What are the responsibilities and job description for the NASA EVA & Human Surface Mobility Safety Panel Executive Officer/Engineer position at Qualified Technical Services, Inc?
Work Location: Houston, TX - NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) - Hybrid
Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Clearance: US Government (Public Trust)
JOB DESCRIPTION: NASA EVA & Human Surface Mobility Safety Panel Executive Officer/Engineer
An exciting and challenging opportunity 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) Engineering team assuring continuous human presence on the International Space Station and returning humans to the Moon and on to Mars, safely. The candidate will work in a collaborative environment comprised of NASA engineers, mission operations specialists, and commercial spaceflight experts in the new Extravehicular Activity & Human Surface Mobility Program (EHP); providing system safety expertise to the newly formed EHP Safety Review Panel for all areas of technical and process safety.
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: NASA EVA & Human Surface Mobility Safety Panel Executive Officer/Engineer
Education: Bachelors of Science in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical or Aerospace preferred)
Year(s) of Experience: 12 years of related experience
Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Required Skills and Traits:
- Ability to evaluate technical merits of spacecraft designs and identify alternative solutions to complex technical problems to mitigate mission risk
- Experience with spacecraft design, test and verification, maintenance, and operations
- S&MA experience with emphasis on 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
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Power Point, Excel)
Qualified Technical Services, Inc. is a HUBZone employer. HUBZone residents are encouraged to apply for preferential consideration 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.
