About this role
X Product Assurance & Safety (PA&S) Engineer Job Requisition ID: 20846 Date Posted: 10 August 2026 Closing Date: 31 August 2026 23:59 CET/CEST Publication: Internal & External Type of Appointment : 4 years, extendable to indefinite Directorate: Technology, Engineering and Quality Workplace: Noordwijk, NL Location ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands Description You will be assigned to the Navigation (NAV) Product Assurance and Safety Office (TEC-QN) to work as Product Assurance and Safety Engineer, supporting assigned projects in the Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity (RNC) Directorate. You will report hierarchically to the Head of the NAV Space Segment Product Assurance and Safety Unit and functionally to the Project Manager(s) of the project(s) you will be supporting. Initially, you will be assigned as support for the Galileo Second Generation project. For the maintenance of professional standards, the implementation of ESA's general Product Assurance and Safety policy and contributions to corporate tasks (such as reviews, standardisation, alerts, lessons learned, etc.), you will report to the Head of the Quality Department through the Head of the NAV Product Assurance and Safety Office. Duties Your specific responsibilities and duties will include: - defining or supporting the definition of general and project-specific programmatic and technical requirements in compliance with the applicable product assurance and safety (PA&S) requirements, the PA&S Office's approach and the ESA policy; - reviewing contractors' plans, specifications and effort proposed for implementing the project's PA&S programme; - guiding and monitoring the implementation of PA&S requirements by contractors in order to assess performance and effectiveness, participating in project reviews and addressing any preventive or corrective actions; - planning, coordinating and monitoring any PA&S support for the project team; - representing ESA ...