 2023

Vacancy in the Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.

ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. We therefore we welcome applications from all qualified candidates irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, beliefs, age, disability or other characteristics. Applications from women are encouraged.

This post is classified A2-A4 on the Coordinated Organisations’ salary scale.

Location
ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
With a resident assignment to ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany

Description

Product Assurance and Safety* Engineer in the Product Assurance and Safety Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.

You will be assigned as integrated support to ESOC, the European Space Agency's Spacecraft Operations Centre in the Directorate of Operations (D/OPS). You will liaise with the relevant ESOC services, and will report functionally to the Head of the OPS Product Assurance and Safety Office.

Regarding the maintenance of professional standards, the implementation of the ESA general product assurance policy and contributions to corporate tasks (such as reviews, standardisation, alerts and lessons learned), you will report to the Head of the Product Assurance and Safety Department through and with the coordination of the OPS Product Assurance and Safety Office.

Training and familiarisation with the parent Department's mandate, processes and procedures will be provided at the start of this assignment.

PA&S covers PA management, quality assurance, dependability and safety, EEE components (including radiation hardness),materials, processes and mechanical parts (including cleanliness and contamination control), and software product assurance.

Duties

Reporting to OSP-Q, your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

defining and documenting the product assurance tasks for each space mission you have been assigned to support, with reference to applicable requirements and the OPS Quality and Security Management System procedures;
organising and supporting the anomaly and problem management process;
ensuring effective configuration management implementation;
organising and supporting the risk management process, taking information security threats into account;
initiating and supporting the lessons-learned process;
ensuring that the required quality tools are available and configured;
providing training to OPS staff on implementation of the OPS Quality and Security Management System and on quality-related control methods and techniques;
actively supporting the review of tasks and documentation relating to projects and activities from a product assurance and safety viewpoint;
performing product assurance and safety tasks in coordination with the resources of the OPS Product Assurance and Safety Office;
maintaining the OPS Quality and Security Management System procedures;
promoting and improving the integration of quality and security aspects in OPS policies and processes;
executing quality and information security audits as assigned by the OPS Product Assurance and Safety Office;
monitoring applicable scientific and technological trends and maintaining a state-of-the-art expertise;
participating in periodic meetings with the parent Section, contributing to the transfer of technical knowledge and lessons learned across the Agency.