ICT vacatures Groningen

Telespazio BeNeLux can count on more than 45 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency, EUSPA and other Telespazio Groups. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

Telespazio BeNeLux has an on-site service at ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we are looking for 2 highly skilled PA and Safety Support Engineers to work there.

• Supporting the establishment of the PA&S requirements baseline for all elements of the project(s)/programme(s), in compliance with the ESA general Product Assurance and Safety policy; produce PA&S documentation with defined inputs, outputs, responsibilities, interfaces, and relevant associated efforts in compliance with applicable requirements and procedures;
• Contributing to the review of ESA contractor's plans, specifications, and effort proposed for the execution of the project(s)/programme(s) PA&S activities.
• Supporting the monitoring of project PA&S status, and the identification of relevant issues, including NCR, anomalies, failure and associated failure analysis, deviations, waivers, general Problems/Critical Items, and systematically tracking them (including Action Items (AIs) with generation of ad-hoc reporting.
• Helping in the assessment of the implementation of PA&S requirements by ESA contractors.
• Supporting the Boards established within the project(s)/programme(s), for the disposition of Non-conformances/Failure Reviews, M&P, EEE, Test Reviews, etc.
• Providing support to the monitoring of the manufacturing, integration, and test activities by helping on quality assurance / process / system audits, mandatory and key inspection points, test witnessing and configuration inspections. This includes Participation to inspection activities (MIPs, KIPs), reporting and provide recommendations to ESA project.
• Contributing to the definition the formal acceptance requirements and to the Acceptance Reviews (AR) of all contractual deliverable items.
• Support the preparation of the formal acceptance requirements in terms of steps, inputs, outputs, participants, responsibilities, interfaces, and, together with the ESA PA Manager / Engineer, coordinating efforts of participants to produce consolidated inputs to project / programme documents.
• Support projects reviews by providing technical support to panel members and/or experts and, when requested, taking part in the review panels. Support the preparation and review of project data-packages.
• Supporting the Project Manager or/and the project PA Manager the organisation and coordination from all PA&S disciplines experts (e.g. RAMS, SW PA, M&P, EEE, Cleanliness & Contamination, etc).
• Support the Project Manager or/and the project PA Manager; contributing to the assessment and monitoring of NCRs / Waivers / Deviations / Problems / Critical Items.
• Support the preparation of NRB or CCB meeting agendas as required, checking that all inputs are available and checking that all needed participants are involved. Contribute to the production of NRB or CCB minutes of meeting as required, help in following-up on actions identified and support proper non-conformance / waiver / problem / critical item close-out.
• Contributing to project meetings, and reviews, including safety reviews and support them within the assigned role (e.g. Secretary, reviewer, participant). Produce draft minutes / reports of the reviews / meetings if required.
• Support technology readiness assessments.
• Witnessing of MAIT activities including, when applicable, long term/resident support in industry or other research establishments (may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe).
• Supporting Launch Campaigns in the frame of the PA&S activities (may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe).
• Reporting on the performed activities via the service manager, and in general on the PA&S status of the project(s) / programme(s), in accordance to the frequency, content and format indicated by ESA.
• Support the training of internal and external entities.
• Contribute to capturing project(s) / programme(s) lessons learned and to knowledge capture and retention.
• Support the establishment of PA&S dashboards and trend analyses.
• Providing PA support to ESA Technical Officer in the execution of R&D and technology development.

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline is required.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in the space sector including 5 years in Product and Quality Assurance.
• Experience working on Navigation and/or IRIS² programmes is desirable.
• Proven record of Product and Quality Assurance activities for spacecraft units.
• Experience with test campaigns at spacecraft level is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities, and comfortable working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
• Problem solving mindset and high capacity to deliver are highly considered.

• A competitive salary
• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
• Travel allowance;
• Extensive relocation package

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency's offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio BeNeLux. We don't expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

Deadline to apply: 26/10/2026

Please note that interviews will be held via Teams.