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VN 24/60 Radar Calibration Transponders Engineer

As Radar Calibration Transponders Engineer within the Ground Stations Competence Area (GStats CA) you will provide engineering support to the development and evolutions of EUMETSAT’s ground segment systems, in particular to the EUMETSAT Polar System‘s new generation on-ground transponders, in charge of the calibration of the scatterometer instruments on board of Metop and Metop-SG spacecraft.

Ground Stations are critical assets to the operations of EUMETSAT’s Low-Earth-Orbiting (LEO) and Geostationary (GEO) Earth observation missions. With a multi-mission approach, the successful candidate will take on system engineering responsibilities for the development and upgrades of the on-ground calibration transponders and associated ancillary systems.

Close collaboration with our international Ground Stations operations and engineering teams will offer you enriching experience of contributing to the full lifecycle of the systems under your responsibility.

Duties

  • Manage engineering activities to develop and evolve ground transponders and associated hosting infrastructure and services:
    • Definition of concepts, analyses and trade-offs;
    • Definition, engineering and management of technical requirements in accordance to identified user’s needs;
    • Support and follow-up on design and development;
    • Supervision and support for integration, validation and verification activities;
    • Support anomaly review boards, configuration and quality management.
  • Provide technical leadership in the area of C-band radar technologies;
  • Support the definition and implementation of a long-term strategy for cost effective maintenance of Ground Stations systems and sites;
  • Manage industrial contracts;
  • Support the definition and set-up of a Ground Station RF and Signal Processing Lab including system baselining and know-how management;
  • Acquire, maintain and foster knowledge on CCSDS and ECSS standards, ground stations engineering related topics;
  • Certain activities will require travelling within Europe and/or going on business trips to remote sites where ground station are located such as Svalbard (Norway), and Turkey. These business trips could have durations of several weeks.
 

LOCATION

Darmstadt, Germany

QUALIFICATIONS

University degree (or equivalent) in Telecommunication Engineering, or any other relevant discipline.

LANGUAGES

The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.

DEADLINE

20 January 2025

Duties

  • Manage engineering activities to develop and evolve ground transponders and associated hosting infrastructure and services:
    • Definition of concepts, analyses and trade-offs;
    • Definition, engineering and management of technical requirements in accordance to identified user’s needs;
    • Support and follow-up on design and development;
    • Supervision and support for integration, validation and verification activities;
    • Support anomaly review boards, configuration and quality management.
  • Provide technical leadership in the area of C-band radar technologies;
  • Support the definition and implementation of a long-term strategy for cost effective maintenance of Ground Stations systems and sites;
  • Manage industrial contracts;
  • Support the definition and set-up of a Ground Station RF and Signal Processing Lab including system baselining and know-how management;
  • Acquire, maintain and foster knowledge on CCSDS and ECSS standards, ground stations engineering related topics;
  • Certain activities will require travelling within Europe and/or going on business trips to remote sites where ground station are located such as Svalbard (Norway), and Turkey. These business trips could have durations of several weeks.

Skills and Experience

  • Background in Radar systems engineering, preferably involving the design, development, testing or maintenance of ground transponders. The experience shall also include:
    • Experience of development, installation and maintenance activities following established engineering processes, relevant standards and recommendations (e.g. STAN-AG/REC, ISO/IEC, etc.);
    • Competence and proven experience in Verification and Validation (V&V) activities, preferably in the area of Radar systems, their associated infrastructure and host site services;
  • Strong motivation to develop towards full professionalism in an international environment in the area of Ground Stations System Engineering;
  • Readiness to learn / expand the own knowledge combined with excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to work in a team;
  • For this role some of the following knowledge would be advantageous:
    • Space to Ground and Ground to Space communications systems including link budgets;
    • Radiometric measurements for satellite navigation;
    • Relevant experience in project management.

Employment Conditions

The initial contract will be of 4 years’ duration, with subsequent 5 year contracts being awarded thereafter, subject to individual performance and organisation 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.
This post is graded A2/A4 on the EUMETSAT salary scales. The minimum basic salary for this post is EURO 7,146 per month (net of internal tax but excluding pension contribution and insurances) 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.

Applicants are required to disclose all nationalities they have held and currently hold in order to determine whether they can exercise the role as advertised in compliance with applicable export control regulations.

About EUMETSAT

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. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.

As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.)
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