Flight Engineer

Flight Engineer

D-Orbit

Fino Mornasco, Italy

As Spaceflight Operation Engineer you will be tasked of commanding and controlling D-Orbit's Fleet of Carriers and Reconnaissance and Servicing Vessels. From D-Orbit's mission control centre, you will conduct end-to-end mission operations, from design to execution, from launch to final deorbiting. Activities like satellite tasking, telemetry dump and post-processing, contingency and ground operations, failure detections and recovery as long as operations planning and scheduling, and flight dynamics will be part of D-Orbit's Spaceflight Operations team duties.

Tasks

• Command and control the company's proprietary satellites and their payloads;
• Detailed operations requirements and design definitions;
• Interfacing with all subsystems and software team to define use cases, on-ground and on-orbit operations;
• Support to ground systems and integration with space segment;
• On-orbit operations procedures definitions and verification;
• On-orbit operations planning, scheduling and execution throughout the missions;
• Flight dynamics maintenance and manoeuvre planning;
• Anomaly identification and resolution;
• Authoring of Technical documents.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Knowledge of System Engineering, Orbital and Attitude Dynamics;
• Knowledge of Spaceflight Operations;
• Knowledge of flight dynamics tools (Orekit, GMAT, etc.);
• Knowledge of Ground Segment architectures;
• Experience with scripting languages (Python);
• Availability to work outside normal office working hours;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Proactive attitude and ability to work in team and individually;
• Experience in spaceflight operations and/or AIV processes is a strong plus;
• Knowledge of spaceflight dynamics and manoeuvre planning is a strong plus;
• Familiarity with On-Board Control Procedures concepts is a plus.

Education

• Advanced University degree (master's degree or equivalent), preferably in Aerospace/Space Engineering.

Language

• Full professional proficiency of English language is mandatory.

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