As an AST Schedule Lead in NASA's Moon to Mars Program Office, you will be responsible for developing schedule products, conducting schedule analyses and assessments, and advising senior leaders for the Agency's flagship program for human missions to the Moon and Mars. You will work collaboratively to meet ambitious National and international mission goals with six programs developing space launch and crewed systems; lunar landers; and lunar surface spacesuits, rovers, and habitats.

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. Works collaboratively with multiple space flight programs to develop integrated schedule products, including quality and completeness checks consistent with scheduling best practices. Identifies schedule critical paths and associated margins, slack, and risks, and understands the engineering design, assembly, integration, and testing basis for those critical paths. Conducts schedule risk assessments and other schedule analyses. Communicates the implications of schedule products and analysis, and identify opportunities to improve schedule performance and reduce risks to aid decision making for senior Agency officials on multi-billion programs of national significance. Resolves development and operational problems with NASA stakeholders outside the NASA Moon to Mars Program. 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
• This position may require a one year probationary period
• Financial Disclosure, Drug Testing, and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation or higher level clearance. Investigation/Clearance may differ and be required based on the duties/location-NASA Center requirements.
• The location will be determined upon selection but must be at one of the locations indicated within 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. 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-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Working collaboratively with teams to develop products including integrated, logic-linked, resource loaded master schedules for complex engineering projects. Conducting critical path analyses and schedule risk assessments for engineering projects at several stages of development, including design, production, testing, or operations. Summarizing the results of products, analyses, and assessments for project managers leading directly to reduced schedule risks and improved schedule performance. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Leading teams to develop products including integrated, logic-linked, resource loaded master schedules for very large, highly complex engineering projects or programs. Using and designing critical path analysis, schedule risk assessments, and other analytical tools and capabilities for very large, highly complex engineering projects or programs throughout several stages of development, including design, production, testing, or operations. Directly advising senior program, department, or executive leaders on how results from schedule products, analyses, and assessments can lead directly to specific engineering solutions that reduce schedule risk and improve schedule performance. 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://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Contacts

• Address NASA Headquarters 300 E St SW Washington, DC 20546 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]