PA & Safety Support Engineer

We are looking for a ​PA & Safety Support Engineer​ to complete our consultants Workforce Management Service to support the ​Product Assurance & Safety (PA&S) function of​ the European Space Agency (ESA) at their location in ​Noordwijk, the Netherlands​. This service is based at ESTEC, within the TEC-QP (Quality and PA Management Division).  

The service is intended to provide comprehensive support to ESA PA&S Managers and Engineers for designated projects or programmes, or, when applicable, directly the Head of the relevant PA&S Office. This includes defining, conducting, monitoring, and assessing the implementation of the PA & Safety Programmes for flight, ground, and launch space systems across all mission phases. 

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 the 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 projects or programmes, 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 projects or programmes 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 or Critical Items, and systematically track 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 projects or programmes for the disposition of Non-conformances or Failure Reviews, M&P, EEE, Test Reviews, etc; 

• Provide support to the monitoring of the manufacturing, integration, and test activities by helping with quality assurance, process and 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 or Engineer, coordinate efforts of participants to produce consolidated inputs to project or programme documents;  

• Support projects reviews by providing technical support to panel members 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 with 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; contribute to the assessment and monitoring of NCRs, Waivers, Deviations, Problems or 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 and 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). Produce draft minutes and reports of the reviews or meetings if required; 

• Support technology readiness assessments; 

• Witness of MAIT activities including, when applicable, long term or 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 projects or programmes, in accordance to the frequency, content and format indicated by ESA; 

• Support the training of internal and external entities; 

• Contribute to capturing projects or programmes 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, or any other reason protected by relevant state or municipal legislation, we are pleased to consider all eligible candidates for employment. 

• Master’s degree in Engineering;

• At least 4 years of relevant experience; 

• Significant experience in Product Assurance and Quality Assurance, preferably in the space domain and in ISO 9001/9100 certified environments; 

• Quality auditor experience; 

• Experience or knowledge of RAMS, Safety submission processes, or of any other PA&S discipline (e.g. RAMS, SW PA, M&P, EEE, Cleanliness & Contamination); 

• Knowledge of Configuration and Quality Management principles and systems; 

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

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.