PA and Safety Support Engineer

We are looking for a ​PA and Safety Support Engineer​ on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA) for their location in ​Noordwijk, The Netherlands.​  

Please note, the successful candidate will be employed by ATG Europe (or one of its subsidiaries). Furthermore, upon selection, they will be subject to a general security screening performed by an external provider (further information will be provided at interview stage). 

The successful candidate will be tasked with, but not limited to: 

• Support the establishment of the PA&S requirements baseline for all elements of the project(s)/programme(s), in compliance with the ESA general Product Assurance and Safety policy; produce PA&S documentation with defined inputs, outputs, responsibilities, interfaces, and relevant associated efforts in compliance with applicable requirements and procedures; 

• Contribute to the review of ESA contractor’s plans, specifications, and effort proposed for the execution of the project(s)/programme(s) PA&S activities; 

• Support the monitoring of project PA&S status, and the identification of relevant issues, including NCR, anomalies, failure and associated failure analysis, deviations, waivers, general Problems/Critical Items, and systematically tracking them (including Action Items (AIs) with generation of ad-hoc reporting; 

• Help in the assessment of the implementation of PA&S requirements by ESA contractors; 

• Support the Boards established within the project(s)/programme(s), for the disposition of Non-conformances/Failure Reviews, M&P, EEE, Test Reviews, etc.; 

• Provide support to the monitoring of the manufacturing, integration, and test activities by helping on quality assurance/process/system audits, mandatory and key inspection points, test witnessing and configuration inspections. This includes participation to inspection activities (MIPs, KIPs), reporting and provide recommendations to ESA project; 

• Contribute to the definition the formal acceptance requirements and to the Acceptance Reviews (AR) of all contractual deliverable items; 

• Support the preparation of the formal acceptance requirements in terms of steps, inputs, outputs, participants, responsibilities, interfaces, and, together with the ESA PA Manager/Engineer, coordinating efforts of participants to produce consolidated inputs to project / programme documents; 

• Support projects reviews by providing technical support to panel members and/or experts and, when requested, taking part in the review panels;  

• Support the preparation and review of project data-packages; 

• Support the Project Manager or/and the project PA Manager the organisation and coordination from all PA&S disciplines experts (e.g. RAMS, SW PA, M&P, EEE, Cleanliness & Contamination, etc); 

• Support the Project Manager or/and the project PA Manager; contributing to the assessment and monitoring of NCRs/Waivers/Deviations/Problems/Critical Items; 

• Support the preparation of NRB or CCB meeting agendas as required, checking that all inputs are available and checking that all needed participants are involved; 

• Contribute to the production of NRB or CCB minutes of meeting as required, help in following-up on actions identified and support proper non-conformance/waiver/problem/critical item close-out; 

• Contribute to project meetings, and reviews, including safety reviews and support them within the assigned role (e.g. secretary, reviewer, participant), producing draft minutes/reports of the reviews/meetings if required; 

• Support technology readiness assessments; 

• Witness MAIT activities including, when applicable, long term/resident support in industry or other research establishments (may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe); 

• Support Launch Campaigns in the frame of the PA&S activities (may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe); 

• Report on the performed activities via the service manager, and in general on the PA&S status of the project(s)/programme(s), in accordance to the frequency, content and format indicated by ESA; 

• Support the training of internal and external entities; 

• Contribute to capturing project(s)/programme(s) lessons learned and to knowledge capture and retention; 

• Support the establishment of PA&S dashboards and trend analyses; 

• Provide PA support to ESA Technical Officer in the execution of R&D and technology development. 

ATG is dedicated to diversity and inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer. Regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, handicap or any other reason protected by relevant state or municipal legislation, we are pleased to consider all eligible candidates for employment. 

Please ensure that your CV clearly explains how you meet the essential requirements. If it doesn’t align completely with the essential criteria, it could result in rejection. 

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline;  

• At least 10 years of experience in the space sector including 5 years in Product and Quality Assurance; 

• Proven record of Product and Quality Assurance activities for spacecraft units; 

• Experience with EEE;

• Experience in Cleanliness and Contamination;

• Experience with test campaigns at spacecraft level is an asset; 

• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities; 

• Comfortable working in a diverse and multinational team environment; 

• Problem solving mindset and high capacity to deliver; 

• Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the EU; 

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. 

Please submit your application in English via the apply button below. Applications submitted in other languages will not be considered.