17/214049 MTG Verification Engineer

Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

Main Responsibilities

The general task of the candidate will be the provision of advice and engineering support to the MTG System & GS Requirements Verification Engineering in the frame of the Phase C/D of the MTG Programme.

It is expected that the tasks will include as a minimum:

• Contribution to the preparation, execution and reporting of the MTG requirements verification engineering activities, including;
• Support the refinement of the pre-launch system verification strategy at the level of individual requirements with the elaboration of the Initial Verification Control Document (VCD) at System and Ground Segment levels, ensuring the consistency of the verification approach with lower levels using the traceability of requirements;
• Perform the progressive establishment of the MTG verification status for each requirement, maintaining the verification status of the System and Ground Segment levels in close-coordination with the status of the lower levels;
• Review the VCDs produced at lower levels and report on inconsistencies then ingest them in the upper level VCDs;
• Contribute to the generation of the Verification Control Document (VCD) and associated verification reports in-line with the results of the Detailed Design Phase and the results of the of the testing execution ;
• Contribute to the definition of the test scenarios and tests specifications regarding the list of requirements to be verified by testing in-line with VCD;
• Prepare inputs to Verification Control Boards (VCB) and other Adhoc meetings as requested;
• Generate periodic reports with quantitative metrics and indicators on the status of verification of the whole system and alert on the outcome of those;
• The set-up and maintenance of the verification support tools necessary in support to the verification control activity in DOORS in coordination with the DOORS maintenance & administration team including;
• The set-up and maintenance of the tool for the generation of the initial and final VCD in DOORS and its daily administration, with the development of Adhoc DXL scripts and views required for the execution of the verification control in DOORS;
• The tools for the ingestion into EUMETSAT DOORS database of external VCD as delivered from the contractor.

In the performance of these tasks, the candidate should apply the relevant organisational and programmatic quality management procedures as well as the relevant system engineering standards.

Successful Candidate

The candidate should have a University degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline relevant to the job profile together with the experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks without supervision.

He/she shall have, as a pre-requisite, a demonstrated experience in a similar function for at least 5 years. This experience shall include in particular:

• Past System Engineering working experience in the development of a Space System with characteristics and complexity similar to the complexity of MTG System, - including in particular experience during Phases C/D/E1;
• Experience in the preparation and in the execution of the integration and verification of a Space System (Spacecraft, Ground Segment or full System): including the generation of tests specifications and procedures, the execution and reporting of these tests and the definition of the verification status of all associated requirements;
• Knowledge of verification and testing standards and in particular of the ECSS standards;
• Experience in verification engineering including the management of the traceability of requirements and the management of their formal verification status;
• Proven experience of DOORS utilisation for requirements and verification management as well as knowledge of DOORS administration and programming with DXL scripts.

In addition, the knowledge and experience of the following would also be considered an advantage:

• Experience in requirements engineering including the management of the traceability of requirements;

The candidate should also possess the following skills and behavioural aspects:

• Sound management and interpersonal skills to conduct the responsibilities described above autonomously yet within a good team spirit;
• Excellent quality orientation skills, applying a strong sense of rigorousness and precision in the execution of his work;
• Good oral and written communications skills, as well as good analytical capabilities, enabling him/her to present articulated views, opinions and recommendations.

The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the candidate must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other.

Please note that the closing date for applications is on 27/04/2017.

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About The Company

Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 60,000 employees worldwide.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 60,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you