What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Spaceflight System Safety Engineer position at Qualified Technical Services, Inc?
Work Location: Houston, TX - NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) - Hybrid
Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen
Clearance: US Government Public Trust
JOB DESCRIPTION: Commercial Spaceflight System Safety Engineer
An exciting and challenging opportunity is open to support NASA’s present and future human spaceflight programs at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas under the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract. This is an exciting time to be making history with the NASA Safety & Mission Assurance (S&MA) team assuring continuous human presence on the International Space Station, shaping the commercial space environment, and returning humans to the Moon and on to Mars, safely. You will work in a collaborative environment comprised of NASA engineers, mission operations specialists, and commercial spaceflight experts. You will apply design and operations knowledge/expertise in various areas of S&MA; such as, system safety, reliability, quality engineering/assurance, software safety, and risk management.
Specific tasks may include:
- Evaluation of products including hazard analysis, design verification analysis, reliability and maintainability analysis, hardware qualification and acceptance test reports
- Evaluation of changes to requirements, materials, processes and procedures for potential impacts to flight safety and mission success
- Evaluation of spacecraft design and operations for compliance to NASA S&MA requirements and system certification limits / constraints
- Assist with the development and effective implementation of S&MA requirements, processes and procedures
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and trade studies
- Identify, characterize and provide recommendations regarding mitigation of safety and mission assurance risks to senior management
- Participation in failure analysis and problem resolution
REQUIREMENTS: Commercial Spaceflight System Safety Engineer
Education: Bachelors of Science in Electrical, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
Year(s) of Experience: 5 - 10 years of related experience
Minimum Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen and be able to obtain and retain Public Trust security clearance.
Required Skills and Traits:
- Ability to evaluate technical merits of human space flight (HSF) spacecraft designs and identify safe alternative solutions to complex technical problems to mitigate mission risk
- Experience with HSF spacecraft design, test and verification, maintenance, and operations
- S&MA experience with emphasis on HSF system safety (hazard analysis) and reliability analyses to inform and influence design, test and verification activities, and planned flight operations
- Experience performing root cause analysis and development of fault trees
- Ability to work effectively across multiple organizations / stakeholders and within a teaming environment to get results
- High degree of technical excellence, integrity, and self-initiative
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills
- Technical excellence, integrity, and self-initiative
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Power Point, Excel)
Desired Skills and Traits
- Experience working with EMU hardware/operations and/or providing safety/reliability support for complex space systems.
- Working knowledge of International Space Station (ISS) hardware, airlock/EMU systems, their interaction, and their operations.
- Experience in the development of spacesuit systems, other critical space hardware, or procedures and flight rules for spacesuit system operations.
- Experience in complex programs related to Manned Space Flight at NASA.
- Proficient at independent study and data gathering.
- Experience in environmental control and life support, thermal control or structural and mechanical systems engineering.
- Familiar with human factors and medical-related conditions as they apply to EMU design and operations.
- Experience with real-time CORE room or MER/MCC support of EVA/EMU operations.
Qualified Technical Services, Inc. is a HUBZone employer. HUBZone residents are encouraged to apply without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide EEOC information to help our company comply with Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements and such information will not affect hire ability. We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination-free and harassment-free atmosphere.
