Planning Engineer (m/f/d) | Munich, Germany

Permanent employee, Full-time · Munich SPO

Tasks and Responsibilities:

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

Required Qualification and Experience:

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.)

Work location:

Spaceopal headquarter (Munich, Germany)

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.

Benefits:

30 days annual leave
Work-life-balance, e.g., through flexible working time models and mobile office options
Employer supported pension scheme
Employer supported canteen, free coffee & fruit service
Centrally located office
Personal development and training options
Regular company and team events
International working environment, dynamic, multicultural and motivated teams

Full-time

40h / week

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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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