At Alén Space we are looking to expand our team with the addition of a **Space Product Assurance Engineer** to help ensure that our products and services maintain the highest quality standards.
**Position Tasks and Responsibilities**:
**The selected person will take part in the development of**:
- Organization’s Quality Policy
- ISO 9001 certification: maintenance, audits, and follow-up of actions
- Internal and external audits
- Process and standards review, identification of customer requirements
- Preparation, review, and control of quality plans, technical instructions, and procedures
- Management and communication of quality indicators and improvement proposals
- Identification and follow-up of risks, anomalies, and Non-Conformities
- Definition and implementation of Product/Project Quality Assurance Plans
- Quality support to other areas of the organization, such as Production or AIV (Assembly, Integration & Verification)
- Process, product, or supplier quality inspections
- Future evolution towards ISO 9100 certification
- A degree in Aeronautical, Aerospace, Electronic, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering.
- Experience in managing ISO 9001 Quality Systems.
- At least 3 years of previous experience performing the functions described above.
**Highly valued**:
- A Master's degree related to the Quality field.
- Formal training in Quality Management Systems.
- Knowledge of:
- ECSS standards (European Cooperation for Space Standardization)
- AS/EN 9100 standard (Aerospace Quality Management)
- IPC standards (Electronics Industry)
- Dimensional metrology
**About us**:
**About Alén Space**:
While Alén Space is a new company, our team has been involved in **several complete nanosatellite missions**, from specification to delivery, during the last **15 years**. Alén Space technical team is composed of systems engineers, electronic engineers, AIV engineers, software and operations engineers and project managers; with a large experience on IOD, communication, commercial and scientific missions, with private and public institutions such as the European Space Agency.
Alén Space’s value proposition resides in the flexibility and expertise of **our team**. We utilize our design and testing methodologies, which allow the use of components from various suppliers, to create the most suitable platform for the requested mission. During more than a decade, **all our nanosatellites missions have been fully designed in-house**, following the same multi-provider approach, resulting on a 100% success rate in orbit, for all launched missions.
At Alén Space, **quality** and **flexibility** in the design, manufacturing and testing are hallmarks of the company. The quality of the process is achieved through meticulous testing and verification processes, keeping traceability of all the executed activities. The flexibility is achieved thanks to the proximity relationship with our clients and to our supplier agnostic approach. This relationship aims not only at easing the communication process, but also at allowing our commercial clients to take an important role on the design aspects. In this line, we design the most versátil spacecraft platforms, to accommodate subsystem suppliers’ changes without heavily impacting the overall mission. **Our systems and AIV engineers work closely with the client**, in order to take decisions and involve them in the process.
Our team has enhanced a work method that applies the strict quality standards set by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS). All of our management, system engineering and AIV processes are based on those standards.
Q**uality, Flexibility, Scalability, Proximity, Expertise and Success** define all Alén Space values.
**Do you want to orbit with us?**
We offer the opportunity to join a challenging space project together with a self-motivated team with great experience in the design and manufacturing of small satellites!
**Conditions**:
We offer a indefinite full time contract
If you are a proactive person and want to commit yourself to a present and future project, **we hope to receive your CV.**
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