Product Assurance & Safety Support Engineer [26126]

HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years. HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and provide highly skilled consulting.

Job Description

The role supports Product Assurance and Safety activities across ESA projects and programmes.

• Establish PA&S requirements baselines and produce compliant PA&S documentation.
• Review contractor plans, specifications and proposed PA&S activities.
• Monitor PA&S status, NCRs, anomalies, failures, deviations, waivers, problems and critical items.
• Assess implementation of PA&S requirements by ESA contractors.
• Support non-conformance, failure, materials and processes, EEE and test review boards.
• Monitor manufacturing, integration and test activities, including audits, inspection points, test witnessing and configuration inspections.
• Define formal acceptance requirements and support Acceptance Reviews.
• Support project reviews, technical panels and project data-package preparation.
• Coordinate PA&S discipline experts, including RAMS, software PA, materials and processes, EEE, cleanliness and contamination.
• Prepare NRB or CCB agendas and minutes, track actions and support issue close-out.
• Support safety reviews, technology readiness assessments, MAIT activities and launch campaigns.
• Report PA&S activities and status to the service manager and ESA.
• Support training, lessons learned, knowledge retention, dashboards and trend analyses.
• Provide PA support to the ESA Technical Officer for R&D and technology development.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the space sector, including 5 years in Product and Quality Assurance.
• Proven experience in Product and Quality Assurance activities for spacecraft units.
• Experience with spacecraft-level test campaigns is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to work comfortably in a diverse, multinational team environment.
• Problem-solving mindset and strong delivery capability.

Additional Information

This job is located in Noordwijk, Netherlands. The role may require frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe, including resident support and launch campaigns.

Applicants should send a CV in English in Word or PDF format, quoting job NL-HP-26126. Last apply date: 30/09/2026.

HE Space is committed to gender diversity, inclusivity and a respectful working environment.