This position is located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). You will serve as a Flight Systems Training and Operations Specialist and are responsible for developing training and real-time operational mission concepts; conducting engineering analysis to validate human space flight activities; developing certification training for flight control teams; and participating in human space flight mission operations.

Duties

Duties described below are at the full-performance level. Duties assigned at a lower grade level will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee. Perform engineering analysis to develop and validate procedures for on-board crew and ground activities to produce appropriate procedures, cue cards, checklists, and handbooks, to identify potential in-flight malfunctions and contingencies. Conduct post-flight mission evaluations to ensure that mission objectives were met, problem areas identified, and corrective actions taken. Plan, develop, integrate, and direct real-time and training operations for human space flight and robotic space vehicles. Develop operational concepts, plans, procedures, and requirements for spacecraft hardware and software systems for real-time flight control of human space flight, robotic space vehicles (including payloads) and space-based science instruments. Develop training operational concepts, establishing mission-specific technical training requirements and objectives for certification of space flight crews and flight control personnel. Participate in mission, spacecraft, on-board systems, and mission trainer?s requirements definition and design activities necessary to ensure compatibility between mission objectives, vehicle capabilities, crew safety, and mission success. Perform multiple functions which may include planning, design, test and evaluation, cost analyses, program and project management, quality management for projects. Provide technical training/certification of space flight crews and ground personnel through briefings, classroom instruction, part-task trainers, one-G trainers, water tank facilities, mission simulators, and other specialized facilities/trainers.

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 trial 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-12, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level. supporting real-time requirements for spacecraft hardware and software systems; reviewing certification space flight training requirements and objectives required to support human space flight missions; and conducting engineering analysis to validate human space flight activities. To qualify for GS-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level. assisting with developing real-time support requirements for spacecraft hardware and software systems; providing recommendations to certification space flight training requirements and objectives required to support human space flight missions; and conducting engineering analysis and generating reports to validate human space flight activities. 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 Johnson Space Center 2101 NASA Parkway Houston, TX 77058 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]