Manager for Safety and Mission Assurance/Program Risk Office
This position reports to the Manager, International Space Station Program. The Manager for Safety and Mission Assurance/Program Risk Office utilizes qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques to identify, understand, and control/mitigate risk. Specifically:
- Responsible for providing advice and counsel on the International Space Station to multiple commercial providers in an environment that ensures the safety of the crew and vehicle while allowing the providers to operate in innovative approaches not previously used by the government. - Establishes the overall safety, reliability, and quality assurance policy and requirements for the ISS Program; provides top-level Program guidance on safety, reliability, maintainability, and quality assurance (SRM and QA) processes and activities for each Program phase, including design, development, launch operations, flight and return; and reviews the implementation of SRM and QA activities within NASA and contractor Program activities using expertise in government and commercial aerospace and payload systems including structures and mechanisms; propulsion; power; communications and tracking; command and data handling; guidance, navigation and control; avionics; crew systems and equipment; environment control; materials and components; and thermal control. - Develops top-level SRM and QA requirements for ISS hardware and software systems. - Manages the S&MA/PR budget and schedule and the complement of S&MA/PR personnel assigned to the Program, matrixing these personnel to appropriate teams. - Provides oversight of the Program-wide implementation of assurance criteria and risk strategies. Works closely with Program line managers during all phases of the development and operations life cycle to tailor assurance requirements to the level of risk. - Reviews vehicle development, operations, and science and utilization activities for any programmatic or technical areas that pose a risk to overall Program success. - Identifies integrated Program control and engineering tools and processes necessary to generate, integrate, assess, and mitigate Program-wide risk. Coordinates the tools and processes across the Program management team. - Develops risk mitigation strategies as warranted by analysis results, which may include such strategies as recommended reallocations of Program resources, changes in technical content or manifest, applying additional expertise or attention, independent verification of safety critical functions, independent validation of critical mission scenarios, non-advocate reviews, and/or rephrasing of Program schedules. - Establishes requirements and criteria in procurement documents, and evaluates resulting proposals relative to the S&MA aspects of design, manufacturing, qualifications and testing of aerospace spacecraft, systems, subsystems, payloads, experiments, and related support equipment. You must have the skill and ability to perform the duties described above as demonstrated by progressively responsible supervisory/leadership experience, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you MUST address each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) and Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) separately. If you fail to do so, your application will be rated ineligible. We recommend you provide two (2) examples of relevant experience for each ECQ. Responses to ALL ECQs must not exceed ten (10) pages; MTQ responses must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Please include your full name on all documents submitted. If you are currently serving under a career SES appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES, or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and been certified by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) you MUST address the MTQs, but do not need to address the ECQs. When preparing your responses to the ECQs and MTQs, you are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action, and Result model outlined in the OPM's Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualification and NASA's Guide to Effectively Preparing Executive Core Qualifications. For a sample template on how to format your ECQ narrative visit NASA's Executive Leadership Opportunities. EXECUTIVE CORE
Qualifications:
ECQ 1 - Leading Change:
The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 - Leading People:
The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 - Results Driven:
The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. ECQ 4 - Business Acumen:
The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions:
The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL
Qualifications:
MTQ 1- Demonstrated engineering and operations experience sufficient to assess government and commercial aerospace and payload systems including structures and mechanisms; propulsion; power; communications and tracking; command and data handling; guidance, navigation and control; avionics; crew systems and equipment; environment control; materials and components; and thermal control. MTQ 2- Demonstrated experience in analyzing, managing, and communicating overall crew and vehicle risks for a major human-rated aerospace program and the engineering and space flight operations knowledge required in resolving human spaceflight life threatening anomalies.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
- Responsible for providing advice and counsel on the International Space Station to multiple commercial providers in an environment that ensures the safety of the crew and vehicle while allowing the providers to operate in innovative approaches not previously used by the government. - Establishes the overall safety, reliability, and quality assurance policy and requirements for the ISS Program; provides top-level Program guidance on safety, reliability, maintainability, and quality assurance (SRM and QA) processes and activities for each Program phase, including design, development, launch operations, flight and return; and reviews the implementation of SRM and QA activities within NASA and contractor Program activities using expertise in government and commercial aerospace and payload systems including structures and mechanisms; propulsion; power; communications and tracking; command and data handling; guidance, navigation and control; avionics; crew systems and equipment; environment control; materials and components; and thermal control. - Develops top-level SRM and QA requirements for ISS hardware and software systems. - Manages the S&MA/PR budget and schedule and the complement of S&MA/PR personnel assigned to the Program, matrixing these personnel to appropriate teams. - Provides oversight of the Program-wide implementation of assurance criteria and risk strategies. Works closely with Program line managers during all phases of the development and operations life cycle to tailor assurance requirements to the level of risk. - Reviews vehicle development, operations, and science and utilization activities for any programmatic or technical areas that pose a risk to overall Program success. - Identifies integrated Program control and engineering tools and processes necessary to generate, integrate, assess, and mitigate Program-wide risk. Coordinates the tools and processes across the Program management team. - Develops risk mitigation strategies as warranted by analysis results, which may include such strategies as recommended reallocations of Program resources, changes in technical content or manifest, applying additional expertise or attention, independent verification of safety critical functions, independent validation of critical mission scenarios, non-advocate reviews, and/or rephrasing of Program schedules. - Establishes requirements and criteria in procurement documents, and evaluates resulting proposals relative to the S&MA aspects of design, manufacturing, qualifications and testing of aerospace spacecraft, systems, subsystems, payloads, experiments, and related support equipment. You must have the skill and ability to perform the duties described above as demonstrated by progressively responsible supervisory/leadership experience, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you MUST address each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) and Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) separately. If you fail to do so, your application will be rated ineligible. We recommend you provide two (2) examples of relevant experience for each ECQ. Responses to ALL ECQs must not exceed ten (10) pages; MTQ responses must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Please include your full name on all documents submitted. If you are currently serving under a career SES appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES, or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and been certified by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) you MUST address the MTQs, but do not need to address the ECQs. When preparing your responses to the ECQs and MTQs, you are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action, and Result model outlined in the OPM's Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualification and NASA's Guide to Effectively Preparing Executive Core Qualifications. For a sample template on how to format your ECQ narrative visit NASA's Executive Leadership Opportunities. EXECUTIVE CORE
Qualifications:
ECQ 1 - Leading Change:
The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 - Leading People:
The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 - Results Driven:
The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. ECQ 4 - Business Acumen:
The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions:
The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL
Qualifications:
MTQ 1- Demonstrated engineering and operations experience sufficient to assess government and commercial aerospace and payload systems including structures and mechanisms; propulsion; power; communications and tracking; command and data handling; guidance, navigation and control; avionics; crew systems and equipment; environment control; materials and components; and thermal control. MTQ 2- Demonstrated experience in analyzing, managing, and communicating overall crew and vehicle risks for a major human-rated aerospace program and the engineering and space flight operations knowledge required in resolving human spaceflight life threatening anomalies.
- Department:
0801 General Engineering - Salary Range:
$170,801 to $182,423 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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