Product Assurance and Safety Support Engineer

We are looking for a PA and Safety Support Engineer (E3) to join our Akkodis Aerospace team, working onsite at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. 

Specific tasks to be performed: 

• Support the Head of PA&S Office to fulfil Quality Management System activities 
• Supporting 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;
• Contributing to the review of ESA contractor’s plans, specifications, and effort proposed for the execution of the project(s)/programme(s) PA&S activities. 
• Supporting 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.
• Helping in the assessment of the implementation of PA&S requirements by ESA contractors.
• Supporting the Boards established within the project(s)/programme(s), for the disposition of Non-conformances/Failure Reviews, M&P, EEE, Test Reviews, etc.
• Providing 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.
• Contributing 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.
• Supporting 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.
• Contributing to project meetings, and reviews, including safety reviews and support them within the assigned role (e.g. secretary, reviewer, participant). Produce draft minutes / reports of the reviews / meetings if required.
• Support technology readiness assessments.
• Witnessing of 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).
• Supporting Launch Campaigns in the frame of the PA&S activities (may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe).
• Reporting 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.
• Providing PA support to ESA Technical Officer in the execution of R&D and technology development.

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To successfully perform the above mentioned tasks, the following background / experience is required: 

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline is required. 
• Minimum of 10 years 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 test campaigns at spacecraft level is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities, and comfortable working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
• Problem solving mindset and high capacity to deliver are highly considered.

Please send your CV to recruitmentaerospace@akkodisgroup.com 

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Akkodis has proudly supported the Aerospace & Defence industry in the Netherlands for decades. Our partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) has been one of the many success stories allowing our people to expand their career horizons. Akkodis experts are contributing to some of the most important technical advances in Aerospace and Defence which impact the way we live our lives today, through specialised engineering expertise and other required skillsets. This could be your future. Become part of our successful team!

About ESA-ESTEC 

The European Space Agency (ESA) has sites in several European countries. 

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), has grown into ESA’s largest establishment and the technical and organizational hub of Europe’s space sector. Missions designed and tested at ESTEC are circling Earth, have landed on planetary bodies and have probed far into the Solar System.

The infrastructure and equipment assembled here, together with the expert knowhow of its 2800 personnel, make ESTEC a unique resource for Europe. The work done here by teams skilled in every aspect of engineering for space has enabled the creation of novel communication, navigation and information services, creating new jobs and growth while improving the lives of European and world citizens.

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