Pressurized Rover Schedule Expert – Program Engineer
| Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
|---|---|
| Location | Houston, TX, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or advanced degree from an accredited program in a technical discipline
- 6 or more years of experience working in technical disciplines across large government programs
- 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.
- Strong project management skills and exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work within a team environment, where the team is distributed across multiple NASA and Aerospace Corporation organizations, projects and programs.
- Ability to identify and communicate concerns to leadership in a diplomatic manner
- Superior analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent tasks and provide direction on competing priorities.
- Extensive knowledge of scheduling principles, tools, and analysis techniques.
- Experience performing probabilistic schedule risk analysis and schedule health analysis.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
- Extensive experience using commercial schedule management tools such as Microsoft Project or Primavera.
- Experience with implementation and management of integrated scheduling tools.
Responsibilities
- Develop, integrate, and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) aligned with the Artemis Pressurized Rover requirements. Update the project schedules regularly (e.g., weekly, monthly) ensuring schedule accuracy and adherence to best practices.
- Analyze schedule performance, calculate metrics, identify critical paths, and provide recommendations to ensure project alignment and performance. Develop and update milestone schedules and phasing plans.
- Maintain summary schedule charts for Artemis missions for integration efforts and milestone reviews. Coordinate with schedulers and manage schedule links across Program Elements.
- Review and report on Pressurized Rover International Partner schedules and provide weekly reports on findings.
- Lead assessments, including schedule risk assessments (SRAs) and other analyses.
- Serve as a highly proactive technical specialist, understanding issues and formulating options/recommendations, while working closely with the headquarters and program teams across other offices, working groups and panels.
- Lead forums and venues to formulate and prepare recommendations on improving the mission integration and operations process and drive an outcome. Identify and initiate next level analysis as needed.
- Perform other duties for the customer as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10 or more years of experience with NASA or on NASA commercial systems and international partners
- Understanding of specific NASA Human Spaceflight topics, including EVA, spacesuits, and rovers
- Extensive project management expertise
- Demonstrated experience with collaborations supporting multiple disciplines/specialties, including with customers, commercial vendors, and international partners