About this job

The high-tech and innovative Terma Group develops products and systems for defense, non-defense and security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft and vessels, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry.

Terma is headquartered at Aarhus, Denmark. Internationally, Terma has subsidiaries and operations in The Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, India, Singapore and the U.S.

The Space Business Area contributes with mission-customized software and hardware products including power systems and star trackers as well as services to support a number of in-orbit pioneering European scientific and Earth observation satellite missions. Additionally, Terma is contracted for the development and delivery of software and hardware systems and services for numerous ongoing and future European, and international missions.

Terma Space operates out of Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, France and the UK.

Responsibilities

Job description

For our customer, EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany, we are seeking for a Data Processing Operations Engineer as part of the Copernicus Program.

Responsibilities

The candidate shall perform system engineering tasks in support to the Copernicus Programme.

Typical activities to be undertaken are:

• Data Processing Operations:
  • contribute to raising, processing and coordinating anomalies, their documentation, investigation, classification and resolution/mitigation, including participation in relevant Anomaly Review Boards;
  • contribute to coordination and implementation of ground segment modifications, including their documentation, approval, implementation, testing and training;
  • participate in data processing team meetings and associated activities and reviews where required in the area of data processing operations;
• Operational Monitoring and Reporting:
• • contribute to the design, development, documentation and maintenance of tools that provide production statistics reports and support the monitoring and operations of the data processing and related auxiliary data flows;
  • generation of the Copernicus KPIs;
• Operational Documentation:
• • contribute to the generation, maintenance and update of data processing operations related design, user documentation, procedures or operations guides, for example as a result of a system update or a validation activity;
  • perform operational validation of the operational procedures and coordinate specific operational validation test (OVT) campaigns;
• Interface with other teams and partners:
  • liaise and coordinate as required with external operational partners and other service providers;
• Evolutions of the data processing:
  • acquire and maintain an operational view of the payload data ground segment, as well as a system-wide understanding of its interfaces with multi-mission elements (MMEs) and external interfaces;
  • review any planned changes or evolutions to the system configurations for the ground segment to assess potential operational impacts;
  • contribute to the integration and validation of components deliveries, as well as implementation of new products, including configuration control activities;
• Operations Build up:
  • support the operations build up;
  • contribute to validation campaigns, participate to commissioning reviews and commissioning operations;
  • participate and coordinate the joint test campaigns with the operational partners;

This is a full-time position to be located at Eumetsat’s premises in Darmstadt. Please note this service requires also standby support and call-out support.

Profile

Qualifications & Competencies

Applicants shall have a university degree (or equivalent) in a discipline relevant to the job profile and a minimum of three years of experience in the operations of real-time, complex, satellite instrument data processing systems.

Essential skills are:

• demonstrated experience in near real time, data driven, automated systems with large computer networks;
• demonstrated experience with UNIX/Linux operating systems;
• fluent English skills;
• conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, shall be able to work under pressure and with a minimum of supervision.

The following experience would be an additional asset:

• demonstrated experience of Instrument data and product processing (Level-0 to 2) of meteorological and/or earth observation products;
• experience of validating complex remote sensing data processing systems;
• development and maintenance of operational procedures and/or configuration data;
• programming languages (e.g. C, C++ and IDL);
• scripting languages and databases (e.g. Perl, Python, shell, Oracle);
• spacecraft and/or ground segment operations;
• knowledge and/or experience of quality control, calibration and validation.

You shall be able to fulfil the assigned tasks with a minimum of supervision, have a systematic approach to work, be able to plan your work and cope with tight schedules and multiple tasks. You shall have the capability to write accurate and consistent technical documentation. Good communication skills (verbal and written) are important. You shall be willing to work in a team of engineers and in cooperation with industry and partner agencies.

What can Terma offer:

At Terma, we consider skilled employees, enthusiasm and job satisfaction as the very foundation of our success and as a prerequisite for the development of the “best-in-class” solutions that Terma provides. We lead the way in applying new technology, offering a wide range of growth opportunities for each individual and emphasizing mutual respect across the board in our workplace.

Terma offers you a pleasant working environment at the customer site, where you will be able to take on challenging tasks and responsibilities in a highly professional company.

Great opportunities for training and personal development.

Challenges in advanced technical environment.

International and cosmopolitan working atmosphere.

An employment contract with an attractive package with extra-legal benefits.

Highly competitive salary.