About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting an Assistant Configuration Officer for Sapienza to work on our Customers 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

• Establishing 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.
• Establishment of configuration control methods, procedures and standards.
• Establishing and/or assuring that adequate configuration control methods, procedures and standards are established and/or maintained, consistent with applicable standards/requirements.
• Establishing and/or assuring that adequate configuration control methods, procedures and standards are established and/or maintained, consistent with applicable standards/requirements.
• Participating in Project Reviews.
• Conducting configuration audits and configuration inspections.
• Supervising the processing and disposition of Change Requests and/or Change Proposals.
• Providing status data and maintaining a well-structured record system; acting as secretary to appropriate Boards established for the processing of changes.
• Establishing and maintaining the approval system for all documents under formal ESA control, and maintaining the associated DRLs and DRDs.
• Supporting the supervision and maintenance of the documentation library and archives.
• Proposing automated methods and tools required to increase performance of configuration and documentation control tasks.

Profile

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized Institution of secondary studies or equivalent qualification in Business Administration (or Communications as relevant), with relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Proven experience in Configuration Management in Space Companies / Organizations.
• 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.
• Good knowledge of the specific activities and/or organization, of the applicable configuration management working procedures and support tool(s) are an asset.
• Previous experiences in fields like Product Assurance, System Engineering and Production Control are an asset.
• Comfortable with working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities.
• Proficient in the English language, both written and spoken.
• Knowledge of another EU member state language is an asset.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU.