ExPeRT Early Phase Studies System Engineering and Payload Support Engineer

Telespazio; Noordwijk; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 30 days

Hybrid working

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Pension

Coursera membership

Travel allowance

Relocation package

Job summary

Telespazio Belgium is seeking a skilled ExPeRT Early Phase Studies System Engineering and Payload Support Engineer to work at ESTEC, Netherlands, on a permanent contract. You will coordinate payload analyses, support CDF studies, and liaise with ESA interfaces, ensuring robust system engineering across early phase studies.

Candidates must be eligible for EU security clearance; a Master’s degree in a relevant field is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a relevant field is preferred.
• Experience with MBSE and payload engineering is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate payload level analyses and studies, focusing on scientifically/infrastructure oriented payloads.
• Support CDF studies, prepare study concepts and interfaces.
• Maintain payload engineering baselines and requirements documentation.
• Provide systems engineering support for ESA mission reviews and early phase studies.

Education

Master's degree in the relevant field

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 will be soon looking for a highly skilled ExPeRT Early Phase Studies System Engineering and Payload Support 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:

• Coordinate and run payload level assessments and studies. Payloads that are scientifically focused, exploration focused and/or infrastructure focused are included.
• Support the concurrent design facility (CDF) study preparation process and support of the CDF studies in the development of payload concepts.
• Coordinate periodical meetings and teleconferences to monitor and control payload related activities of interfacing directorates (e.g. TEC, OPS, STS), study team members and industrial study teams.
• Preparing and providing payload interface support to the Mission Definition Review, and Phase A and B1 reviews, and participate in meetings and technical workshops as agreed by the Study Manager.
• Maintain payload engineering and interface baseline(s).
• Define analyse and maintain payload and payload interface requirements and requirements documents and communicating system level impacts originating from the payload.
• Supervise and support the functional analysis process for payload development and related tasks, including MBSE activitie
• Support and liaise with the relevant Science Office on their provision of the science traceability matrix and science requirements documentation.
• Maintain and update for approval payload description document (PDD) and payload related requirements documentation for Payloads specifically assigned to the service contractor.
• Support and liaise with a range of Payload Engineers on their provision of the payload description document (PDD) and payload related requirements documentation.
• Support to the RAMS and FDIR process and related tasks, including maintenance of the payload redundancy concepts.
• Support mission analysis as related to the payloads.
• Support the process of defining, monitoring, and controlling critical technology development activities.
• Disseminate results and outcomes from activities
• Support and participate in technical meetings and collocations
• Co-ordinate early phase mission concept studies including preparation, organisation and oversight of the ESA internal study work and Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) studies
• Provide reporting of mission study status to the ESA Exploration Study Lead(s)
• Provide system engineering support to early phase studies undertaken by industry
• Co-ordinate technology development activities associated to the assigned study area, including monitoring of ongoing TEC activities, inputs to HRE Directorate technology roadmaps, preparation of funding proposals and liaison with D/TEC experts
• Coordinate periodic systems engineering and technical meetings and teleconferences for the monitoring and control of activities with interfacing Directorates (e.g. D/TEC, D/OPS and D/STS), of study team members (e.g. D/HRE science and payload teams)
• and with industrial consortia.
• Prepare and provide systems engineering support for Mission Definition Review, Phase A and B1 reviews and participation in meetings and technical workshops as required
• Supervise and support the functional analysis process (including MBSE) on early phase studies
• Co-ordinate the RAMS and FDIR process, including maintenance of the system redundancy concepts
• Support mission analysis, ground segment definition and launcher analysis as related to the system architecture
• Support process for the definition, monitoring and controlling of critical technology development activities for missions under study phase & planning
• Authorized dissemination of results and outcomes

What you offer

• Master's degree in the relevant field

What we offer:

• 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.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

When

Opening soon!

Please note that interviews will be held via Teams.

We look forward to receiving your application for this position!