Product Assurance Engineer - IRIS2

Hispasat, as part of the SpaceRISE consortium, is responsible for the technical implementation and ensuring the success of the IRIS² project, leveraging its extensive experience in satellite communications. This collaboration is essential to provide secure and reliable high-performance communication solutions to the European Union and its member states.

To be part of this project, we are looking for a Product Assurance Engineer whose responsibilities will be as follows:

Activities:

* Support to the definition, design, development and oversight of a telecommunications satellite constellation program in the areas of Product and Quality Assurance disciplines
* Monitor and control all the technical and management aspects of the Quality Assurance disciplines, during spacecraft, subsystem, unit and sub-assembly design, manufacturing and test phases: selection and procurement of electrical & electronic parts, selection and qualification of materials and processes, reliability, safety, hardware and software quality assurance, configuration control
* Oversee and control the work carried out by manufacturer to ensure the adequate implementation of IRIS2 product/quality assurance requirements throughout the program,
* Provide Hispasat IRIS2 Program office with a high level of spacecraft technical product assurance expertise for all activities associated with the design, development, manufacturing and tests of spacecrafts,
* Monitor the PA activities during the spacecraft, platform and payload assembly, integration and test activities at the contractor facilities,
* Participate in project design and test reviews at multiple levels (system, satellite and unit),
* Interact with the end-to-end system development team to ensure requirements traceability and associated verification plan,
* Carry out the hardware & software acceptance reviews in coordination with the program office,
* Manage the non-conformance control system. To assess technical residual risks associated to the non-conformances and waivers, and decide on their acceptability


Responsibilities:

* Preparation and participation in unit design, manufacturing and testing review meetings
* Preparation and participation in subsystem design, manufacturing and testing review meetings
* Preparation and participation in system design, manufacturing and testing review meetings
* Preparation and participation in Mandatory Inspection Points at unit, subsystem and satellite levels
* Preparation and participation in Parts, Materials and Processes Control Boards
* Preparation and participation in program audits
* Preparation and participation in the launch campaign
* Preparation and participation in the In Orbit Test Campaign
* Preparation of weekly reports of activities

* Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or similar
* 10-year experience on a similar position with hands-on experience or exposure in either satellite procurement, satellite equipment manufacturing or payload/platform in-orbit operations in GEO and/or LEO
* Experience in managing large EU and ESA projects
* Deep knowledge of space qualified parts, materials and processes for Payload and Platform equipment
* Deep knowledge of space product and quality assurance standards
* Deep knowledge of equipment inspection techniques for Payload and Platform equipment
* Deep knowledge of reliability engineering activities: reliability prediction analysis, FMECA, parts stress analysis, work case analysis, critical ite