Planning Engineer (m/f/d)

at  Spaceopal GmbH

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• University degree in a relevant field (e.g. Commercial Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Telecommunications or Electronics)
• Significant experience on operations engineering, operations preparation and execution. Experience related to developments and operations in the Galileo project (GIOVE, IOV, FOC) will be beneficial
• Good communication skills and the capability to work in a complex environment with multiple layers of processes
• Strong attitude to team work, also leveraging resources not directly dependent on him/her
• Good practical and analytical skills desirable
• Fluent written and spoken English, fluency in Italian and/or German is appreciated
• Fluency in standard office automation tools (MS Office, Email, Internet, etc.)

ABOUT US

Spaceopal is the prime service operations contractor for the European Galileo Satellite Navigation System and manages all Galileo Service Operations. The awarded European Commission (EC) contract to Spaceopal is more than just its satellites in space. Galileo Service Operations will provide high-quality positioning, navigation and timing services to users across the whole world as a civil-controlled service with guaranteed continuity of coverage.
Do you want to get involved with us? Do you want to be a part of our interdisciplinary international teams — be part of the Galileo Family? Does your specialist area match our subjects?
If you are convinced that you are right for us, take a look at all our vacancies — or send in a speculative application! Browse through our open positions.
Be part of a multinational team of high professionals in a dynamic working environment. Be part of one of Europa’s largest and most complex technology projects.
Be part of the Galileo Family

The GSOp Planner/Planning Engineer is responsible to create and implement in liaison with the Lead Service Delivery Manager a planning concept and to update it according to the evolving system and stakeholder requirements by introducing an adequate Software and process support. He/she ensures the Service Operations by providing multiple but consistent plans for the day-to-day operations as well as for the maintenance activities.

The tasks of the Planning Engineer are:

• Work in liaison with the Service Delivery Manager (SDM) Team
• Collecting all activities needed for Service Provision, planning the activities in three different time-frames, and keeping the stakeholders (Contracting Authority and Spaceopal teams) informed
• Interface for all GSOp Planning issues across all SPO teams
• Identifying and informing the stakeholders about planning conflicts, and suggesting solutions from the scheduling point of view
• Pre-defining plans for the different disciplines, like Flight Operations, Ground Operations, Mission Operations, Security Operations and User Service
• Participating to the Coordination Meetings as well as the Planning Meetings at the different time-frames and levels, by providing schedules and accessing solution to scheduling conflicts from a planning perspective
• Supporting the Contracting Authority by preparing the Long-Term Plan and the Mid-Term Plan: Information Interface to the Contracting Authority in conjunction with the Lead SDM and the Evolution and Engineering Manager
• Deriving the LEOP/IOT Timelines in coordination with the LEOP/IOT responsible persons in SPO as well as all affected SPO CTMs
• Supporting the Service Provision Prediction as well as providing support to the Key Performance Indicator Measurements
• Tracking each planned activity in the different time-frames and providing feed-back
• Supporting the evolution to an integrated planning, configuration and resources management system
• The project schedule has to be respected for all planning tasks
• The arrangement of operations and deployment should also be scheduled by means of the planning system; the same applies to the evolution releases
• The Planning Engineer should support the resource and availability management for scheduling a consistent plan