Ground Station Engineer

Description

The role is at expert level and covers routine, non-routine and contingency work on GEO and LEO ground stations.

The job also includes evolving and checking the systems, preparing for future missions and supporting collaboration with partners.

The position is based in Darmstadt, Germany.

Responsibilities

• Run GEO and LEO ground station operations, whether routine, non-routine or contingency.
• Monitor performance, look into anomalies and suggest corrective upgrades.
• Keep schedules, operational databases and monitoring systems up to date.
• Supply inputs for periodic metrics and Copernicus Programme reports.
• Help define requirements and judge technical upgrades.
• Support operational validation, including IV&V and SSVTs, and record the results.
• Review technical documents and recommend improvements.
• Prepare commissioning and operational scenarios for MTG, EPS-SG, EPS-Sterna, CO2M and Sentinel-6.
• Find system weaknesses and propose ways to resolve the risks.
• Contribute to operational concepts, transition plans and training manuals.
• Attend ARBs, ECPs and team meetings with external partners.
• Train controllers and engineers through documents and presentations.

Requirements

• Hold a university degree, or an equivalent qualification, in engineering or a related science such as telecommunications, RF, electronics or aerospace.
• Have at least 2 years of experience operating complex GEO or LEO ground station systems, such as TT&C and MDA systems, ideally in Earth Observation.
• Have proven experience validating ground stations and managing major system changes.
• Understand the ECSS and CCSDS operational standards.
• Write technical documents such as requirements, designs and test or operational procedures, and manage configuration control.
• Have experience defining or improving operator interfaces, such as HMIs and operator views.
• Desirable: knowledge of ground segment interfaces.
• Desirable: ability to diagnose hardware and software anomalies.
• Desirable: baseband configuration experience.
• Desirable: experience with monitoring tools such as Dataminer.
• Desirable: knowledge of SLE services.

Conditions

The work setup is listed as onsite under the hybrid working field.

Be available for on-call, standby, weekend, holiday and shift work when required.

Location: Darmstadt, Germany.