This specialty NASA position involves facility planning, design and development systems, equipment used in conducting aerospace research, and development and operations programs. You will function as a Center Liaison to Agency/Mission Directorates for Construction of Facilities (CoF). Collaborates with Portfolio Managers and Mission Directorates to advocate for the Center's CoF. The responsibilities include planning, negotiating, developing, tracking, reporting, and funding CoF projects.

Duties

Develops in depth technical risk prioritizations in accordance with Capital Facilities Improvement Program (CFIP) guidance and NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) 8820.2H requirements for submission to the Office of Strategic Infrastructure. Serves as Center Liaison collaborating with Agency/Mission Directorates for advocacy, as a senior leader in the risk informed decision making, tracking, and planning, implementation and funding for Construction of Facilities and Demolition funding. Develops strategic quadratic charts which definitize cost, mission directorate impacts, project scope, and impacts to Agency if not awarded for submission to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Congress. Develops in-depth specialized risk assessments used to quantitatively depict likelihood and consequence for normalized risk scoring of facility and infrastructure projects. Strategically negotiates and forecasts independent government cost estimates with escalation through multiple fiscal years for Facilities/Real Estate Division for Institutional Repair, Programmatic, Center Institutional Risk Review. Applies expert knowledge and proficient use of the Tririga database for projecting/forecasting Center Capital Improvement Program Planning (CIPP) risk prioritized projects including renewals, repairs, energy, demolition, and consolidation projects. Serves as a technical risk expert to Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI)/Facilities/Real Estate Division (FRED), Center Institutional Risk Review (IRR), Partnership Development Council Legislative Submissions for state legislative submissions. Applies professional communication skills and presentations, both written and oral, to Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI)/Facilities/Real Estate Division (FRED) and JSC Senior Leadership. 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.
• This position requires the incumbent have the following current License and/or Certification: Architecture License.

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: Applying professional skills and expertise in R.S. Means to develop planning level project cost estimates and forecast Approved Facility Project Cost Estimate (AFPCE) for minor and discrete Construction of Facilities projects; Strategically developing and applying professional expertise in Life Cycle Cost and Economic Analysis; Applying certified architectural knowledge in building and life safety codes, master planning, and engineering in facilities and infrastructure risk in drafting conceptual and design standards applicable to facilities. 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]