Serves as an Engineering Project Manager (PM) in the ISS and Human Health Office of the Space Flight Systems (SFS) Directorate. Responsible for strategically planning and coordinating portfolios of physical science projects, supporting combustion science teams. Responsible for overall project planning and development, advocating the project to management and reporting to the GRC physical science PM. Managing overall project resources, coordinating with the various performing organizations.

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. Directs, manages, strategically plans, and coordinates a portfolio of physical science projects with a focus on combustion science, utilizing a set of hybrid civil servant and contractor teams. Contributes to long-range project planning, advanced planning, future project definition, project implementation plans and to formulation, modification, and determination of overall objectives. Performs multiple functions which include: planning, design, test and evaluation, cost analyses, project management, quality management for the project and/or program. Determines when directed project activities should be altered or stopped. Reviews completed activities for meeting objectives, requirements and for agreement with presently existing approaches and techniques. Maintains close contact with project technical leadership, contractors, stakeholders at other field centers, commercial industry representatives, and international partners to integrate the resource planning elements for the project/program. Advocates projects to Glenn Research Center (GRC), International Space Station (ISS), and Headquarters management and reporting to the GRC physical science program manager. Oversees and coordinate activities with ISS Program Office, NASA Headquarters, development contractor, project scientists, principal investigator teams, and the various other project managers supporting hardware and software development. Oversees, analyzes, and plan long-range resource requirements, schedules, budgets, and budget allocations for the projects, including new capability developments for exploration. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

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: Participating in project activity planning, scheduling, budget estimations or execution, or similar activities in support of technical projects; Reporting statuses throughout the project lifecycle of technical and data products to the project manager related to engineering modeling and systems engineering processes; Planning and executing a ground or aerospace projects as a lead project engineer, systems engineer, and/or a key technical engineer in charge of a subsystem. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Serving on multi-organizational teams involved in the management of technical efforts supporting aerospace, research and development activities; Performing project management functions with interdisciplinary groups from a variety of internal and external organizations to complete program goals, and performing negotiations to achieve objectives; Managing and providing technical oversight to diverse teams by leading the planning and executing of an aerospace project as a project manager, lead systems engineer, or cost account manager. 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; and that provided an in-depth knowledge of theoretical and practical applications of computer science, including digital computer system architecture and system software organization, the representation and transformation of information structures, and the theoretical models for such representations and transformations.

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 Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Rd Cleveland, OH 44135 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]