You will serve as a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Engineer in the Facilities Management and Operations Division at Johnson Space Center. You will develop and implement an RCM program and provide technical oversight, quality control, testing procedures, and certification of plans and documents relating to RCM services for Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation equipment and systems for facilities/programs used for aerospace research and development.

Duties

Develop Reliability Program and cost-effective equipment maintenance strategies for a variety of critical facilities, such as Central Heating/Cooling Plant, Combined Heating and Power Plant, Mission Control Power Plant, and/or Water Plant. Act as a liaison to the capital asset management program to provide analysis necessary to determine cost-effective timing of capital refurbishment and replacement. Analyze and develop maintenance plans to achieve maximum uptime of assets while minimizing failures. Coordinate with project design teams to promote Reliability Design concepts, review designs, and make recommendations to ensure maintainability. Monitor commissioning efforts, enter assets and systems into the Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) database, and utilize Preventative Management (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) methods to establish optimal long-term care. Lead cross-functional teams through Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement maintenance improvement strategies to prevent premature failure of critical equipment. Utilize online and offline condition monitoring and predictive maintenance methodologies with traditional scheduled preventive maintenance to prolong equipment life to achieve or surpass equipment performance metrics. Perform condition assessments and life cycle cost assessments for new and existing assets and provide replacement decision justifications. Provide organizational training, regular feedback, and flexible resource scheduling of Facility Engineers. 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 probationary 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: Utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) engineering practices to maintain mechanical or electrical facility equipment (e.g. pumps, blowers, compressors, centrifuges, agitators, gear boxes, motor starters, motor control centers, etc.); Working with a team of engineers and technical professionals to develop equipment maintenance plans to optimize equipment performance and longevity; Making recommendations to improve facility equipment maintenance strategies and presenting technical information to a range of internal/external stakeholders. 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 Johnson Space Center 2101 NASA Parkway Houston, TX 77058 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]