Lunar Landing System Fire Safety Integration Lead

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Description

The Human Health and Performance Contract supporting NASA the Johnson Space Center is seeking an experienced Engineer to lead fire safety integrion for the Lunar Landing System in Houston, Texas.

Wh You’ll Do

You will play a significant role to help Human Landing Systems (HLS) ensure a robust fire safety approach for the use of its flight hardware in an eleved oxygen environment.  You will act as the primary integrion leader between the HLS Program and HLS Crew Compartment Office, test project management/test execution, and commercial providers. In this integrion role, you will perform integrion and provide integrion leadership for fire safety testing, serve as an interface to commercial providers, collabore with multiple discipline leads and management, and lead resolution of significant technical issues th require integrion across multiple disciplines and organizions.  You will apply extensive experience in engineering integrion, testing, fire safety, communicion, and leadership to help HLS chart a successful ph forward to its certificion milestones.     

Wh you Bring

You bring extensive engineering leadership experience across multiple disciplines and experience in fire and merial combustion test planning and integrion.  You use your integrion experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, negotie within HLS and its commercial providers, integre with other Programs to support integred projects, and perform cross-program integrion to help HLS Program ensure success of its fire safety efforts. These HLS efforts include merial selection/control, preventing faults th lead to fires, and fire detection and mitigion.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide integrion leadership of, and high level planning for, large-scale fire testing.
• Serve as the primary HLS interface on fire safety mters with the fire testing project manager and project engineers and also as interface to commercial providers regarding test planning.
• Collabore closely with HLS Chief Engineer in order to provide influence/directional guidance to fire test planning and execution for both internal NASA tests and commercial partner tests.
• Collabore with fire, merials and other expert discipline leads, program offices, and cross-program stakeholders on engineering and operions aspects of opering in a high oxygen environment.
• Demonstre strong communicion, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with enthusiasm for diving deep into technical fire safety issues and driving effective solutions.
• Lead resolution of significant technical issues and risks requiring integrion across multiple technical disciplines and organizions.
• Coordine with NASA fire safety subject-mter experts and align Moon-to-Mars efforts to enable safe missions in eleved oxygen environments.
• Provide stregic recommendions to program management on balancing fire safety approaches throughout the program lifecycle.

Required Educion and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant technical degree
• Minimum 15 years experience in engineering and integrion roles
• Minimum 5 years experience with test planning, integrion and execution
• Project engineering and/or System Engineering/Integrion experience
• Experience in selection and control of merials, implemention of safety controls, and fire detection/risk mitigion for space vehicle oxygen environment
• Demonstred experience in engineering integrion leadership
• Demonstred experience showing self-motivion and proactivity in communicing and integring with others without a lot of hands-on direction
• Demonstred experience working within a team environment, where the team is distributed across multiple NASA centers
• Demonstred experience in identifying integrion concerns and gaps in informion and communicing concerns to leadership in a diplomic manner
• Demonstred experience performing cross-program integrion with multiple people for various purposes in parallel
• Excellent communicions skills, both verbal and written
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Preferred Experience:

• Preferred experience working with flight hardware across multiple disciplines
• Preferred experience working with NASA commercial partners

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