In support to the ECSS Secretariat at ESA/ ESTEC we are looking for a: Standardization Application Engineer

Key tasks and Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the establishment of an ESA standards implementation procedure, tailoring recommendations, and associated solutions/tools.
• Supporting the application of ESA standardization policy by:
  • contributing to the maintenance of the “List of ESA approved standards”,
  • providing support as requested by projects with respect to the understanding, applicability and tailoring of standards.
• Supporting the application of standards by contributing to the transfer and maintenance of standards into requirement management tools used in ESA (e.g. DOORS).
• Collecting, organizing, analyzing and keeping up to date the feedback (from both users and developers) and lesson learnt from the application of standards, in particular for suitability of documents in respect to project needs. From the previous analysis, deriving inputs to be injected in the maintenance/update of the documents.
• Supporting the establishment of a standardization training program and contributing to the generation of the corresponding training material.
• Supporting the preparation and execution of events (e.g. meetings reviews, conferences and workshops), and the recording of associated minutes and actions and their follow-up.
• Supporting the preparation of Standardization and Divisional reports and their presentation
• Supporting development and maintenance of the ESA and ECSS standardization Websites organization and content

Additionally, the tasks to be performed also include, as requested:

• Contributing/supporting the definition, implementation and reports of standardization processes, procedures, workplans and activities.
• Acting as requested as secretary of standardization groups.
• Contributing to the definition, implementation and maintenance of the document configuration process

Skills and Experience:

• Degree in engineering, with specialization in an aerospace related field;
• Min 5 years of experience as engineer, with at least 3 years in the aerospace field;
• Good knowledge of office automation tools, and particularly in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio) and e-mail client (e.g. LotusNotes);
• Fluent in English;

• Experience in drafting and tailoring requirements documents in projects, and in supporting application of standards in projects and in drafting ITTs;
• Familiarization with Requirement Management Tools (e.g. DOORS) and database management systems (e.g. Oracle, MySQL or Access);
• Good organization, presentation and communication skills;
• Knowledge of OpenOffice and Microsoft Project
• Constancy, rigour and initiative in the execution of the assigned work;
• Open minded and ability to adapt to new situations, with the capacity and attitude for learning;
• Ability to work autonomously, as well as part of a team and able to handle occasional high work load situations; Capability to lead a team;
• Ability to acquire, co-ordinate and synthesize data and provide timely output;
• Ability to work in an international team environment and to interface at various levels, within and outside D/TEC.

Starting date: May 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter

An exciting international working environment in a highly innovative and motivated team awaits you!

HE Space Operations is an international human resources company specialised in the space market. We have been providing consultancy services in space engineering and business administration for over 25 years. We generally work directly on-site with our principal customers such as the European Space Agency and EADS Astrium.