Product Assurance & Safety Manager (multiple positions)

The Product Assurance and Safety (PA&S) Manager will be assigned to the Science PA&S Office, Quality Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality. The Science PA&S Office provides support to the missions and activities of the Directorate of Science for PA&S management and coordination. Upon joining the Science PA&S Office, you will assume the role of PA&S Manager for either the EnVision project or another project in the Directorate of Science, and you will become part of the related Project Core Team. While reporting hierarchically to the Head of the Science PA&S Office, you will report functionally to the relevant Project Manager of the Directorate of Science for the specific responsibilities and duties outlined below. Your tasks and responsibilities will include: establishing and maintaining the PA&S requirements baseline in compliance with ESA policies; ensuring the implementation of the PA&S requirements by industry and other supplying parties (e.g. instrument providers), supporting milestone reviews and participating in the process of verifying compliance with requirements; monitoring the implementation of approved plans and specifications from industry and other supplying parties (e.g. instrument providers), ensuring that adequate resources are deployed for the implementation of the PA&S programme; coordinating the technical aspects of relevant service support and acting as the primary point of contact between service functions and project teams; planning, coordinating and monitoring the support provided by the assigned PA&S workforce; participating in the boards for the disposition of deviations from the requirements baseline (CCB), and of changes to the agreed design; representing ESA in the boards established for the disposition of non-conformances and anomalies, and the definition and monitoring of relevant corrective and preventive actions (NRB), for failure investigations, and for project technical reviews (e.g. MRR, TRR, PTR or TRB); ensuring the implementation of the reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) programme and the software assurance programme, including their support for design trade-off decisions and verification of requirements; monitoring the selection, procurement and use of electrical, electronic and electromechanical (EEE) components, and materials, mechanical parts and processes (MMPP); ensuring the monitoring of the manufacturing, assembly, integration and test activities through mandatory and key inspection points, test witnessing, quality assurance checks, etc.; conducting the acceptance reviews of all contractual deliverable items; reviewing the safety data packages from industry and other supplying parties (e.g. instrument providers) as needed, ensuring that they are made available on time to the corresponding safety authorities, and supporting safety reviews and other key events for ground and launch safety; supervising PA&S activities during the launch campaign; performing any other PA&S tasks necessary to ensure a safe and successful mission. In carrying out these tasks, you will receive support from experts from the ESA Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality. In addition to your project responsibilities, you will support the Head of the Science PA & Safety Office for improvement activities and cross-project coordination.