As Propulsion Chief Technologist, you will provide technical oversight to projects such as Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT). You will serve as an aerospace propulsion engineering authority on technical committees and advisory groups concerned with establishing and administering standards of national or international scope.

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. Provide technical oversight, define requirements of research, perform analysis, and conduct trades on aeronautical propulsion systems for projects such as AATT project. Provide technical leadership of a multi-disciplinary team operating across four geographically dispersed NASA field centers and ensure technical quality and compliance with programmatic institutional requirements. Act as technical leader in aerospace propulsion specialty, outstanding creativity, and exceptional scientific and engineering judgement to prove or disprove the feasibility of ideas and devices. Participate in the design of aerospace propulsion systems projects characterized unknown variables affecting planning and design criteria and critical problems with respect to costs and economics. Serve as an aerospace propulsion engineering authority on technical committees and advisory groups concerned with establishing and administering standards of national or international scope. Develop broad resource requirements, policies, procedures, budget, and operational schedules. Serve as an authority on programmatic committees and advisory groups concerned with establishing and implementing major new research, technology development, technology demonstration, or advanced development initiatives. Initiate system study efforts, define areas of study, monitor study, and review approaches, and evaluate study results for conclusions affecting overall systems. Determine feasibility timing, technical approach, and management of study proposals. Advise and maintain methodologies to collect and analyze data simultaneously in several organizational elements. Serve as expert consultant and advisor to subordinate data analysis activities. Establish validity criteria for studies to guide contract activities resolving various facets of data analysis problems. 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.

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: analyzing, coordinating, and/or integrating propulsion related components and systems; participating in investigations and risk management studies to find solutions to critical problems in areas such as for propulsion systems; and participating in the design and development of advanced propulsion technology for broad organizational engineering activities. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: providing authoritative technical decisions, advice and consultation in planning, integration, coordination, and/or critical management with respect to propulsion systems; serving as expert technical consultant and advisor to subordinate activities in areas such as propulsion technology development and/or commercialization activities; and developing, analyzing, or evaluating long range plans and oversee development of trend analyses and requirements. 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]