Satellite Operations Engineer

at  OQ Technology

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in a relevant discipline

• 2+ years experience with Spacecraft operations engineering for Low Earth Orbit (LEO), 3- axis stabilised spacecraft with responsibility for one or more platform subsystems or instruments during operational validation, commissioning or routine operations phases; preferably for nanosatellites or microsatellites.

• Demonstrated experience in satellite performance monitoring and reporting aspects including anomaly analysis and solving in liaison with satellite industry, procedure change control and configuration management processes; - Experience in the operation or development of satellite ground segment facilities;

• Specification of system and operational concepts, facility requirements;

• Experience with AOCS or OBC, or Power systems.
• Preferably experience in working in newspace environment.
• Willing to work sometimes on weekends.
• Fluency in English is mandatory.
• Resident in Europe or has EU visa already (applications outside Europe will not be considered)

• Lead the commissioning and routine operations and preparing for current and future satellites.
• Support to platform subsystems, payload instruments, on-board software management, satellite simulator and ground segment operations interfaces;
• Produce and maintain the corresponding operations documentation and flight procedures;
• Trending and performance analysis of the platform and payload;
• Investigations into satellite anomalies;
• Participation in the satellite on-call or operations support rota;
• System and operations preparation for satellites;
• Provide inputs and review the definition of system and satellite operational concepts;
• Review space to ground interface specifications and flight operations manuals as well as support the definition of tools and processes.