Senior Human Spaceflight Safety Support Engineer

• Support the implementation and verification of the safety requirements in the preparation, development, operations and decommissioning of flight and ground segment hardware and software;
• Support the review of contractor’s plans, specifications and effort proposed for the execution of the safety programme;
• Support major milestone design and safety reviews to assure that the product design allows for safe ground, launch and flight operations, and to ensure that safety data is provided to development and operations teams;
• Support mission operations during preparation and execution phases, such as Certificate of Flight Readiness (CoFR), hazardous command list identification, flight rules, anomaly response and resolution, sustaining engineering and mission control center activities
  
• Support the safety assessment of ESA astronauts on crewed missions, including the safety evaluation of launch vehicles and spacecrafts safety, in coordination with other ESA internal and external stakeholders;
• Support the certification process for rendezvous, docking and operation of existing institutional projects and future Commercial LEO Destinations (CLDs);
• Support the monitoring of project safety status through identification and systematically tracking of all relevant safety issues, including deviations, waivers, non-conformance, failure tolerance exemptions, and safety critical items;
• Participate in progress meetings, as well as Boards and Panels established within each project for the disposition of non-conformance, failure reviews, safety working groups, configuration control.
• Support the formal acceptance of all contractual and Customer/Government deliverable items by reviewing the safety data pack, and producing plans for the preparation of formal acceptance of safety requirements, defining inputs, outputs, responsibilities, interfaces, and coordinating efforts to produce resulting consolidated inputs to project documents;
• Support the investigation and reporting of accidents and incidents (i.e. mishaps) occurring during manufacturing, testing, handling, transportation, and operations that have the potential for significant project impacts (technical, cost, or schedule) or involve personnel death, permanent disability, or hospitalization
• Support the safety assessment of the implementation of safety requirements by contractors, participating in safety audits and any other types of assessment to drive risk informed decision-making;
• Support the performance of Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) to verify Loss of Crew (LOC) and Loss of Mission (LOM) requirements, ensuring inputs are provided into the range safety data package, and provide ranked risk drivers to the design and development process;
• Support Crew Task Analysis and Human Error Analysis to identify potential human errors that can be encountered while performing crew tasks during nominal, off-nominal and emergency operations, assess their consequence and establish controls;
• Support integrated scenario-based Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) tests to verify design induced error and space flight procedures;
• Support dependability analyses and risk management processes established for each project;
• Support ground operations and launch campaigns as instructed by the ESA PA and Safety Manager;
• Support the capturing and dissemination of lessons learned, and the delivery of safety training to ground and flight personnel;
• Support the necessary liaison with international partners for the development and maintenance of multilateral and bilateral safety processes;
  
• Support the review and approval of operational changes affecting safety;
• Produce weekly reports of all activities performed (e.g. data pack reviewed, inspections, checks, visits), including conclusions and recommendations.

• Master's degree in the relevant field
• A sound and proven knowledge, experience, and background in spaceflight safety certification
• Dependability engineering within the human spaceflight domain
• Knowledge of ECSS and/or NASA Space Standards and their implementation
• The application of product assurance tools and methods

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

Deadline to apply: ASAP

Please note that interviews will be held via Teams.

We look forward to receiving your application for this position!