About this job

Sapienza Consulting is looking to recruit a Thermal System Engineer/Thermal Control Engineer to work at ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Agency in the thermal engineering (design, analysis and verification area) related to the sections thermal control activities
• Provide support to ESA projects, including CDF activities, interface with the project team, interface – if requested – with the industrial team, participate in progress meetings and reviews, as requested by project work, and provide appropriate feedback on the achieved progress and discussions
• Support the thermal control activities (project support and R&D activities) of the Section in the area of his/her specialization
• Build geometrical and thermal models, perform relevant analyses, evaluate critically the results and issue relevant documentation covering all work performed
• Support the maintenance and upgrading of thermal mathematical models
• Support thermal verification test campaigns for ongoing ESA projects by performing/reviewing test procedures, test predictions and test correlations and attend the tests if required
• Support ESA project reviews
• Support European standardization activities
• Make regular progress reports
• Provide adequate documentation, covering all tasks above

Profile

• At least 4 years of relevant professional experience;
• A Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent
• A very good background and experience in thermal modelling and analysis as well as thermal spacecraft design and verification
• A very good background and knowledge of spacecraft system aspects
• A very good background and experience with the Agency’s thermal analysis tools, e.g. ESATANTMS
• Excellent knowledge of English, additional knowledge of another ESA member state language is desirable
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU