Product Assurance Engineer

**Description**:
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

**Requirements**:

- 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 item control, availability and outage analysis
- Demonstrated skills in the area of manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing oversight at unit, subsystem and satellite levels
- Demonstrated skills in the area of units and satellite equipment and facilities requirements for manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing
- Strong knowledge of software development environment

Recommendable:

- Highly collaborative individual, able to build relationships internally and externally across all levels and functions.
- Capacity to deal with complex situations with assertiveness.

Other Requirements:

- Native to a EU member state and willing to Native to an EU member state and willing to undergo an EU secret clearance process.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, any other European language is considered as an asset.

**Location**:
Madrid/Toulouse;
Platform and/or Payload Manufacturer facilities, resident as required;
Platform and/or Payload Unit manufacturer facilities, as required;
ESTEC, as required;
European Commission, as required;
Satellite manufacturer premises, during System AIT Phase, resident as required
Launch Base, as required;
Satellite IOT station, as required.

Be able to provide 24/7 on-call support during satellite system and Payload/Platform testing.