RAMS Engineer

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

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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!

Specific tasks to be performed:

Generic RAMS support

• Provide technical support and expertise to ESA projects in the field of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) throughout all project phases;
• Contribute to the derivation of the RAMS requirements in the system architecture, the implementation and the verification process;
• Support spacecraft Safety Submissions process in the frame of satellite launches;
• Contribute to the proposal, definition, and management of R&D activities covering long- and short-term ESA needs;
• Contribute to the definition of technology development requirements and work plans for the Agency's technology programmes;
• Contribute to ESA dependability and safety policies, requirements, and standards;
• Support the maintenance of Agency and industry technical competence through the organization of training, symposia, workshops;
• Contributing to dissemination of the results of activities performed and the transfer of knowledge across the Agency.

Navigation Specific RAMS Support

• Providing RAMS support to the Galileo Segments (Ground Segments and Space Segment) and to other Navigation projects (EGNOS, FutureNAV, R&D) in the review of RAMS analyses/reports in the frame of segment reviews and during other project milestones;
• Support dependability and safety verification activities, including hazard close-out and disposition of related NCR, RFW and Critical Items;
• Contributing to the preparation of Galileo System RAMS analyses and trade offs;
• Supporting Galileo System level reviews;
• Supporting/following the procurements of Ground Segment elements, including (when directly procured by ESA) the derivations of RAMS requirements into the element requirement baseline and their implementation/verification during the full element lifecycle;
• Support the development of RAMS tools;
• Provide support to the EASA safety certification process;
• Contribute to ensure consistency across the definition and implementation of the safety and security requirements for Navigation projects;
• Supporting the collection of in-service data and their statistical processing.

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

• Master's degree in Safety, Systems Engineering or Aerospace is required.
• At least 4 years of experience in RAMS techniques in at least one of the following domains (by order of precedence):
• Space
• Aviation and ATM Navigation
• Railway
• Automotive
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities, and comfortable working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
• Candidates must be eligible for security clearance from their national security administration.
• Knowledge of Configuration Management or the implementation of Product Assurance within a quality system certified to ISO 9001 would be an asset.

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. xfgnyzt 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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