Product Assurance & Safety Support Engineer [26181]

Description

The company has provided managed services and staff to the international space sector for over 40 years and hires space specialists across Europe in engineering, science, software, operations, marketing, finance and administration.

Its staff work on programmes including Galileo, Copernicus, ExoMars, Iris2, ESA BASS, ESA GSPT, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers and the International Space Station.

The company has joined CS Group and the company to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and provide highly skilled consulting.

Responsibilities

• Help set the PA&S requirements baseline for every element of the project or programme, in line with the ESA general Product Assurance and Safety policy.
• Write PA&S documents that define inputs, outputs, responsibilities, interfaces and related effort, following the applicable requirements and procedures.
• Review contractors' plans, specifications and proposed effort for the project or programme's PA&S activities.
• Track PA&S status and issues, including NCRs, anomalies, failures and their analysis, deviations, waivers, Problems and Critical Items, through Action Items and ad-hoc reports.
• Help assess how ESA contractors implement PA&S requirements.
• Support project boards that decide on non-conformances, failure reviews, M&P, EEE and test reviews.
• Monitor manufacturing, integration and test through audits, mandatory and key inspection points (MIPs, KIPs), test witnessing and configuration inspections, then report findings and recommendations to the ESA project.
• Help define formal acceptance requirements and take part in Acceptance Reviews for all contractual deliverables.
• Prepare formal acceptance requirements covering steps, inputs, outputs, participants, responsibilities and interfaces, and work with the ESA PA Manager or Engineer to consolidate participants' inputs into project documents.
• Support project reviews by advising panel members and experts, sitting on review panels when asked, and preparing and checking data packages.
• Help the Project Manager or project PA Manager organise and coordinate the PA&S discipline experts, such as RAMS, SW PA, M&P, EEE and cleanliness and contamination.
• Assess and monitor NCRs, waivers, deviations, Problems and Critical Items with the Project Manager or project PA Manager.
• Prepare NRB or CCB agendas, confirm inputs and participants are ready, draft minutes, follow up actions and help close out non-conformances, waivers, problems and critical items.
• Contribute to project meetings and reviews, including safety reviews, in your assigned role as secretary, reviewer or participant, and draft minutes or reports when needed.
• Support technology readiness assessments.
• Witness MAIT activities, including long-term resident support at industry or research sites where applicable.
• Support PA&S activities during launch campaigns.
• Report PA&S activities through the service manager and give overall project PA&S status in the frequency, content and format ESA specifies.
• Support training for internal and external staff.
• Help capture project lessons learned and knowledge for retention.
• Support the setup of PA&S dashboards and trend analyses.
• Provide PA support to the ESA Technical Officer on R&D and technology development.

Requirements

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
• At least 10 years in the space sector, including 5 years in product and quality assurance.
• A proven track record in product and quality assurance for spacecraft units.
• Experience with test campaigns at spacecraft level is an asset.
• Strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, and comfort working in a diverse, multinational team.
• A problem-solving mindset and a strong ability to deliver are highly valued.

Conditions

The role is based in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Travel: MAIT witnessing, long-term resident support and launch campaigns may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe.

Applications must include a CV in English.

Last apply date: 28/20/2026.

The company works to prevent all forms of discrimination and encourages applications from all candidates, with a commitment to gender diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

• The company invests in your development to support the European space industry.
• You will work in an international environment.