Job opening: Supervisory General Engineer, AST Technical Management (Direct Hire)
Salary: $165 761 - 191 900 per year
Published at: Oct 31 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Serves as an Office Chief, supervises and provides leadership over several diverse teams for Life Sciences Data Archival/Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health, Probabilistic Risk Assessment/Medical Modeling, Exploration Medical Capability, Exploration Medical Integrated Product, and the Medical Operations Translation. Also serves as a liaison to facilitate teaming and coordination between the Human Health and Performance Directorate and the Human Research Program for Mars initiatives.
Duties
Provides supervisory leadership to NASA civil servants within the Exploration Medical Integration Office including epidemiologists, engineers, physicians, and physician-scientists.
Provides contract and project management and leadership over a moderately-large contractor team, including oversight of technical, cost, schedule, risks and contractor team deliverables to various NASA Programs.
Serves a key role and function as liaison to facilitate teaming and coordination between the Human Health and Performance Directorate and Human Research Program for Mars operations and research initiatives.
Works closely as a change agent leader with the Exploration Integration Offices in the Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division and the Human Systems Engineering and Integration Division.
Represents the Exploration Medical Integration Office in boards, forums, panels, working groups, and technical interchange meetings.
Plans and implements strategic, tactical, and integration activities on behalf of the Exploration Medical Integration Office.
Identifies innovations, efficiencies, and process improvements that enhance team productivity and quality of deliverables and services to Program customers.
Performs a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommends personnel actions; takes disciplinary actions; and identifies training needs and develops employees.
Fosters a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champions NASAs 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.
- A one-year supervisory probationary period may be required.
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-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level:
Leading or managing diverse teams for engineering, scientific or technical projects;
Providing technical oversight, implementing and executing new policies, initiatives, organizational goals and objectives for engineering, scientific or technical projects;
Performing project management functions for project development, contract management, and communicating with Center and Agency stakeholders on integrating solutions in a challenging budget environment.
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]
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