As a design or construction manager and contracting officer representative for Kennedy Space Center's Construction of Facilities Office, you will be responsible for the implementation of projects managed by the organization using engineering principles, concepts, and practices related to the surveillance of design and construction for unique aerospace facilities, installation of unique ground support systems, and center wide infrastructure.

Duties

Implements engineering principles to oversee, coordinate, and integrate processes during the design, construction, and activation phases to ensure proper configuration management of facility development construction projects. Provides engineering oversight and fulfills the role of Contracting Officer Representative of contractors responsible for executing new construction and modification of facilities projects for Experimental Facilities Development. Develops and reviews engineered design documents, procurement and construction schedules. Formulates and disseminates decisions for appropriate actions and ensure compliance with approved project requirements. Ensures the Architects and Engineering (A and E) firm or construction contractor is performing the work in accordance to established plan and agreed to project schedule, reviews resources estimates, and ensures proper distribution of resources. Ensures experimental facility development engineering projects are activated and commissioned within the limits established by budgetary, scheduling, and other restraining influences from within or outside the organization. Performs independent assessments to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of operations and recommends improvements as necessary to ensure construction projects are being implemented within the established constraints. Reviews the technical and engineering aspects of assigned facility development projects. Ensures compliance to engineering requirements, codes, and standards. Provides surveillance of quality control policies and engineering standards.

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
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement
• 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-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the federal sector: Applying engineering principles during the design, development, or implementation of infrastructure experimental facility development construction projects; Supporting the design or implementation of construction projects involving experimental facility development infrastructure modifications (e.g., medium and high voltage electrical distribution systems, facility structural modifications, fire alarm and fire suppression systems (wet and dry type), liquid and gaseous commodities and associated processed piping (e.g., LH2, LN2, GHe, GN2, GO2); Working with others performing the design and implementation of facility infrastructure modifications (e.g., survey, geotechnical, electrical, mechanical, structural ground support equipment, or ground support systems). 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]