GNC Engineer

Are you an experienced GNC Engineer with strong background in satellites? Would you like to be part of a rapidly expanding space technology company working with some highly respected organisation across the industry. As GNC Engineer you will not only be part of a friendly, supportive team, and rewarded with a highly competitive salary and pension etc. You would be responsible for: Contributing to Guidance, Navigation and Control systems and design activities for missions: derive and maintain AOCS (Attitude & Orbit Control System)/GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) sub-system requirements. Supporting the development of GNC hardware architecture, trade-off analysis of hardware towards an overall GNC hardware solution. Supporting trade-off and selection of GNC equipment. Contributing to system level activities, such as: developing mission CONOPS (Concept of Operations), defining FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis) and FDIR (Fault/Failure Detection, Isolation, and Recovery) processes and design, system test and verification activities. Contributing to current development-focussed GNC activities as well as future production-focussed GNC activities e.g. QA (Quality Assurance) processes. To be considered for the GNC Engineer role you will need to: Be educated to Degree or MSc level in electrical engineering or equivalent Have experience of designing highly fault-tolerant aspects of GNC systems e.g. fault-tolerant algorithm / software design, RPO (Rendezvous & Proximity Operations) fault detection etc. Have experience of GNC Hardware AIT (Assembly, Integration and Test). Have experience of Design-for-Test methodologies. Have practical working knowledge of digital electronics relevant to a GNC system (communications protocols, satellite Command & Data Handling, digital integration to enable Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing etc) Bluestream Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer and operates as an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and an as an Employment Business for temporary / contract recruitment. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89947723