Earth Observation Engineer
4 weeks ago
Earth Observation Engineer
Here at KDC we have a great opportunity for a remote sensing or earth observation professional, with knowledge of satellite Earth observation (EO) data systems and processing, to join our UK team.
Objective
To contribute to operational and science-based services and system developments for national, and international, based EO programmes.
Responsibilities/ Duties
The successful candidate will be expected to;
- Support services to ESA related to data Quality Control (QC) included within the EarthCARE Mission of the EarthCARE Data Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC)
- Interact with expert customers on mission data issues
- Support the DISC QC Coordinator in planning and prioritisation of all activities relating to EarthCARE QC
- Back-up support to Junior EO Engineer to perform routine quality control checks of data products and produce quality reports
- Identify and investigate quality issues and anomalies
- Research and respond to technical user queries
- Maintain QC tools and scripts used locally
- Use programming to automate/ enhance routine procedures
- Prepare posters, publications and presentations at meetings/ conferences
- Contribute to technical proposal authoring to win new work
- Carry out occasional travel to conferences/ customer sites
Qualifications/Experience
- University degree/MSc (or equivalent) in Geography, Physics, Remote Sensing or a related discipline.
- Experience/Understanding, in either an industrial or academic setting;
- Supporting operational processing systems for EO data (e.g. level ‘1’ to level ‘2’ and ‘level 3’ processing)
- Working with Passive Microwave, Optical, SAR or Altimetric earth observation data
- Using and adapting tools and scripts for remote sensing data manipulation
Essential Skills
- Interest in working to support an operational ESA mission
- Some experience in Earth Observation and data processing levels
- Some team management experience
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Ability to plan and prioritise activities
- Some proficiency with Linux operating systems and Python
- Proficiency in writing technical documents
- Good organisational and communication skills
- Attention to detail
Desirable Skills
- Some knowledge or understanding of EarthCARE
- Understanding of instrument calibration principles (e.g. geometric, radiometric, spectral, etc)
Qualities
- Comfortable in a (scientific) customer facing role
- Self-motivated and creative individual, actively seeking opportunities for the business
- Positive, “can-do” approach
- Willingness to adapt role to meet current needs
- Encouraging and supportive of team co-workers
Benefits
Competitive Package, including private healthcare, excellent pension, generous holiday allowance, and open hybrid working environment.
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