What are the responsibilities and job description for the NASA Gateway Safety Panel Engineer/Executive Officer position at SAIC?
Job Details
Job ID: 2501500
Location: HOUSTON, TX, US
Date Posted: 2025-02-04
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Sys Safety Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
Job Description:
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 Gateway Program; providing system safety expertise to the Gateway Integrated 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
Qualifications
Required Experience/Skills:
Required Education: BS degree in Engineering or related Science/Technical field (Electrical, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering preferred)
Must be able to obtain and retain Public Trust security clearance.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Location: HOUSTON, TX, US
Date Posted: 2025-02-04
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Sys Safety Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
Job Description:
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 Gateway Program; providing system safety expertise to the Gateway Integrated 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
Qualifications
Required Experience/Skills:
- 10 years related experience
- 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)
Required Education: BS degree in Engineering or related Science/Technical field (Electrical, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering preferred)
Must be able to obtain and retain Public Trust security clearance.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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