As a senior Safety and Mission Assurance Engineer within the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, Exploration Grounds Systems Division, Safety Engineering and Assurance Branch, you will be responsible for advising, planning, and resolving issues for the assigned Programs and Projects. Trusted for tasks related to developing, reviewing, and maintaining policies, requirements, and processes for analyzing the safety, reliability, and quality of flight and Ground Support Equipment hardware.

Duties

Serves as technical safety analysis expert and senior advisor to management, engineering, and project/program personnel in developing technical Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) requirements for new and existing programs and projects. Advises, coordinates, and oversees safety and mission assurance assignments for the full lifecycle of flight vehicles, payloads, systems, and facilities, including design, development, integration, testing, operation, and maintenance. Provides overall Safety and Mission Assurance related analysis to the project and/or programs within the Center or across the Agency. Provides safety risk assessment guidance and technical advice to staff engineers and contractors within the organization in the performance of related assignments and notifies/elevates issues to management for awareness. Monitors and consults directly with employees on assigned projects in the areas of system safety, operational safety, and reliability. Recommends and implements changes in approach, criteria, or requirements to resolve safety and reliability and/or operational issues related to ground and flight systems with support to various Engineering Review Board(s). Exercises expert technical aerospace engineering knowledge, insight, and judgment in identifying and resolving technical failures, performance deficiencies, design faults on systems, equipment, and/or hardware. 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

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
• If the individual selected is currently at the GS-14 grade level, they will be detailed at their current grade and step. If the individual is a current GS-13 they will be temporarily promoted to the GS-14 level.

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-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Providing safety engineering risk assessment and guidance to stakeholders in at least one of the following areas: spacecraft and launch vehicle hardware, ground system hardware integration, or landing and recovering systems; Performing engineering analyses throughout the project life cycle related to System Safety, Operational Safety and/or Reliability; and Performing failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis, and/or hazard analysis on flight hardware and/or ground 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]