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 will be soon looking for a highly skilled
Systems engineering support to projects to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.
What Is Expected From You
- Support the activities of the section in space segment systems engineering.
- Provide space segment systems engineering support and consultancy to ESA projects, programmes and studies throughout all the project phases;
- Provide support for project reviews;
- Assist in requirement management including support reviewing requirements flow-down from Space Segment System to subsystems/units, including interfaces, and help maintain requirement traceability and the requirements database / VCD (Verification Control Document).
- Support identification of main system drivers for design, evaluation, and trade studies, and assist project design trade-off discussions.
- Contribute to the consolidation and tracking of system budgets across the project lifecycle to support compliance checks.
- Provide support to verification activities at mission/ground level, including support to handle non-conformances, deviations, and waivers.
- Assist with maintaining and updating space segment system interfaces with the other segment elements (like ground).
- Contribute to operations concept discussions and support FDIR (Failure, Detection, Isolation and Recovery) definition.
- Provide inputs for project reporting, highlight possible risk areas, and support implementation of agreed improvements or mitigation measures.
- Collaborate with operations, ground segment, and (when needed) End-toEnd/Mission system teams.
- Provide support during launch preparation, in-flight commissioning, and verification activities with project and ground teams.
- Contribute to the implementation of the Zero Debris Policy.
- Participate in CDF studies as Systems Engineering support.
- Support the Section’s activities related to ESA technology programmes and R&D initiatives.
What You Offer
- Master's Degree in Physics or Engineering.
- Experience in participating to reviews
- Experience with procurement and technical monitoring of industrial activities
- Experience with Space Engineering Standards and their preparation and implementation
- Knowledge of Space Missions and Spacecraft Systems Design
- Understanding of space systems architectures
- Systems Engineering in the early project phases (trade-offs, budgets, identification of critical technology developments, etc)
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
