Company Description
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. We hire space experts across Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, including engineering, science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. 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
As part of the Business Management & Administration domain, you will support the planning, preparation, execution and follow-up of project and programme activities involving schedules, procurement actions, costs, Cost-at-Completion preparation, manpower, resource planning and procurement activities.
- Assist in preparing, developing and maintaining programme-level plans.
- Define and maintain work, procurement, execution and contract action plans using local tools.
- Monitor programme implementation and prepare reports and management information.
- Prepare and monitor long-term, medium-term and in-year resource plans.
- Perform forecasting, identify deviations and recovery actions, and produce reports.
- Review ESA internal expenditures for consistency with the Cost-at-Completion of industrial contracts.
- Support agency tender actions and proposal evaluations, including price and schedule analysis.
- Support financial contract commitments and milestone payment plan data entry.
- Maintain procurement information in ESA-p and local applications.
- Support industrial invoicing, payment verification and control.
- Update and verify industrial return databases and support programme and project risk management.
- Support the definition and improvement of processes and tools and the execution of the directorate’s risk management process.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent, MBA or equivalent university degree, or equivalent qualification in Business Administration.
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, such as project controlling.
- Previous experience or knowledge of Agency activities is an advantage.
- Ability to assimilate and coordinate input data and provide timely output.
- Reliability, rigour, initiative, analytical, organisational and reporting skills.
- Proficiency with IT tools; SAP and ESA applications or IT tools are an asset.
- Fluency in English is mandatory; another European language is an advantage.
Additional Information
This job is located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Please submit your CV in English in Word or PDF format, quoting job NL-HP-26191. The last application date is 31/12/2026.
HE Space is committed to an inclusive and respectful working environment and encourages all applications and profiles.