Human Spaceflight Safety Support Engineer

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 Human Spaceflight Safety Support Engineer to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

As per PSC policy requirements, only candidates who are citizens of EU member states will be eligible for consideration

What is expected from you

The service will provide human spaceflight safety assurance support to ESA Product Assurance and Safety Managers assigned to the Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration. The candidate shall:

• Support the implementation and verification of the safety requirements in the preparation, development, operations and decommissioning of flight and ground segment hardware and software;
• Support the review of contractor’s plans, specifications and effort proposed for the execution of the safety programme;
• Support major milestone design and safety reviews to assure that the product design allows for safe ground, launch and flight operations, and to ensure that safety data is provided to development and operations teams;
• Support mission operations during preparation and execution phases, such as Certificate of Flight Readiness (CoFR), hazardous command list identification, flight rules, anomaly response and resolution, sustaining engineering and mission control center activities;
• Support the safety assessment of ESA astronauts on crewed missions, including the safety evaluation of launch vehicles and spacecrafts safety, in coordination with other ESA internal and external stakeholders;
• Support the certification process for rendezvous, docking and operation of existing institutional projects and future Commercial LEO Destinations (CLDs);
• Support the monitoring of project safety status through identification and systematically tracking of all relevant safety issues, including deviations, waivers, non-conformances, failure tolerance exemptions, and safety critical items;
• Participate in progress meetings, as well as Boards and Panels established within each project for the disposition of non-conformances, failure reviews, safety working groups, configuration control, etc.;
• Support the formal acceptance of all contractual and Customer/Government deliverable items by reviewing the safety datapack, and producing plans for the preparation of formal acceptance of safety requirements, defining inputs, outputs, responsibilities, interfaces, and coordinating efforts to produce resulting consolidated inputs to project documents;
• Support the investigation and reporting of accidents and incidents (i.e. mishaps) occurring during manufacturing, testing, handling, transportation, and operations that have the potential for significant project impacts (technical, cost, or schedule) or involve personnel death, permanent disability, or hospitalization
• Support the safety assessment of the implementation of safety requirements by contractors, participating in safety audits and any other types of assessment to drive risk informed decision-making;
• Support the performance of Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) to verify Loss of Crew (LOC) and Loss of Mission (LOM) requirements, ensuring inputs are provided into the range safety data package, and provide ranked risk drivers to the design and development process;
• Support Crew Task Analysis and Human Error Analysis to identify potential human errors that can be encountered while performing crew tasks during nominal, off-nominal and emergency operations, assess their consequence and establish controls;
• Support integrated scenario-based Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) tests to verify design induced error and space flight procedures;
• Support dependability analyses and risk management processes established for each project;
• Support ground operations and launch campaigns as instructed by the ESA PA and Safety Manager;
• Support the capturing and dissemination of lessons learned, and the delivery of safety training to ground and flight personnel;
• Support the necessary liaison with international partners for the development and maintenance of multilateral and bilateral safety processes;
• Support the review and approval of operational changes affecting safety;
• Produce weekly reports of all activities performed (e.g. datapack reviewed, inspections, checks, visits), including conclusions and recommendations.

What you offer :

• Master's degree in the relevant field.
• A sound and proven knowledge, experience, and background in spaceflight safety certification, dependability engineering within the human
• spaceflight domain, ECSS and/or NASA Space Standards and their implementation, the application of product assurance tools
• and methods.

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.

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

When

Deadline to apply: Opening soon!

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!