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Materials and Processes Laboratory Technician (ESA-ESTEC)

Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Sapienza Consulting [AROO-248214]

Field(s) of expertise
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Job type
Contract
Education
Bachelor
Deadline
Closed

About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a Materials and Processes Laboratory Technician to join Materials Laboratory at ESTEC-ESA, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Sapienza Consulting Holding BV is a privately-owned Group of five companies. The first company was founded in 1994 to support project activities of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Since the early days, our vision was to provide outstanding workforce services and software solutions to the Space and Defence sector.

After nearly 25 years, the Sapienza Consulting Group consists of five wholly-owned subsidiary companies operating across the European landscape with headquarters in the Netherlands. These are: Sapienza Consulting BV, Sapienza Consulting Ltd, Sapienza Consulting SRL, Sapienza Consulting GmbH and most recently Sapienza Consulting Balkans. In addition, Sapienza Consulting Holding BV is 33% owner of LIFT BV, an innovative Dutch start-up concerned with Artificial Intelligence and social and conversational recruitment automation.

Responsibilities

  • In collaboration and support of the Metallic and Non-Metallic Materials and Processes as well as Evaluation Engineer, assess customers’ needs in relation to laboratory/analysis activities.
  • Perform all measurements and analyses on metallic as well as non-metallic materials (including cleanliness and contamination control related activities as well as PCBs and electronic assembly) on a variety of destructive and non-destructive test equipment/tools.
  • Issuing of dedicated testing procedures and documentation development as well as inclusion of test requests and test results in the relevant quality management systems and databases.
  • Setting up and operate equipment/analysis tools devoted to the assessment of space environmental effects.
  • Assessment by simulating the space environment (vacuum, radiation, ATOX, contamination, thermal) as well as pre/post characterisation by analytical techniques (thermal analysis, chemical analysis, physical and microscopic analysis, surface analysis, spectroscopic analysis, NDI techniques etc.)
  • Use a variety of laboratory tools, including acoustic microscopy, optical microscopy, scanning microscopy, confocal microscopy, XRD, X-Ray imaging, NDI etc., XPS, surface tension, Auger Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, IST Testing.
  • Perform mechanical and thermo-mechanical testing (including static, fatigue, fatigue crack propagation, Nano indentation, Nano scratch, low speed impact, hardness testing), also using contact and contact less in-situ strain measurement systems (strain gauges/ARAMIS).
  • Perform all thermal analysis on materials (including thermo-gravimetric, differential scanning calorimetry, thermo-mechanical as well as dynamic mechanical analysis, dielectric analysis, CTEdetermination, thermal diffusivity/conductivity analysis as well as coupled and advanced thermal modelling techniques for physico-chemical analysis.
  • Perform all corrosion characterisation testing, including but not limited to stress-corrosion, galvanic, red-plague, general corrosion, humidity/salt fog testing, etc.
  • Perform all verification activities on Printed Circuit Boards and electronics assemblies.
  • Recording sample properties or condition during and after test, accurately and legibly.
  • Draft relevant test reports for all performed test activities.
  • Checking on test equipment performance and reporting any anomalies or faults.
  • Improving test procedures and ensuring that these are executed correctly.
  • Maintenance of the relevant test equipment, ensuring that the equipment under his/her responsibility is kept in an operational state and all necessary routine calibration and maintenanceactivities are performed

Profile

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent Technical Degree
  • At least 4 years of relevant work experience
  • Strong materials laboratory hands-on experience related to metallic as well as non-metallic materials and manufacturing and applied processes (including cleanliness and contamination control related activities as well as PCBs and electronic assembly) characterisation/verification and failure investigation; a strong background on space simulation facilities is an asset.
  • Proven understanding and knowledge of analytical techniques for materials analysis and ability to carry them out in compliance to an ISO 17025 or other Quality Management System applicablestandards.
  • Capability of working in a timely and multitasking manner in order to meet assigned deadlines;
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to issue clear and concise materials testing reports.
  • Proven hands-on experience in:– Non-destructive investigation such as X-ray tomography, XRD– Static, dynamic and thermo-mechanical characterisation of materials– Failure investigations and root cause analysis– Combined with a solid background in materials engineering, including metallurgy, polymer composites, adhesives, ceramics and glasses
  • Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset
  • Excellent knowledge of English, additional knowledge of another ESA member state language is desirable
  • Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

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