Materials and Processes Engineer

Job description

Location ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands Description: Materials and Processes Engineer in the Materials, Manufacturing and Assembly Section, Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division, Mechanical Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality. The Materials, Manufacturing and Assembly Section provides functional support to ESA projects and carries out technological research (R&D) in the area of materials and associated manufacturing processes. Duties: Your duties may also include supporting other activities within your field of competence. - Reporting to the Head of Section and within the technical fields described above, your main tasks and responsibilities will include: - providing technical expertise and consultancy to ESA projects, programmes and general studies in the field of materials and processes throughout all project phases, with a particular focus on the reliability of electronic assemblies and the associated manufacturing processes, predictive performance modelling, process and product verification and defect analysis; - acting as an electronic assembly expert for ESA projects and providing technical expertise in MPCBs and NRBs; - conducting ESA proces...