Product Assurance & Safety Support Engineer (Space)

Location: Noordwijk, Netherlands

Company

HE Space is an international space-sector services and consulting company providing engineering expertise and managed services across European space programmes.

What you will do

• Establish and maintain Product Assurance and Safety requirements baselines, documentation, dashboards, and trend analyses for ESA projects and programmes.
• Review contractor plans, specifications, proposed activities, and implementation of Product Assurance and Safety requirements.
• Monitor non-conformances, anomalies, failures, deviations, waivers, problems, critical items, and related corrective actions through closure.
• Support manufacturing, integration, testing, inspections, audits, test witnessing, configuration inspections, and acceptance reviews.
• Prepare and support review boards, project meetings, safety reviews, technical reviews, minutes, reports, and project data packages.
• Coordinate Product Assurance and Safety experts across RAMS, software assurance, materials and processes, EEE, cleanliness, and contamination disciplines; support technology assessments, launch campaigns, training, and lessons learned.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the space sector, including at least 5 years in Product and Quality Assurance.
• Proven experience delivering Product and Quality Assurance activities for spacecraft units.
• Strong interpersonal, organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse, multinational environment and deliver against project requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with spacecraft-level test campaigns.

Culture & Benefits

• International working environment within the European space sector.
• Potential for frequent and prolonged missions in and outside Europe during manufacturing, integration, testing, and launch campaigns.
• Opportunities to contribute to major European space programmes and technology-development activities.
• Inclusive workplace committed to respect, gender diversity, and equal opportunity.