You will serve as a Flow and Crew & Service Module Lead with the Spacecraft Assembly Branch, Orion Productions Operations (OPO) responsible for insight and oversight of Orion spacecraft assembly, integration, and production (AI&P) operations in support of a specific Artemis mission. You will manage the internal OPO Certification of Flight Readiness, evaluate spacecraft technical, and perform independent assessments of spacecraft technical and schedule risk and AI&P performance.

Duties

Partner with Prime Contractor to achieve technical and schedule performance commitments for Orion spacecraft assembly, integration, and production (AIP) for a specific Artemis mission from hardware delivery through NASA acceptance of the spacecraft. Collaborate with Orion Program Vehicle Manager for a specific Artemis mission to communicate and address program requests for Orion spacecraft AIP information and/or assessments regarding production schedules, risks, and flight hardware issues. Coordinate with International Partners to achieve European Service Module (ESM) integration activities in the production flow including incorporation of ESM tasks into the production schedule and organization of contractor and/or NASA resources. Manage internal OPO Certification of Flight Readiness (CoFR) review process of Orion spacecraft AIP for a specific Artemis mission, evaluate and document technical data/evidence, and produce reports for OPO endorsement of the as-built spacecraft. Analyze production flow for schedule and technical risks and opportunities, conflicts among spacecraft/module flows, and performance metrics to project impacts, initiate mitigations, and influence process improvements for spacecraft producibility. Integrate and collaborate with OPO Flow Leads on potential spacecraft/module AIP conflicts and lessons learned across missions and with Module, ESM, Test, and Supply Chain Leads to evaluate assembly and schedule performance, risks, and mitigations. Coordinate assembly activities, flight hardware issues, and safety/quality concerns with OPO Engineering and Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA). Engage other Orion program/technical authority personnel as needed for technical hardware items. Maintain awareness of and/or witness daily Orion production activities. Provide daily status and weekly report on progress (schedule performance, risks, accomplishments/issues, milestones, etc.) to OPO and Orion Program management.

Requirements

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• This position may require a one year probationary period.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. NASA utilizes OPM-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Providing insight and/or oversight of human spaceflight hardware assembly processes and schedules to ensure as-built spacecraft meets design and performance meets plan; Performing independent risk assessments to evaluate human spaceflight hardware assembly sequences, schedules and to influence process improvements for spacecraft producibility; Coordinating and collaborating on spacecraft production performance, challenges, and improvements with program management and various stakeholders. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

Basic Education Requirement: You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following:

a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs
b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science
c) Computer Science that included 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of course work in any combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science with at least half of those hours in mathematics and statistics courses that included differential and integral calculus.

If you did not complete a qualifying bachelor's degree, you may be eligible if you have obtained a graduate degree in an AST qualifying field, as listed above.

Degrees in engineering technology are not considered qualifying for this position.

Engineering degrees earned within the United States: Engineering degrees earned within the United States must be from a college or university that has at least one ABET accredited engineering program. To find out if a school has at least one ABET accredited program, please visit http://www.abet.org.

Engineering degrees earned outside the United States: Engineering degrees earned outside the United States must be recognized by a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), often known as accords. These are non-governmental agreements among organizations that accredit academic degree programs. MRAs recognize the substantial equivalence of mature accreditation systems and programs accredited by signatory organizations within their jurisdictions. For a listing of Signatories, please visit, https://www.abet.org/global-presence/mutual-recognition-agreements/is-your-program-recognized/.

Science and other related degrees earned within the United States: Science and other related degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

Science and other related degrees earned outside the United States: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Contacts

• Address Kennedy Space Center Space Commerce Way Titusville, FL 32899 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]