Production Engineer

Telespazio; Noordwijk; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading space operations company is seeking a skilled Production Engineer for the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. The role involves identifying cost drivers and supporting sustainability in space systems production. Offering competitive salary, 30 days of annual leave, and flexible working hours, this hybrid position requires a Master's degree and relevant experience. Relocation support is provided.

Benefits

30 days of paid annual leave

Hybrid working scheme

Fully paid health insurance

Training budget

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent is required.
• Experience in planning, scheduling, and data management.
• Knowledge of manufacturing, assembly, integration, and logistics.

Responsibilities

• Identify cost drivers and improvement measures in manufacturing.
• Monitor resource conflicts and propose solutions.
• Support management of ESA provided equipment.

Skills

Planning and scheduling

Configuration/data management

Process monitoring

Supply chain optimization

Automation and digital tools

Education

Master’s degree in Physics, Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 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. 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.

On behalf of the European Space Agency, we will be soon looking for a highly skilled Production Engineer to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

What is expected from you

• Identify cost drivers, critical processes, and improvement measures in the manufacturing, assembly, integration, test and logistics of European Space Systems generating detailed value stream maps highlighting critical processes and components.
• Track systems production progress, industrial capacities and capabilities, and status of projects.
• Monitor resource conflicts, signal deviations and propose solutions to keep plans on track.
• Review schedules, process flows, etc. to understand methods and activities in operations, integration and services, and solutions to improve efficiency and eliminate waste.
• Provide inputs to production engineering requirements for inclusion in industrial contracts.
• Analyse critical paths, identify critical areas and produce accurate and concise analyses and recommendations.
• Propose relevant supply chain optimizations to increase agility and competitiveness.
• Develop and maintain complex system and sub-system planning and schedules. Maintain the master document lists, Configuration Item Data List, As Built Configuration List (ABCL) evolution, bilateral documents, engineering plans, requirements baseline, and other governing documents, ensuring that the content is consistent and accurately reflects the design baseline evolution, and coordinating review and approval processes.
• Monitor the sustainability of the systems supply chain by identifying and implementing relevant measures to reduce CO2 footprint by 40%, e.g. by reducing internal and external logistic effort and transport, reducing reworks, replacing environmental unfriendly & hazardous processes, supporting the usage of renewable or low-impact extraction methods, and reducing energy consumption – in cooperation with the ESA Clean Space office.
• Collect, assess and sum up information on trends related to technical infrastructure and sustainability.
• Support in creating processes / methods to gather supplier contract and process activity data, designing control systems to minimise and resolve process and project issues.
• Provide support to management of 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 industrial proposals, support project teams 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 or equivalent qualification in Physics, Engineering or Computer Science is required.
• Experience in planning, scheduling, configuration/data management and process monitoring, with ability to introduce automation and digital tools
• Experience in manufacturing, assembly, integration, test, logistics, and supply chain optimisation, including value stream mapping and sustainability measures.
• Knowledge of industrialisation and serial production methods and advanced production technologies.

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.

ESTEC site: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

When

Deadline to apply: 13/11/2025

Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC

We look forward to receiving your application for this position