Job Description

HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years.

We hire space experts all over Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, from engineering to science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. Our employees contribute towards a wide range of groundbreaking space programmes including Galileo and Copernicus, ExoMars, Iris2, ESA BASS, ESA GSPT, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers as well as the International Space Station.

HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.

We are passionate about people and invest in you to support the development of the European space industry.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

The Payload Integration Manager is responsible for managing the integration of the assigned payload activities during the International Space Station (ISS) exploitation phase by performing the following tasks within the Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations:

• Support the generation and negotiation of (International Partner) agreements (e.g. ESA PIA, ESA-NASA PIA, JIP, JUP, etc) if these agreements are required;
• Review and analyse the Experiment Science Requirements (ESR); suggest changes if needed and present results to the board;
• Support the preparation of the Research Directive (RD);
• Responsible for: CEF preparation and submittal and Manifest Request (MR) preparation and submittal;
• Responsible for the generation of ESA and NASA PIAs;
• Support the relevant payload development reviews (e.g. Critical Design Review (CDR), Final Acceptance Review (FAR));
• Support the analytical integration activities of payloads into Columbus;
• Support the integration activities of payloads into IP elements;
• Support the Flight Safety and Integrated Safety process of payloads;
• Support the resolution of SPRs;
• Support the Logistics service for cargo transportation and integration;
• Support the hardware operations nomenclature (OpNom) request process;
• Support the development of label plans and label requests;
• Support the User Support and Operations Centres (USOCs);
• Responsible for generating a monthly PIM report and PIM schedule for each allocated payload;
• Responsible for generating and submitting an integrated CoFR data package for each allocated payload, as per schedule provided in the increment CoFR letter and plan;
• Responsible for creating (and eventually closing) any OW identified in the integrated CoFR data package.

Qualifications

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

• University degree (Msc) or equivalent qualification in engineering or science (biology, medicine, physics, chemistry) discipline;
• Demonstrated experience in aerospace or human spaceflight activities management, including development, integration and on-orbit operations activities of complex payloads;
• Results oriented, good communicator with strong stakeholder management skills;
• A strong aptitude for relationship management as well as good communication skills;
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

Additional Information

This job is located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) by clicking on the button “Apply for this job” quoting job NL-HP-26109.

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