Post date: January 27, 2012
Location: Darmstadt, Germany
Company website: Eumetsat
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Location: Darmstadt, Germany
Company website: Eumetsat
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• engineering, system, telecoms
Telecommunications System Engineer
EUM/VN(12)02
Darmstadt, 27 January 2012
Original: English
VACANCY NOTICE
Telecommunications System Engineer
EUMETSAT is Europe's meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate
meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year. EUMETSAT is the prime source of satellite observations, data, products and services to the
National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating states, and for the
European meteorological and climate community at large. EUMETSAT delivers to users worldwide
and is a major contributor to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) programmes.
As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 26 Member States (Austria,
Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.)
EUMETSAT is now inviting well qualified candidates from its Member States to apply for the
following post in the Geostationary Programmes Division.
POST:
Telecommunications System Engineer
LOCATION:
Darmstadt, Germany
DURATION
OF INITIAL
CONTRACT:
The initial contract will be for 4 years, with subsequent 5 year contracts being
awarded
thereafter,
subject
to
individual
performance
and
programme
requirements. There is no limit to the amount of follow-up contracts a staff
member can receive up to the EUMETSAT retirement age of 63, and there are
certainly opportunities to establish a long career perspective at EUMETSAT.
DUTIES:
Within
the
Programme
Development
Department,
the
Geostationary
Programmes Division (GEO) is responsible for the design and development
phases of all EUMETSAT Geostationary Satellite Systems from the start of
Phase B until the completion of the in-orbit commissioning and hand-over to
routine operations. Within the scope of this role the GEO Division is
responsible for the design and development of the Meteosat Second
Generation (MSG) and Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Programmes.
EUM/VN(12)02
The main duties of the post will be as follows:
Define the MTG Telecommunications system requirements and analyses
including the associated maintenance and update;
Ensure and maintain traceability of system level requirements to segment
specifications;
Maintain space to ground link budgets, including management of
margins;
Monitor the design, development, manufacturing and testing of the
satellite
telecommunication
subsystem
(noting
that
the
design,
development and procurement of the satellites is managed by ESA);
Monitor the design, development, manufacturing and testing of the
Ground Stations facilities (noting that the Ground Segment is designed
and developed by the Ground Segment project inside EUMETSAT);
Perform
engineering
trade-offs
and
analyses
within
the
telecommunications
system
and
assessment
of
Requests
for
Waivers/Deviations from both Space and Ground Segments;
Prepare system review documentation for the telecommunications
aspects;
Review and contribute to the flight operations manual and procedures for
the telecommunications chain and the related ground segment procedures;
Participate in external/internal meetings and reviews at system, segment
and facility level as required;
Support the MSG & MTG telecommunications system testing before
launch and during commissioning (including test definition and
predictions, test evaluations, anomaly resolution);
Establish, review and maintain the space to ground interface document for
MTG;
Support the definition, establishment and maintenance of the external
communication interfaces (e.g. data dissemination, foreign satellite data,
SVTs);
Support Frequency Coordination activities for MTG and MSG interfacing
with the Frequency Coordination management at EUMETSAT.
QUALIFICATIONS:
University degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent;
Minimum of 5-year professional experience in telecommunications
system engineering, preferably gained during a development phase of a
space telecommunications system;
Experience in the standards related to communications at RF and protocol
levels (all OSI layers) for both space and ground communications (e.g.
ECSS, CCSDS, ISO);
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Capability to understand critical technical issues, combined with
experience to suggest the necessary steps to effectively manage risks, and
to guide decisions;
Ability to understand/synthesise complex issues;
Good interpersonal skills needed, with proven ability to apply these to the
interactions within a team and between different teams.
The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. Candidates
should be fluent in English, and have a knowledge of French. Interviews will
be conducted in English.
CLOSING DATE: 11 March 2012
Interviews are tentatively scheduled for week 17/2012.
Applications in English or French should be sent via our online form
(attaching curriculum vitae and covering letter quoting Reference
VN(12)02) at
This post is graded A3/A4 on the EUMETSAT salary scales. The minimum basic salary for this
post is EURO 6,119 per month, net of internal tax which may be negotiable on the basis of skills
and experience. The salary scale provides for increments on the anniversary of taking up
employment, and scales are reviewed by the EUMETSAT Council with effect from 1 January each
year. In addition to basic salary, EUMETSAT offers attractive benefits. Further information,
including salary details, is available on the EUMETSAT web site.
EUMETSAT is committed to providing an equal opportunities work environment for men
and women.
Please note that only nationals of EUMETSAT Member States may apply. The EUMETSAT
Convention requires that Staff shall be recruited on the basis of their qualifications, account
being taken of the international character of EUMETSAT. EUMETSAT does not operate a
nationality quota system but, in recruiting Staff members, the geographical distribution will
be taken into account.