Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?
The Project Management Support Engineer will play a key role in supporting the Department of Programme Preparation and Development (PRD) at EUMETSAT. This position contributes directly to the successful design, development, and delivery of operational meteorological satellite systems.
This position is essential to ensuring that programmes are delivered efficiently, in compliance with technical standards, and in alignment with EUMETSAT’s strategic objectives.
About the client and location
The European Organisation for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is a political organisation comprising of 30 European member states. EUMETSAT operates satellites to monitor weather, climate, and the changing environment. They are responsible for helping to isolate potentially dangerous weather conditions that could affect air travel, farming and other key service industries.
Tasks and activities
The scope of work will include:
- Supporting project scheduling updates and critical path analysis by providing input to identified interfaces.
- Managing risk tracking, reporting, reviews, and mitigation closure.
- Contributing to the harmonised weekly salient by consolidating team inputs and producing a combined weekly activity report, as required.
- Preparing monthly KPI inputs for Risk and Action Management, using Confluence as required.
- Preparing presentations and synthesized reports for internal and external purposes
- Supporting Programme/Project Reviews through task inputs and management coordination.
- Contributing to the Action Management and regular check of the action status by using of the JIRA action tracking system.
- Tracking actions, analysing and reporting critical issues, and supporting the timely closure off these actions.
- Participating in team management meetings and in meetings with partner agencies, contractors and internal stake holders.
- Maintaining core project management documentation in coordination with the project control team.
- Updating relevant management documentation, with a particular focus on materials related to the acceptance process and associated deliveries.
- Contributing to subsystem development follow-up by monitoring deliverables to and from partner agencies and industry, whilst also supporting the review of those deliverables.
- Tracking progress against development plans, highlighting potential deviations, and proposing measures to minimise delays. This includes reviewing progress reports from systems, subsystems, sub-segments, and services.
- Supporting baseline definition control, including evaluating Change Requests, Change Proposals and Requests for Waivers/Deviations.
Skills and experience
The following skills and experience are mandatory:
- University degree in engineering, science or a related field.
- At least five years of experience in project management for large, complex development projects in the aerospace or a comparable high-technology domain.
- Ability to work in a structured, systematic manner, able to plan tasks effectively and manage tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated experience of defining system interactions and successfully implementing them in a large project.
- Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures and processes.
- Knowledge of systems development lifecycle.
- Ability to make synthesis from various written or verbal inputs.
- Strong computer skills with experience using MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.)
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
The below skills and experience are highly desirable;
- Experience working on collaborative programmes involving multiple partner organisations.
- Certification in project management or related project management disciplines.
- Experience in Space programme ground‑segment development and/or Earth‑observation systems development.
Why should you apply?
- You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
- We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
- To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
- Benefits include competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome applications from all candidates, irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious beliefs, age, disability or other characteristics.
As part of our commitment to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process, we will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.
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