Senior Product Assurance Engineer – Space Projects

Akkodis; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis, supporting the IRIS² project within the ESA framework, seeks a PA and Safety Support Engineer to work onsite in the Netherlands. The role focuses on quality management, PA&S baseline establishment, and PA&S activity reviews in a multinational aerospace environment.

You will aid PA&S governance, coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, and contribute to non-conformances, NRB/CCB processes, and test readiness assessments, ensuring robust PA&S execution across project stages.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering discipline is required.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the space sector including 5 years in Product and Quality Assurance.
• Proven record of Product and Quality Assurance activities for spacecraft units.
• Experience with test campaigns at spacecraft level is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with strong organizational and communication abilities, and ability to work in a multinational team.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and high delivery capacity.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of PA&S Office to fulfil Quality Management System activities.
• Establish the PA&S requirements baseline for project elements in line with ESA policies; produce PA&S documentation with defined inputs, outputs, responsibilities, interfaces, and required efforts.
• Review ESA contractor plans, specifications, and PA&S activities.
• Monitor project PA&S status, identify NCRs/anomalies/failures, and track actions and ad-hoc reports.
• Assess PA&S implementation by ESA contractors and support acceptance reviews and related processes.
• Assist in coordinating PA&S experts across RAMS, SW PA, M&P, EEE, etc., and support NRB/CCB meetings and minutes.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Organizational abilities

Education

Master’s degree in engineering

Job description

Akkodis, supporting the IRIS² project within the ESA framework, seeks a PA and Safety Support Engineer to work onsite in the Netherlands. The role focuses on quality management, PA&S baseline establishment, and PA&S activity reviews in a multinational aerospace environment.

You will aid PA&S governance, coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, and contribute to non-conformances, NRB/CCB processes, and test readiness assessments, ensuring robust PA&S execution across project stages.