Spacecraft Engineering
Serco is one of the largest technical service contractors to the European Space Agency. We have been supporting the Agency’s programmes for over 30 years and regularly have opportunities based at ESTEC (Netherlands), ESRIN (Italy), ESOC (Germany), ESA/HQ, (France), Kourou Spaceport (French Guiana) and Villa Franca (Spain).
We are seeking applicants for specific vacancies at ESTEC. The following skills areas are required:
- Electrical Engineering
- Electromagnetic
- Software
- Payload Technologies
- Power Systems
- Control Systems
- Data Systems
- Computer laboratory and Facilities Operations and Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Structures
- Advanced life support
- Thermal and ECLS analysis tools and methods
- Thermal support
- Mechanical design
- Metrology and calibration
- Electromechanical workshop
- Laboratory equipment pool
- Mechanisms
- Propulsion
- Aero thermodynamics
- Technical IT infrastructure, Operations and maintenance
- Unix and Microsoft high level administrators and technicians (Sun, SGI, Linux servers and desktop/laptop systems)
- Archive, backup and security (Tivoli)
- Networking (DNS, NIS, NFS)
- User software (Mathlab, ModelSim, STC, Eurosim and others)
- Web
Qualifications
Candidates should be degree level or equivalent, together with the relevant technical experience of at least 5 years.
Applicants should have the legal right to both live and work in The Netherlands.