EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency – monitoring the weather and climate from space – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

EUMETSAT has an open vacancy for a Temporary Engineer in the Ocean Altimetry Programme.

Duties

For the temporary support, the following tasks have been identified:

• Develop and maintain the system requirements and support the definition of the corresponding satellite, instrument and ground segment requirements for new altimetry missions (S-6C and S-6 NG Topo);
• Produce necessary design documentation, analyses and trade-offs and present them in major programme reviews such as Preliminary Requirements Review (PRR), system Requirements Review (RR) and system Preliminary Design Review (PDR);

• Define end to end system functional chains, and contribute to the production of any related Interface Requirements Document (IRDs) / Interface Control Document (ICDs), as well as to the development of operations concepts and scenarios;
• Develop and maintain a System Engineering Plan
• Coordinate the system and ground segment modelling and contribute to the Model-based system engineering (MBSE) for future altimetry missions.
• Contribute to the definition of the PUS services of future altimetry missions.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in Model-based system engineering (MBSE) methodology and development process of EO Space Missions following the ECSS standards;
• Proven experience in requirements engineering and in requirements verification control using DOORS;
• Knowledge of ECSS PUS and spacecraft on-board procedure standards (e.g. CFDP);
• Experience with procurement of complex engineering systems and management of technical support contracts would be an advantage;
• Experience with IVV would be an advantage;
• Independent thinking, ability to develop abstract concepts and to handle uncertainly and ambiguity in complex solution trade-offs and optimization;
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to work as part of a team.