About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting an Assistant Configuration Officer for Sapienza to work on our Customer’s Site (ESA-ESTEC).

Sapienza has been a partner of ESA for almost 30 years, and we pride ourselves in supporting a wide range of missions including Galileo, MTG, Copernicus and ExoMars. Our team is international with activities across the U.K., the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Responsibilities

• Establish adequate processes for proper Product configuration control, including:
  • Configuration management planning
  • Configuration items identification, technical requirements base lining, production and maintenance of configuration item data list (CIDL)
  • Management of configuration evolution, baselines verification, as-built control and inspections
• Establish configuration control methods, procedures and standards
• Establish and/or assure that adequate configuration control methods, procedures and standards are established and/or maintained, consistent with applicable standards/requirements
• Prepare formal requirements for inclusion in industrial contracts
• Participate in Project Reviews
• Conduct configuration audits and configuration inspections
• Supervise the processing and disposition of Change Requests and/or Change Proposals
• Provide status data and maintain a well-structured record system; act as secretary to appropriate
• Boards established for the processing of changes
• Establish and maintain the approval system for all documents under formal ESA control, and maintain the associated DRLs and DRDs
• Support the supervision and maintenance of the documentation library and archives
• Propose automated methods and tools required to increase the performance of configuration and documentation control tasks

Profile

• University degree (Bachelor) from a recognized Institution of secondary studies or equivalent qualification in Business Administration (or Communications as relevant)
• Minimum 2 years of experience in controlling and/or management of activities and resources in the aerospace industry
• Highly proficient in the use of modern activities and resource management support tools/databases of standard office automation support software packages including in particular advanced usage of Excel (Ms-Office and in the particular advanced use of Excel)
• Experience in Configuration Management in Space Companies/Organizations are an asset
• Previous experiences in fields like Product Assurance, System Engineering and Production Control are an asset
• Adequate knowledge and understanding of the applicable ESA Configuration Management requirements and standards such as MS-ESA-RQ-100, MS-ESA-RQ-108, ECSS-M40 are an asset
• Good knowledge of the specific activities and/or organization, of the application configuration management working procedures and support tool(s) are an asset
• Ability to rapidly understand and adapt to ESA specific context and environment including ESA corporate IT applications. Past experience with ESA in relevant activities is an asset
• Proficient in the English language, both written and spoken, knowledge of another official ESA language is an asset
• Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU