You will serve as Material and Processes or Thermal Protection System Engineer with the Materials and Processes Engineering Branch in the Laboratories, Development and Testing Division of the Engineering Directorate responsible for supporting the certification of Launch Vehicles and Spacecrafts; you will participate in the verification and validation activities, assign team member roles and responsibilities and communicate technical issues and risks to Programs.

Duties

Serves as a materials or thermal protection system engineer in the design, development, and operations of launch vehicles, spacecraft, payloads, ground systems, and facilities for NASA Programs and Projects. Participates on Agency-wide teams of subject matter experts and materials engineers to review spacecraft and launch vehicle subsystem and component designs, hazard reports, variances, and Materials Identification and Usage Lists. Solves complex problems in tight timelines by utilizing materials engineering expertise, in-depth processes, and engineering methods to ensure program success. Applies a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze/improve team effectiveness ensuring the strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, and work. Provides solutions to issues associated with aerospace flight hardware, ground support equipment, and related facilities in areas such as materials engineering, fracture control, and non-destructive evaluation. Develops, evaluates, selects, and applies advanced structural materials to aerospace systems for spacecraft and or launch vehicles.

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-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the federal sector: Evaluating test data for advanced structural or thermal protection materials used for structural components or power and propulsion systems to assist in the certification of the mechanical design; Researching the characteristics and performance of materials during their design and development phase in preparation for certification of mechanical systems; Working as a team member to solve materials engineering or thermal protection system issues and sharing proposed solutions to the project/program lead to resolve issues. 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]