Meteosat Third Generation System Engineer

EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users. As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom).

EUMETSAT is now inviting well qualified candidates from its Member States to apply for the following post:

• POST: Meteosat Third Generation System Engineer
• LOCATION: Darmstadt, Germany
• DURATION OF INITIAL CONTRACT: The initial contract will be of 4 years’ duration, with subsequent 5 year contracts being awarded thereafter, subject to individual performance and organisation requirements. There is no limit to the amount of follow-up contracts a staff member can receive up to the EUMETSAT retirement age of 63 and there are certainly opportunities to establish a long career perspective at EUMETSAT.
• BACKGROUND: EUMETSAT is currently developing the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite system in cooperation with ESA. The MTG Final In-Orbit Capacity will involve three satellites of two different types. EUMETSAT is responsible for the development of the overall system, including the full ground segment (GS), while ESA develops the space segment. Reporting to the MTG System Engineering Team Leader, the MTG System Engineer contributes to the MTG system engineering activities, leading in particular the preparation and execution of the system commissioning.
• DUTIES: Main duties will be the following:
  
  1. Maintain the system requirements and the technical MTG baseline by identifying evolutions or by analyzing the acceptability of deviations and waivers including their possible impact on the End User requirements;
  2. Finalize and maintain the design, interfaces, and architecture of the MTG system;
  3. Maintain the system development logic and planning in support to procurement activities for system level tools and services (e.g. spacecraft simulator, LEOP service);
  4. Maintain and manage system level technical budgets, including system performances and relevant margin;
  5. Update and maintain the dissemination baseline for MTG data taking into account technical and other constraints, provide validated MTG inputs to and participate in the corporate Dissemination Coordination Group;
  6. Coordinate with other MTG teams (operations preparation, ground segment, instrument functional chain) and relevant programme bodies, as required to support of the above tasks;
  7. Support the preparation and execution of the in-orbit commissioning activities for the Initial Operational Capability (IOC) involving the first imaging satellite (MTG-I1), the Partial Operational Capability (POC) involving MTG-I1 and the first sounding satellite (MTG-S1), and ultimately for the Final Operational Capability (FOC) involving MTG-I1, MTG-S1 and the second imaging satellite, MTG-I2.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Relevant Engineering University Degree or equivalent.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Proven experience in space system engineering and/or development of end-to-end satellite systems, preferably Earth Observation systems, covering requirements engineering, verification and validation engineering and technical budget management;
• Translation of user requirements and operations concept into system level requirements and/or management of requirements and traceability using appropriate tools, preferably DOORS;
• Involvement in the commissioning of a satellite system or additional experience in operations of satellite systems would be an advantage;
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and team working skills, flexibility, strengths in analysis, synthesis and presentation.

The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.

CLOSING DATE: 12^th November 2017.

Interviews are tentatively scheduled for week 52/2017.