Product Assurance & Safety Support Engineer

About the role

HE Space, a space company active for over 40 years in managed services and human resources for the space sector, is hiring a Product Assurance & Safety Support Engineer in Noordwijk, Netherlands. The role supports ESA projects and programmes, covering product assurance and safety requirements, non-conformance handling, acceptance reviews and quality monitoring.

Key responsibilities

• Establish the product assurance and safety (PA&S) requirements baseline for projects and programmes in line with ESA policy, and produce the related documentation.
• Review contractor plans, specifications and effort for PA&S activities, and monitor project PA&S status, including NCRs, anomalies, failures, deviations, waivers and critical items, with action items and ad-hoc reporting.
• Assess how well contractors implement PA&S requirements and support the boards that handle non-conformance reviews, M&P, EEE and test reviews.
• Support quality assurance, process and system audits, mandatory and key inspection points, test witnessing and configuration inspections, and contribute to formal acceptance requirements and acceptance reviews.
• Provide technical support to review panels, prepare data packages, and coordinate the work of PA&S disciplines such as RAMS, SW PA, M&P, EEE and cleanliness and contamination.
• Prepare NRB or CCB meeting agendas and minutes, follow up on actions and support the close-out of non-conformances, waivers and problems.
• Take part in project meetings and safety reviews, support technology readiness assessments, witness MAIT activities, and support launch campaigns.
• Report on activities and PA&S status to the service manager, train internal and external parties, capture lessons learned, and build PA&S dashboards and trend analyses.
• Provide PA support to the ESA Technical Officer on R&D and technology development.

Required profile

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in the space sector, including 5 years in product and quality assurance.
• Proven record of product and quality assurance activities for spacecraft units; experience with spacecraft-level test campaigns is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, able to work in a diverse, multinational team.