You will serve as a Product Development Lead (PDL) in the Components and Hardware Systems Branch, an organizational element of the Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

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. Manage engineering team labor cost, schedule, and technical aspects including risk management of the project/program. Certify hardware for flight; integrate hardware testing at the vehicle level including participation in verifying and certifying hardware for flight. Coordinate and integrate the planning, programming, development, oversight, scheduling, and overall management of resources for multi-phase projects, ensuring that a progress schedule is maintained. Define, design, develop, and evaluate systems and subsystems necessary for the control, navigation and guidance of flight vehicles in the atmosphere and space. Lead and manage engineers tasked with leading multi-disciplinary and multi-organizational teams in the requirements definition, design, development, integration, test, verification, and operation of space flight dynamics systems. Manage and provide expertise involving hardware development, as a technical discipline lead for the Division. Plan, research, design, develop, test, and evaluate aerospace vehicles and structures operating with, above, and beyond the earth's atmosphere. Conduct cost analyses and handle program/project management duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below and have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, which has equipped you with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above. 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: Performing functions involving aerospace product development; Supporting the design and evaluation of space flight components supporting guidance, navigation, and control systems; Assisting with the development of project budgets, schedules, and plans that establish parameters for fabrication, alignment, and assembly of aerospace flight components and electromechanical assemblies used in space flight environments. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Leading multi-disciplinary teams in developing space flight hardware systems; Providing technical expertise in the design and development of space flight components supporting guidance, navigation, and control systems; Overseeing the development of project budgets, schedules, and plans that establish parameters for fabrication, alignment, and assembly of aerospace flight components and electromechanical assemblies used in space flight environments. 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 Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd Greenbelt, MD 20771 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]