Structures Engineer

Telespazio Belgium 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 Belgium has an on‑site service at ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we are looking for a highly skilled Structures Engineer to work there.

Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration

• Assist the Agency in the implementation of Structural Engineering for all Agency projects and programs throughout all the development phases, ranging from conceptual design studies to Flight Acceptance Reviews. This task includes providing support to projects with respect to definition of specifications, support to design reviews, support to structural test programs, etc.
• Assist the Agency in solving specific structural design, and verification issues encountered by ESA projects.
• Assist in the identification and implementation of enabling structures technology activities for future ESA missions relevant to the ESA future mission planning, including definition of requirements.
• Support and contribute to the establishment and maintenance of relevant Structures Engineering Standards and Handbooks.

• Support spacecraft and launcher configuration studies for Agency projects. This includes operating CAD tools and participation in Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) sessions at ESTEC.
• Perform mass, inertia and balance calculations and relevant budget assessments.
• Issue relevant documentation covering all configuration definition aspects, and where necessary shall support the configuration definition by preliminary structural analyses using FEM models.
• Ensure CAD interfaces and configuration data transfer with Agency contractors via international standards.
• Ensure the interface between the CAD systems and the relevant FEM tools to enable further evaluation of the structural behaviour.
• Contribute to the further development of the Structures and Configuration tools deployed in the Agency, including in the CDF.
• Support progress meetings and reviews in support to Agency projects.
• Support the updating and maintenance of CAD and FE models databases.
• Support and contribute to the establishment and maintenance of relevant Structures Engineering Standards and Handbooks.

• Support the generation and set-up of structural mathematical models using the finite element method for structural analysis problems for Agency funded projects, taking into account the specific objectives of such analysis, covering all structural materials applied in spacecraft and launchers. Where necessary non-linear approaches and specific solution sequences shall be applied/developed (e.g. Nastran SOL 600, Mecano, Abaqus).
• Perform the analysis, evaluate critically the results and issue relevant documentation covering all analysis steps.
• Support the generation and set-up of mathematical models for structural elastic stability problems for Agency funded projects, taking into account specific requirements attached to this type of analysis.
• Perform stability analysis leading to the determination of buckling loads and deformations. Where necessary the post buckling behaviour shall be addressed, adequate non-linear approaches used, and where relevant specific solution sequences shall be developed.
• Evaluate critically the results, and issue relevant documentation covering all analysis steps
• Support the generation and set-up of mathematical models for structural…