Planning Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Viasat

Description

For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. Satellite Operations, Network Operations, Service Assurance and Capacity Fulfilment, Service Delivery, Customer Assurance, Project Management Office programmes and processes.

A spacecraft operations engineer is required to take a responsible position as part of the Spacecraft Analysis team who perform the on-station spacecraft operations, looking after the health and performance of the satellite for the Viasat UK current and future satellite fleets operated from London.

To define, plan and execute operations to manage the satellite configurations to maintain their health, safety and function.

To assess and report on satellite health and performance by daily monitoring of their status and monitoring of long-term trends in behaviour of on-board units.

To diagnose problems as quickly as possible, determine the underlying root cause of incidents and identify workarounds or permanent solutions to prevent reoccurrence with the spacecraft manufacturer using techniques such as 8D, 5 whys, fault tree/fishbone analysis to get to the root cause of a problem and then to be able to identify corrective and preventive measures.

To maintain satellite operational products such as satellite telemetry and telecommand databases, including alarm limits, to support safe and efficient operations and to maintain the routine and contingency satellite control procedures and validate updates against the satellite simulator and maintain the satellite simulators to have a fully representative test bed.

To develop and maintain the reference data sets and software applications including AI and analytics applications required by the Spacecraft Analysis Department to perform the satellite health and performance monitoring, operations planning, checking and reporting to ensure early detection of problems and anomaly characterisation.

To ensure any analyst training plan and accreditation are up to date and when required, the provision of any training, definition of courseware and assessments are conducted accurately, effectively and efficiently.

To work with the Viasat Global Space Networks and spacecraft manufacturer engineering support teams to investigate anomalies and develop relevant operational solutions.

To work on new satellite programmes on systems engineering, operations development, integration and validation activities and to support the Global Space Networks Space Systems procurement team with programme reviews.

To respond positively to any other requests that help achieve Viasat's goals.

Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken
This requires a high degree of flexibility in planning and executing work
What Will Help You On The Job

Knowledge of design and operations of spacecraft subsystems, such as Power, Thermal, Attitude Control, Electrical and Chemical Propulsion, TTC and Payload subsystems
Knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, R) to perform data analysis and data manipulation for trending, anomaly prediction and classification analysis and for developing and enhancing tools for aiding analyst processes and procedures (experience working with big data and applied AI is a bonus)
Experience of working with spacecraft manufacturers and satellite engineering support teams for the specification, development and implementation of satellite specific operations for at least one previous geo-synchronous satellite project

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic.