About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a Serco company, is recruiting a Dependability and Safety Support Engineer 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

• Provide safety engineering support to the ISS flight operations team.
• Provide support to ESA and users operations team for the correct interpretation and implementation of applicable ISS mission safety requirements.
• Provide safety engineering support to definition and approval of ISS maintenance operations.
• Provide safety-engineering support during mission preparation and execution for anomalies and unplanned maintenance.
• Provide safety assessment of on-orbit anomalies. Support Columbus Anomaly Response Team (CART), Material Review Boards (MRB), failure investigations as required.
• Perform training activities as required.
• Support the review of Integrated Experiment Hazard Analysis (IEHA).
• Ensure that Operational Hazard Control Matrix (OHCM) database / LISA tables are updated by Industry/USOCs.
• Support the verification of ESA Operations Hazard Control ( eOCAD) Implementation by Operational teams.
• Support NASA Mission Evaluation Room (MER) Safety and NASA Flight Operations Directorate safety for approval of maintenance operations..
• Support the Operations Data File (ODF) and Mission Action Request MAR/CHIT process and related approvals.
• Perform safety of flight briefing and post flight lessons learned exercise
• Support collection and exploitation of In-orbit data.
• Support R&D activities (e.g. TRP, GSP, GSTP, CDs Dossiers etc).
• Contribute to continual improvement of the RAMS methods and tools.
• Support preparation of training courses and materials.
• Support organisation of conferences and workshops.
• Participate in collaborative activities with universities, research institutes and industry (Research Fellowship, OSIP…).
• Support preparation and assessment of Safety Data Package for Safety Authority approval.

Profile

• Master’s Degree or equivalent qualification, with relevant experience.
• At least 4 years of relevant work experience in event management, required.
• Clear and focused communication skills.
• Capacity to handle complex situation and complex environment.
• Proven knowledge and experience in ESA Product Assurance and Safety.
• Extensive knowledge of system safety engineering principle, methods and processes. Detailed knowledge of system engineering key principle, methods and procedures.
• Knowledge of ESA and NASA safety certification process, including verification methods and procedures.
• Knowledge of the way safety data are generated, validated and retained in support of the program safety certification and follow up operations, including astronaut’s awareness and training as necessary.
• Extended understanding of the hazards which are intrinsic of a system and/or induced by space operations, and the way they are either eliminated or controlled.
• Detailed knowledge of the ISS system, subsystems and payloads/experiments, of safety requirements and of their implementation constraints.
• 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.