Earth Observation Engineer

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom KDC Resource Full time

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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