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Join our team supporting NASA’s Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) for the International Space Station (ISS), commercial space partnerships, and future exploration missions including Artemis and Mars campaigns. This mid-career role involves leadership in controls engineering, software development, and LabVIEW integration for mission-critical systems. You will mentor team members, balance workloads, and act independently on technical matters while contributing to projects that have a significant impact on NASA programs.

Position Description:

This part time position will provide Venting analysis support to the Aerosciences branch (EV33) in the Structural Design and Analysis Division (EV30) at the MSFC’s Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Department. Venting team applies engineering expertise to the design and development of NASA’s Space Launch System launch vehicles by providing analysis vital to the mission success.

Responsibilities:

Specific support to be provided includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Perform analyses and apply physics-based models for the prediction of compartment venting and acoustic environments of space transportation vehicles.

• Apply engineering techniques and procedures to analyze and evaluate specific problems, data, or other work features that are broad in scope and complexity.

• Review and evaluate the quantity, quality, and overall adequacy of results and conclusions drawn from various engineering tasks.

• Prepare and present analyses results to technical teams and review boards.

• Develop and deliver analyses products, documents, presentations, and action item responses.

• Participate in reviews, meetings, teleconferences, and working groups.

• Communicate issues, best practices, lessons-learned and other technical positions related to aerothermal analyses.

• Identify, describe, and communicate potential risks.

• Deliver project briefings to all levels of management.

• Provide clear and effective communication with internal and external partners and stakeholders.

Here's What You'll Need:

A degree from an ABET accredited university is preferred. Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a BS with at least 30+ years (or Masters with 28+ years or PhD with 24+ years) of relevant experience.

• Experience in theoretical/computational analyses of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics of space transportation vehicles.

• Experience in performing compartment venting analyses for space transportation vehicles and payloads using NASA developed models.

• Experience with programming languages such as Python, FORTRAN, MATLAB and their application to modeling and simulation.

• Knowledge of space transportation vehicle design, functions, terminology, interfaces, technical disciplines, and system design.

• Experience with command line interfaces and the Linux operating system.

• Experience with managing large datasets and extracting data to find out and communicate trends in data.

• Experience with ground test and flight data post-processing and analysis.

• Self-motivated, proactive, and effective team players with customer relations skills, familiar with working in a dynamic work environment.

• Ability to perform tasks requiring focus and attention to detail and completed within prescribed organizational schedules.

• Ability to be flexible and easily refocus on tasks when task directions or requirements change.

• Ability to interface and collaborate with all levels of engineering and project management with the ability to lead and influence for consensus.

• Demonstrated experience building strong working relationships with multiple stakeholders, organizing, and facilitating meetings/technical discussions.

• Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams & Outlook) are required.

• Excellent written and oral technical communication skills, with the ability to clearly define and describe a technical subject to peers across various engineering disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering program-level briefings and capability to communicate with program level stakeholders and partners.

Essential Functions

Work Environment:

Office environment. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%). Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%). Requires travel in the domestic USA (5%). Requires ability to work at a computer for long periods of time (100%).

Physical Requirements:

Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%). Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (80%). Requires ability to use stairs or elevators for access between floors and multiple buildings at NASA and our facilities (10%).

Equipment and Machines:

Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).

Attendance:

Normal workday 7:30-4:30, Monday thru Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (10%) to meet schedule milestones and to support technical demands of the job. Regular attendance is a necessity, and adequate arrangements for delegating duties during absences are required.

Other Essential Functions:

The ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgment is essential (100%). Grooming and dress must be appropriate for the position and must not impose a safety risk/hazard to the employee or others.

Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

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