Do you want to be part of the space future? As support to a European space company we are looking for a Product Assurance Engineer

Activities

Our customer is a European organisation providing satellite operations and ground station tracking network services to its users. In your role of a Product Assurance Engineer you will be reporting to the Product Assurance Manager and Quality Assurance Manager. You will be responsible for the following activities:

• Ensure and maintain a suitable quality planning for each assigned mission, in compliance with the evolving Quality Management System (QMS).
• Ensure that the applicable QMS procedures are implemented and that the software standards are implemented by the software development & maintenance team.
• Organise and maintain the process of anomaly and problem management at system level and its interfaces with partners, infrastructure and subsystems.
• Lead the process of non-conformances
• Support the process of risk management and maintain the risk register.
• Define and maintain the rules for documentation production, handling and storage.
• Perform quality review of the documents produced by the team.
• Organise and maintain the process of configuration management at system level.
• Stimulate the identification of lessons learned from the experience of the missions.
• Provide quality training on processes and tools to the team.
• Participate in project meetings and test activities.

Skills

You ideally have the following qualifications and experience:

• University degree in aerospace engineering or equivalent
• At least 4 years of experience in supporting complex systems and ground segment, involvement in quality activities, appreciated skill on software product assurance.
• Fluency in English; knowledge of another language is an asset

Starting date: August 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter

An exciting international working environment in a highly innovative team awaits you. You will benefit from focused training and personal development bundled with a competitive salary.

Please note: Due to work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you already hold a work permit for Germany.

HE Space Operations is a growing international space company. For over 25 years we have provided our customers with consultancy services in Engineering and Business Administration. We open the door to working directly on-site with our principal customers in the space sector who rank amongst the top 25 engineering employers in Europe: EADS and the European Space Agency.