Serves as the Permitting and Compliance Group Lead for the Environmental Assurance Branch (SI-E2), within the Medical and Environmental Services Division of the Spaceport Integration and Services Directorate. The Permitting and Compliance Group Lead provides leadership for environmental and regulatory compliance, project management, and general environment program implementation at KSC.

Duties

Act as the primary interface for NASA KSC with environmental regulatory agencies. Apply knowledge of environmental regulations to controlling environmental risks associated with aerospace facilities and space research and operations. Review environmental permits and engineering calculations, studies, models, and other scientific or technical documents to ensure they are correct and fulfill contract obligations while ensuring environmental compliance with regulations. Provide environmental compliance and engineering assistance and consultation including professional, scientific, or technical work to assist other NASA KSC organizations with planning, design, test and evaluation, cost analysis, and permitting. Establish, maintain, monitor, report, and making functional assessments of environmental programs through all development and operations phases, aerospace, and aeronautical systems, launch systems, and ground support infrastructure. Serve as senior technical expert on Federal, State, and Local environmental permitting and compliance requirements as they apply to Federal Facilities, specifically to aerospace operations and activities at KSC. Assist NASA programs, project managers and contractors on determining which environmental requirements apply, and to implement these requirements in the most cost-effective manner with least possible adverse impacts to schedule and mission. Identify and communicate environmental permitting and compliance requirements and develop environmental policies and guidance for use at the Center. Analyze and select appropriate pollution control devices and techniques using engineering principles that allow aeronautical and space systems and processes to operate in environmental compliance. Create and deliver presentations/briefings to NASA, KSC, Federal Agencies, commercial management and external parties identifying major potential impacts to KSC projects, programs, or activities. Serve as the Technical Manager of the Environmental Support Contractor. 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. GS-14: To qualify at the GS-14 level, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Developing, managing, and monitoring processes or teams to ensure environmental regulatory compliance; Reviewing environmental permits and supporting documents such as, engineering calculations, studies, models, and other scientific or technical reports; Implementing environmental regulatory programs in accordance with federal, state, and local laws, and internal NASA and KSC policies and procedures. 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. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.

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 Kennedy Space Center Space Commerce Way Titusville, FL 32899 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]