Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer

Kennedy Space Center - Merritt Island, FL

Under the Deep Space Logistics Engineering Support (LENS) contract, our employees will provide engineering support to NASA to review and assess activities of the Gateway Logistics Services (GLS) IDIQ Contract Commercial Service Provider. This effort may include the review and assessment of the requirements, design, analysis, testing, manufacturing, verification, validation, assembly, integration, checkout, mission preparations and operations required to deliver cargo and payloads to the lunar Gateway, or for other DSL mission projects and interests.

The Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer provides support on behalf of our customers to determine, negotiate and implement mission-enabling contamination requirements and controls for the GLS systems and associated hardware.

This position will be filled at either the Senior Engineer or Subject Matter Expert level, depending on qualifications, with salary commensurate with experience.

As a Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer you will:

• Support the derivation/development, documentation, and implementation of contamination controls for several spacecraft programs at the conceptual, design, and/or manufacturing stage.
• Provide general insight (monitor and evaluate contractor design) at technical meetings with contractor/subcontractors.
• Formulate contamination budgets and mitigation strategies that may include contamination modeling.
• Monitor, review, facilitate and evaluate overall contamination control planning, implementation, and verification.
• Work with other engineering disciplines to identify contamination sensitivities, develop appropriate risk-based contamination requirements, negotiate acceptance of requirements, and manage/facilitate implementation of the contamination control program. Provide recommendations for program acceptance of requirements verification, testing, risks and hazards.
• Solve contamination problems encountered during fabrication, assembly, test, and transportation of space hardware.
• Perform analyses of spacecraft molecular and particulate contamination sources, transport and deposition onto payload and docking surfaces.
• Create, review, and implement contamination control documentation supporting the design, fabrication, assembly, test, and transportation of one-of-a-kind, highly specialized space hardware.
• Directly interact with the NASA customer along with various NASA support contractors.
• Participate in system failure and anomaly investigations and conduct root-cause analysis.
• Based on analysis and observation, provide recommendations for concurrence or nonconcurrence with the Gateway Logistics Services Provider’s actions
• Travel as required in support of technical reviews and exchanges.
• Work both independently and in a team environment, and report directly and support System Management
• Perform other duties as required.
  
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in engineering or related discipline from an accredited engineering school and fourteen (14) years of related engineering experience or an M.S. degree in engineering or a related discipline from an accredited engineering school and ten (10) years of related engineering experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation.
• Ability to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and various contractor employees.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in Spacecraft Contamination Engineering or a related field, preferably with spacecraft hardware desired.
• Ability and experience determining contamination sensitivities and deriving/negotiating contamination requirements based on instrument/system performance characteristics.
• Experience implementing contamination controls in collaboration with the design, hardware production, test, and inspection functions.
• Experience with clean room operations and monitoring, materials, vacuum systems, hardware cleaning and inspection methods and knowledge of the space environment (vacuum, particulate and electromagnetic radiation, thermal, atomic oxygen).
• Experience with aerospace (spacecraft and/or launch system) contamination control processes.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. or Ph.D. degree in engineering or related discipline from an accredited engineering school with 10 years of related contamination control engineer experience.
• Direct experience working with spacecraft contamination control for spacecraft docking scenarios; experience working contamination control for ISS.
• Experience applying and following industry and NASA standards for contamination control, such as MSFC-PROC-536 and NASA-STD-6016B.
• Experience with NASA commercial launch services vehicles and providers is highly desired.
• Familiarity with standard testing techniques (e.g.: ASTM E-595, ASTM-E-1559, ASTM-E-1216, ASTM-E-1235).
• Proficiency with Thermal Desktop, Siemens NX, MATLAB, and/or contamination analysis software.
  
  
  

About Aegis Aerospace

We are a woman-owned space and technology company headquartered in Houston, TX. Our primary objective is to support the Department of Defense and NASA in achieving their missions to defend the security of our country, reach new heights and to discover the unknown. We employ some of the brightest, most experienced engineering and technology experts in the U.S.

To learn more about Aegis Aerospace, visit our website at www.aegisaero.com.

Aegis Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer /M/F/disability/protected veteran employer.