Planning Engineer (M/F/D)

The GSOp Planner/Planning Engineer is responsible to create and implement in liaison with the Lead Service Delivery Manager a planning concept and to update it according to the evolving system and stakeholder requirements by introducing an adequate Software and process support. He/she ensures the Service Operations by providing multiple but consistent plans for the day-to-day operations as well as for the maintenance activities.

The tasks of the Planning Engineer are:

Work in liaison with the Service Delivery Manager (SDM) Team

Collecting all activities needed for Service Provision, planning the activities in three different time-frames, and keeping the stakeholders (Contracting Authority and Spaceopal teams) informed

Interface for all GSOp Planning issues across all SPO teams

Identifying and informing the stakeholders about planning conflicts, and suggesting solutions from the scheduling point of view

Pre-defining plans for the different disciplines, like Flight Operations, Ground Operations, Mission Operations, Security Operations and User Service

Participating to the Coordination Meetings as well as the Planning Meetings at the different time-frames and levels, by providing schedules and accessing solution to scheduling conflicts from a planning perspective

Supporting the Contracting Authority by preparing the Long-Term Plan and the Mid-Term Plan: Information Interface to the Contracting Authority in conjunction with the Lead SDM and the Evolution and Engineering Manager

Deriving the LEOP/IOT Timelines in coordination with the LEOP/IOT responsible persons in SPO as well as all affected SPO CTMs

Supporting the Service Provision Prediction as well as providing support to the Key Performance Indicator Measurements

Tracking each planned activity in the different time-frames and providing feed-back

Supporting the evolution to an integrated planning, configuration and resources management system

The project schedule has to be respected for all planning tasks

The arrangement of operations and deployment should also be scheduled by means of the planning system; the same applies to the evolution releases

The Planning Engineer should support the resource and availability management for scheduling a consistent plan

University degree in a relevant field (e.g. Commercial Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Telecommunications or Electronics)

Significant experience on operations engineering, operations preparation and execution. Experience related to developments and operations in the Galileo project (GIOVE, IOV, FOC) will be beneficial

Good communication skills and the capability to work in a complex environment with multiple layers of processes

Strong attitude to team work, also leveraging resources not directly dependent on him/her

Good practical and analytical skills desirable

Fluent written and spoken English, fluency in Italian and/or German is appreciated

Fluency in standard office automation tools (MS Office, Email, Internet, etc.)

SPO HQ

It could be necessary to spend time periodically at the GCC-D (Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany) and/or at the GCC-I (Fucino, Italy)

It could be necessary to participate to meetings in the above locations and in other relevant project locations in Europe.

Spaceopal is the prime service operations contractor for the European Galileo Satellite Navigation System and manages all Galileo Service Operations. The awarded European Commission (EC) contract to Spaceopal is more than just its satellites in space. Galileo Service Operations will provide high-quality positioning, navigation and timing services to users across the whole world as a civil-controlled service with guaranteed continuity of coverage.

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