Description:
Duties
- Duties described below are at the full-performance level. Duties assigned at a lower grade level will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee.
- Serve as a materials or fracture control engineer in the design, development, and operations of launch vehicles, spacecraft, payloads, ground systems, and facilities for NASA Programs and Projects.
- Participate on Agency-wide teams of subject matter experts and materials engineers to review spacecraft and launch vehicle subsystem and component designs, hazard reports, variances, and Materials Identification and Usage Lists.
- Solve complex problems in tight timelines by utilizing materials engineering expertise, in-depth processes, and engineering methods to ensure program success.
- Apply a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze, improve team effectiveness ensuring the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, values are communicated, integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives and work.
- Provide solutions to issues associated with aerospace flight hardware, ground support equipment, and related facilities in areas such as materials engineering, fracture control, and non-destructive evaluation.
- Develop, evaluates, selects, and applies advanced structural materials to aerospace systems for spacecraft and or launch vehicles.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
- Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
- You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
- One-year probationary period may be required.
Qualifications
In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
NASA utilizes OPM-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement.
To qualify for GS-11, you must have:
a) You must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the federal sector
- Participating in resolving problems, modifying techniques, and applying new or experimental materials engineering theories to studies in Materials Engineering & Fracture Control;
- Participating in the review of one or more of the basic materials (metals, inter-metallic, ceramics, polymers, and composites) and their application in the development, certification, and sustainment in complex designs;
- Collaborating with multi-discipline engineers to solve technical problems and out brief them to stakeholders.