Head of The Modelling and Simulation Excellence

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Noordwijk, Nederland European Space Agency Voltijd

Head of the Modelling and Simulation Excellence Section

**Job Requisition ID**:19121**Date Posted**:13 November 2024**Closing Date**:4 December 2024 23:59 CET/CEST**Publication**:Internal & External**Type of Contract**:Permanent**Directorate**:Technology, Engineering and Quality**Workplace**:Noordwijk, NL**Grade Band**:A2 - A4

**Location**
ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands**Description**
Head of the Modelling and Simulation Excellence Section in the Future Engineering Division, Systems Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.
advanced simulation technologies
- data modelling and ontologies
- databases and tools to support procedure engineering and automation of processes
- data management technologies
- advanced human computer interaction, including extended reality and UX design
- support for ESA projects and programme directorates with expertise within the scope of the Section, including specification and development in all phases of a project
You will be responsible for the management of the Section, its resources and its activities. You will also interface with all ESA programmes to anticipate and prepare the Agency for future technical competences and tools in your domain. In addition, you will be accountable within the Agency for the outcome of operational activities conducted within the Section’s technical domains.
Finally, you will be required to carry out and contribute to operational activities within the Section’s technical domains, in line with the implementation of the matrix structure for project support. You will also actively support the Agency’s digitalisation initiatives within the Section’s technical domains.

**Duties**
Within the technical domains defined above, your tasks and responsibilities as a manager will include the following:

R&D/technology management:

- In line with anticipated technology trends and project needs, defining, promoting and implementing the Section’s contributions to ESA technology programmes and R&D activities;
- Coordinating, where applicable, the requirements of technology elements in your domain of expertise with the overall requirements of systems being developed under the responsibility of other areas in the Directorate;
- Liaising with relevant technology expert groups and coordination mechanisms.
General and leadership:

- Ensuring a positive and motivating working environment for the Section;
- Communicating ESA values and ensuring compliance with all ESA policies;
- Establishing good working relationships and technical networks with users, project groups and other organisations both inside and outside the Agency.
Talent management:

- Maintaining state-of-the-art expertise in the Section by identifying, developing, maintaining and tracking the technical competences needed to meet current and future strategic needs;
- Driving the development of people within your area of responsibility;
- Managing staff functional mobility and changes (arrivals, departures, reassignments, probation and contract extensions) with minimum disruption to the activities of the Section.
Expertise offering: management of tools/processes/working methods:

- Ensuring regular interaction between the Section members, supporting teamwork, the exchange of experience and lessons learned, and the gathering of feedback;
- Contributing to the independent technical assessment capability and supporting project reviews;
- Representing the Agency in your areas of expertise within ESA and with external entities (industry, delegations, etc.);
- Coordinating the dissemination of the Section’s results within and beyond ESA, in particular via conferences, workshops and R&D presentation days.
Laboratories:

- Assuming the technical responsibility for the Modelling and Simulation Laboratory.
Support management:

- Monitoring, measuring and reporting on performance at individual and team level, in particular regarding the Section’s objectives;
- Being accountable to the hierarchy for all the daily matters within the Section and for the achievement of the Section’s objectives.
Workload assessment and assignment:

- Establishing the multi-year plan of activities for the Section, covering required competences and assignment of resources;
- Establishing annual objectives and managing/coordinating on a day-to-day basis specialised technical support in the Section’s fields of expertise, in full collaboration with the functional managers;
- Actively contributing to increasing the agility/flexibility required to meet the short-notice and peak-period resource needs of projects;
- Being accountable for all activities and resources delegated to the Section, and for resolving possible conflicting demands on the use of the Section’s resources.
Interface management:

- Coordinating the evolution of the standards in the context of the ECSS system that is related to the technical domains of the Section.

You will also be responsible for identifying, assessing, managing and

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