Electrical and Power Engineer m/f Ref.EPS_2025

Electrical and Power Engineer m/f Ref.EPS_2025

OHB Italia is seeking for its Satellite and Missions Department in Milano or Rome an

Electrical and Power Engineer m/f Ref.EPS_24

 The “Electrical Power Systems, EMC & Harness Engineering” unit belongs to the “Integrated Systems-Satellites & Missions” BU. We are responsible for the Harness and Electrical Power Subsystem architecture leading relevant engineering activities in the whole lifecycle of projects and/or products, from initial conceiving and feasibility studies, bids and proposal preparation, design and implementation, up to launch, LEOP and in orbit operations and maintenance.

Your Tasks:

  • Definition of the Electrical Power subsystem architecture
  • Requirement analysis, flow down and subsystem architectures trade-off
  • Electrical power analysis and performance verification
  • Assess energy balance, resources sizing and justification
  • Customer and Subco’s technical follow-up
  • Electrical Power Subsystem IVVQ at spacecraft level
  • Electrical Power Subsystem support to S/C AIT tests and launch campaign
  • Participation to bids for solution identification and costing definition
  • Afford related R&D activities

In this role You will be in charge of covering the following tasks:

  • Assess and analyze mission Operational Requirement Documents, ORD.
  • Interface main peers, (i.e. AEL Arch, Sys E2E , Avionics, Payloads..)
  • Implement Electrical architectures
  • Review of equipment data packages and technical management of RFWs / RFDs
  • Assess electrical I/F resources, sizing and budgets
  • Implement Power architecture in simulation environments
  • Assess energy balance, resources sizing and justification
  • Participate to the reviews with the suppliers
  • Review and discussion of customer requirements
  • Participate to the reviews with the customer
  • Support to perform System and S/S IVVQ
  • Support for NCR management and closure
  • Support to evaluation of requirement change
  • Support AIV across Product Life cycles
  • Support OPS team for SVTs, FOP, LEOP sims, LEOP and commissioning

Your Qualifications:

  • You have a Master Degree in Electronic, Electrical or Telecommunication Engineering, with explicit focus on radio frequency and EMC.
  • You are fluent in English (C1 and above certification) both listening and reading.
  • You have 3 years of experience in similar position in at least one of these application fields:

Earth Observation program / spacecraft design and test phases up to the launch / LEOP and

commissioning, or Navigation / Telecom platform with Transfer phase accomplished through

Electric Propulsion means.

Specific knowledge:

You have a demonstrable knowledge of:

  • System requirements analysis, flow down and verification
  • Electrical and power design and sizing
  • Definition and management of design documentation: specifications, performance analysis, interfaces, budgets, validation.
  • Analysis, simulation a validation of supply systems and equipment for mission scenario fulfilment
  • Support to satellite test campaign during AIT, launch and in-orbit phases for power sim predictions
  • Basis of Electromagnetics
  • RLC filters and circuit theory
  • Power conditioning systems such as Shunt (S2R, S3R, S4R) and MPPT (Buck, Boost)
  • Matlab / Simulink/Orcad programming
  • (Electrical engineering standards is considered a plus)
    • ECSS-E-ST-20C, ECSS-E-ST-20-08C, ECSS-E-ST-50-12C, ECSS-E-ST-50-14C, MIL-STD- 1553-B

Nice to have qualifications:

  • Customer focused, proactive attitude
  • Organized and methodical approach to the work with strong communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks at one time, to work autonomously and in team
  • Strong attitude to achieve results within time and cost constraints
  • Problem solving attitude
  • Electrical background
  • Availability to travels
  • EMC background
Job Category: Vacancies
Job Type: Full Time

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