Aerospace Engineer, AST, Reliability and Quality Assurance

SummaryThe Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate is seeking to hire a Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Workmanship and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Program Manager in the Quality Engineering Branch. In this capacity, you will be responsible for the application, evaluation and implementation of NASA Workmanship Standards to Goddard to ensure the control of design features, materials, and assembly processes to achieve the desired durability and reliability for flight parts and components.ResponsibilitiesDevelops and maintains a program to assess in-house as well as contractor workmanship implementation relative to hardware manufacturing and assembly, including surveying capabilities, monitoring performance, and auditing the quality of production.Facilitates the use of production techniques and processes that minimize defects and that maximize performance within cost, schedule and fault tolerance constraints.Evaluates design for manufacturability and analyze technology-based or quality-based risks that adversely impact intended processes or outcomes and determine risk mitigations.Develops new problem resolution techniques in areas such as flight systems, wiring preparation, cable harness, printed wiring boards, surface mount technology, conformal coating and staking, fiber optics and/or electrostatic discharge.Researches and reports quality assurance health for parts, materials and processes that affect mission and other critical hardware including supporting internal and external quality assurance compliance auditing functions and/or reviews.Serve as an expert consultant on the most challenging problems in electrostatic discharge control, quality processes, and/or workmanship implementation for the center.Provides advice and guidance to compliance to workmanship standards and procedures.Serves as the center authority on technical committees and advisory groups concerned with establishing and administering standards for engineering programs of national or international scope.Develops broad requirements, policies, procedures, and operational schedules for assigned programs or projects in areas such as flight systems or measurement and instrumentation systems.RequirementsConditions of EmploymentYou must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.QualificationsIn addition to the basic education requirement, applicant must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-13), which has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above.To qualify for the GS-14, specialized experience includes performing duties such as:* Experience with quality assurance engineering methodologies of electrostatic discharge and workmanship standards implementation across a full project life-cycle.* Experienced in the proper use of protective material including wrist straps, garments, grounding mats, and workbenches in a testing laboratory environment, and best practices of handling and fabricating space flight hardware.* Experience in the use and interpretation of government, agency, and industry rules and federal regulations with emphasis on quality and reliability assurance deliverables and compliance.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.Please spell out all acronyms.EducationBasic Education Requirement: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in Aeronautical Engineering, Aeronautics, Aerospace Engineering, Architecture, Astronautical Engineering, Astronautics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Ceramic Engineering, Ceramics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science*, Life Science, Earth and Planetary Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Industrial Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics (Pure or Applied), Applied Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Metallurgy, Meteorology, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Physics, Oceanography, Optical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Engineering Physics, Space Science, Structural Engineering, Welding Engineering or other appropriate physical science or engineering field.

Degrees in engineering technology are not considered to be qualifying for this position. *Note: Curriculum must include 30 semester hours of course work in a combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science that provided in-depth knowledge of the following: (1) theoretical foundations 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; and (2) essential mathematical and statistical techniques. Of the 30 semester hours, 15 must be in any combination of statistics and mathematics which includes differential and integral calculusU.S.

Engineering degrees must have been awarded from a college or university school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). To find out if a degree meets this requirement, go to http://www.abet.org. Foreign Engineering degrees 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 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/. 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://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.Official transcripts will be required at the time of selection to verify that you meet the educational requirement or substitution.Additional InformationThis position is announced under Direct Hire authority. Recruitment for this position will follow guidelines established by the Office of Personnel Management for use of Direct Hire authority.As identical vacancies are identified, additional selections may be made. You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.If you have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), you must:Indicate your eligibility when applying for a position.

The USAJOBS resume asks you to identify your ICTAP eligibility; the NASA Supplemental Information asks you to identify your CTAP eligibility.Be well qualified for this position to receive consideration. See 'How You Will Be Evaluated' for NASA's definition of well qualified.Be prepared to submit proof that you meet the requirements for CTAP/ICTAP if you are selected for the position. This includes copies of your agency notice, most recent Performance Rating and most recent Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) noting current position, grade level, and duty location.