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Quality Control Specialist for Defence Mapping Solutions

Location:  Barcelona, Spain
Location flexibility:  4 office days / week
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Job Description

Job Description:

Airbus GeoTech, the Airbus Space Digital branch in Spain.

AIRBUS GeoTech, located in Barcelona, is the Airbus Defence and Space, Space Digital subsidiary in Spain.

Airbus in Barcelona offers the best of the two worlds: the heritage and support of a world aerospace leader, combined with the fast-paced, innovative and agile environment of a small company, with the DNA of a startup.

You will work with a small, but growing and passionate team of experts, system engineers, mapping operators, software developers, AI and data analysts that are transforming Earth Observation, geoinformation, drone systems operations and an endless list of applications to come.

Be ready to enter a changing environment, and jump in a train in transformative motion, helping the executive team crafting new businesses and entering uncharted waters.

Airbus in Barcelona has a regional and global reach, with more than 200 international customers serviced to date. Our team is often on the move and travelling internationally.

Scope of work & responsibilities

As part of Airbus GeoTech supporting security and defence vector mapping solutions, you will perform activities such as:

Quality Control Responsibilities

  • Semantic data validation and schema compliance. Metadata, attributes, dictionary alignment, etc.
  • Quality Assessment of geometries. Positional accuracy, topology rules, completeness
  • Multi-Source Imagery & Elevation Cross-Verification. VHR Satellite images and DEMs
  • Reporting and feedback loops with internal teams and customers, including registering non-conformities, prepare clear comments, attach evidences and follow corrections until final acceptance.
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  • Deliverables preparation including QC validation logs and Data Quality Reports
  • Tools & Technical Scope

    • Geographical Information Systems environments: ArcGIS Pro and QGIS
    • Specific Quality Assessment tools: Airbus Internal developed tools, GAIT and Python/SQL checks to support repeatable and strong Quality Control workflows.
    • Geospatial working formats: File or Enterprise Geodatabases, Shapefiles, CAD files

    About you

    We would love to hear who you are, your experience, your vision and how you could help us deliver our products and solutions with Airbus-quality standards.

    Required Qualifications & Skills

    • Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Geomatics, GIS, Geography, Remote Sensing, Cartography, Topography, Geoinformatics, or a related field.
    • Experience: 0-3 years in GIS, mapping production, remote sensing or geospatial Quality Control. Defence mapping, topographic databases or satellite-image interpretation are strong pluses.
    • Technical skills: ArcGIS Pro/Desktop and QGIS; topology, editing, geoprocessing, symbology and layout review; coordinate systems, scale and positional accuracy; geodatabase schemas, feature coding and attribute validation; VHR image interpretation; basic Python, ArcPy/PyQGIS or SQL mindset.
    • Valuable knowledge: MGCP, VMAP, MUVD, TDS, DGI, STANAG-like rules, ISO 19157 metadata, OSM/open data, DEM/DTM and LiDAR concepts.

    Non-technical Skills

    • Languages: French fluent or very fluent is mandatory (B2/C1 minimum; C1 preferred). English professional level. Spanish/Catalan are a plus.
    • Analytical skills
    • Mindset: Very rigorous, patient, curious to learn “a bit of everything”, reliable with deadlines and comfortable escalating doubts early.
    • Proactive thinking, risk taker, fast learner, flexible
    • Emotional intelligence, empathic, ability to be in someone else's shoes
    • Open minded to diversity, inclusion and other cultures
    • Commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the company's success, reputation & growth

    What's in it for you

    How we can support you

    At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

    Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need and we´ll always do our best to accommodate your request.

    Competitive salary

    Work / Life balance

    Hybrid working scheme (remote / physical)

    Tickets restaurant, child care subsidies, transport subsidies

    Access to Airbus employee share plans

    Access to Airbus Leadership University and Airbus training programmes

    Based in the bustling Barcelona downtown, quick access to efficient public transportation system

    Access to Airbus internal mobility network, worldwide

    Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

    This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

    Company:
    AIRBUS GEOTECH, S.A

    Employment Type:
    Permanent
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    Experience Level:
    Professional

    Job Family:
    Qualification & Operability

    By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
    Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

    Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

    At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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