Human Exploration – Pressurized Rover – Systems Director

Human Exploration – Pressurized Rover – Systems Director

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or advanced degree in engineering or science
• 12 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including experience in a systems engineering and/or program management environment
• Five years of experience working in mission management and operations type roles
• Knowledge and understanding of the NASA program life cycle
• Working experience with PR project office (SEI, PPC, etc.)
• Ability to effectively utilize oral and written communication to express technical concepts and recommendations to personnel at all technical and managerial levels
• Ability to work in a quick-paced, small core team that leads technical discussions across a large technical community and influences teams across the NASA enterprise
• Initiative and demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers
• Excellent teaming and leadership skills with an ability to multi-task across various issues/disciplines simultaneously
• Excellent presentation and communications skills, including development of and briefing of decision packages and complex information in a succinct and polished manner
• Experience working across diverse teams and many different engineering disciplines
• Knowledge of space flight certification processes to ensure performance and safety requirements are met

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, management as well as content integration expertise to the Aerospace team supporting the PR project office
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with customer leadership
• Develop organizational goals, staffing plans, budget planning, and allocation of resources
• Staff, coordinate, and supervise a high performing team of Aerospace technical personnel integrating complex human-rated systems
• Conduct staff performance reviews and recommend performance improvement, career development, salary and promotion actions; establish staffing needs and recommend reassignments, training, transfers, and other staff deployments; assist other supervisors in evaluation and assignment of staff
• Support EHP PR lifecycle reviews ensuring the program content is delivering on requirements and compliance matters
• Identify Gaps and Risks in provider implementation goals and objectives with regards to requirement compliance and concepts of operations alignment
• Inform and track mitigations to the risks at the project level
• Provide Technical Authorities (TAs) with the support/assessment to effectively develop recommendations on technical issues and identify emerging issues
• Provide subject matter expertise to the PR project office including oversight and coordination of project activities, meetings, and tasks (technical, cost, schedule, and risk)
• Perform integrated engineering deep-dive analysis on special topics, PR test plans/protocols, systems engineering, integration, and test products such as concept definition, trade studies, and verification/validation planning
• Serve as a technical specialist/consultant for a broad range of extravehicular activity (EVA), moon/Mars surface operations, and other engineering/research activities as they related to the PR
• Communicate effectively and be able to summarize and present analysis findings to both Aerospace and NASA Senior Staff
• Participate in NASA, Artemis, PR and EHP Program Office forums
• Develop periodic status reports and presentations, including discussions of findings, issues, conclusions, recommendations, and risk assessments
• Formulate recommendations to senior-level project management
• Serve as a highly proactive technical specialist, understanding issues and formulating options/recommendations, while working closely with the project team and across other offices, teams, working groups, and panels
• Perform other duties for the customer as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of exploration mobility topics and technology
• Eight years of experience with NASA spacecraft systems
• Experience performing or leading technical and programmatic tasks for NASA
• Experience integrating with international projects