Job opening: General Engineer, AST, Technical Management (Direct Hire)
Salary: $140 923 - 183 202 per year
Published at: Dec 05 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Program Operations and Integration Manager for International Space Station (ISS) and Private Astronaut Missions (PAM) in the Mission Operations Branch of the Space Medicine Operations Division serves in the crucial role of providing the technical leadership and integration with other teams within the Human Health and Performance Directorate and with external organizations to provide strategic leadership for PAM and ISS.
Duties
Serve as primary support to the Division lead for International Space Station (ISS) commercialization for Private Astronaut Mission (PAM) activities and back-up Division lead for ISS.
Provide leadership for the transition of PAM medical flight support operations into standard operations for ISS Program support
Serve as the primary Medical Operations technical integrator for PAM to support document reviews, track and integrate actions assigned to medical operations, and ensure compliance with medical operations requirements, including training.
Serve as technical monitor for assigned major projects for ISS/PAM. Includes managing budgets and schedule and assessing long-range mission planning of tasks to anticipate impacts on resources.
Serve as the Medical Operations representative to PAM meetings, panels, and groups, including FOD/ISS Program meetings.
Serve as the Division interface to PAM providers, integrating across a diverse team of flight surgeons, subject matter experts, Chief Medical Officer, behavioral health experts, Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), and engineers.
Formulate technical solutions and develop recommendations on issues/problems with medical operations requirements and interdivisional/interdisciplinary subsystem differences and incompatibilities.
Serve as back-up for ISS Program and Operations Integration Manager and represent the Directorate at Program-level boards, panels, and other technical meetings as necessary.
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 trial 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-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level:
Planning, scheduling, and coordinating resources to ensure completion of medical operations or project requirements;
Applying project management, risk management or budgetary principals to the formulation and technical management of space flight systems or projects;
Implementing technical management activities in support of Human System Integration or payload/system Control Center Operations.
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: nssc-contactcenter@mail.nasa.gov
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