Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.
We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.
The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.
On behalf of the European Space Agency, we are looking for a highly skilled Standardisation Engineer to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.
What is expected from you:
ESA Executive secretariat support for the European Cooperation for Space Standardisation (ECSS)
- Support the application of the relevant ECSS policy and processes applied by the ECSS Executive secretariat (e.g. ECSS Policy | European Cooperation for Space Standardization).
- Support the application of the ESA standardisation handbook (ESSB-D-000) for ESA internal standardisation processes.
- Support the application of the two ESA QMS procedures for standardisation (ESA-TECQ-PR-023169 ECSS processes), and ESA-TECQES-PR-024184 for
- ECSS training courses organisation if required.
- Ensure daily administration, operation and admin liaison for the ECSS secretariat provided by ESA to ECSS (i.e. ECSS inbox, ECSS website, administrative correspondence (letters, e-mails), admin support to ECSS stakeholders and external bodies).
- Support the ECSS Technical Authority (TA) annual workplan implementation at secretariat level, and the ECSS TA members quarterly meetings (from agenda preparation to the final MoM and actions/decisions follow-up in ESA and ECSS),
- Provide support to the ECSS WG members, and the STAN engineers to configure, operate, maintain the new ECSS data centre.
- Support the STAN engineers and the processes for the ECSS Digitalisation, prototyping and implementation/testing in 2025 and full operation in 2026.
- Ensure Configuration control for all ECSS documents as per ECSS rules.
- Support the Standardisation engineers in the team for tasks relevant to ECSS administration, documents production/review/update/interfaces
- to DOORs/Polaris.
- Monitor and support the controlled access to the ECSS website for the identified users and new users, support end-users with the ECSS collaborative
- environment platform and the evolution.
What you offer:
- Master Degree in the relevant field.
- Knowledge and experience with space engineering standardisation bodies and standards.
What we offer:
- A competitive salary
- 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
- Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
- Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
- Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
- A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
- A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
- Travel allowance;
- Extensive relocation package
Where:
You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.
Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC
When:
Deadline to apply: 13/11/2025
Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC
We look forward to receiving your application for this position!
