What are the responsibilities and job description for the NASA EVA Ops Safety 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 Ops Safety Engineer
Our team has an exciting and challenging opportunity to support Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Operations to the Quality and Flight Equipment Division (NT) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for NASA programs. The current scope of the Safety EVA Safety projects are in support of the International Space Station (ISS) Program, the EVA Office. The EVA Safety Engineer’s mission for individual EVA projects is to assure overall design/safety requirements robustness, to assure adequacy of the overall safety assessment (Hazard Reports and FMEA/CILs), and to provide engineering expertise toward the certification efforts that qualify mission functionality. Additionally, the engineer will assist the project with anomaly resolution and to communicate any associated project risks up through the appropriate S&MA chain of command. The position provides project support over the entire system lifecycle, including design, assembly, pre-mission planning, integration, launch, flight operations, and return. As a supporting member to the individual EVA tool project teams, the EVA Tools Safety Engineer contributes to design reviews as the subject matter expert for EVA tools safety to assure design/safety requirements definition and the selection of appropriate testing/verification methods.
Job Responsibilities:
- Use risk assessment tools (e.g., Hazard Analysis, FMEA/CILs, Fault Tree Analysis, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)) to identify hazards/causes, to ensure adequate controls are in place, and to eliminate/reduce risk as necessary to mitigate overall system effect.
- Formulate the S&MA response to system design and safety products through the integration and coordination of inputs from all necessary NASA stakeholders (i.e., Engineering, Space and Life Sciences, Program Offices, Flight Operations, etc.) associated with the project and its lifecycle.
- Review Testing and Verification Plans to assess adequacy of control strategies and assures that compliance with qualification verifications and the EVA certification process has been met.
- Provides presentations to S&MA, project, and program management as necessary regarding safety, risk summaries, and dissenting opinions.
REQUIREMENTS: NASA EVA Ops Safety Engineer
Education: Bachelors of Science in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
Year(s) of Experience: 0 - 3 years of experience working with engineering or operations
Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Required Skills and Traits:
- Must possess excellent oral or written skills.
- Must possess good interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter, self-motivated.
- Must be willing to travel (< 5%, domestic).
- Must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident
- Must be able to successfully complete a Government Background check to receive a Public Trust clearance
Other Desired Skills:
- Familiar with hazard / safety analysis and/or NASA GFE hardware and operations
- Experience in real-time operations monitoring
- Working knowledge of ISS hardware/systems, the operations thereof, and the associated operational environment
- Familiar with NASA, DOD or other industry Safety, Reliability, and quality processes
- Familiar with Safety or Reliability related products such as hazard analysis, FMEA/CILs, PRA, and Fault Trees (including prior authoring experience)
- Experience with project management, planning, scheduling, etc.
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.
