NASA HALO Safety Engineer

Work Location: Houston, TX - NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Clearance: US Government (Public Trust)

JOB DESCRIPTION: NASA HALO Safety Engineer

Our team has an exciting and challenging opportunity to support NASA’s present and future human spaceflight programs. The Habitat and Logistics Outpost (HALO) Safety Engineer provides Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) support to the Quality and Flight Equipment Division (NT) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for HALO project design and development activities for NASA’s Gateway Program. The HALO Safety Engineer’s mission for HALO project safety and reliability support is to assure overall design/safety requirements robustness, to assure adequacy of the overall safety assessment (Hazard Reports and FMEA/CILs), and to provide engineering expertise toward the certification efforts that qualify mission functionality as part of NASA’s formal acceptance. Additionally, the HALO Safety Engineer will assist the project with anomaly resolution and will communicate any associated project risks up through the appropriate SMA chain of command. The role will require support of a variety of HALO subsystem teams, as well as support of various HALO boards, panels, working groups, and their associated functions/actions.

Through provision of the assurance function to the HALO project team, the HALO Safety Engineer contributes to design reviews as the subject matter expert for SMA to assure design/safety requirements definition and the selection of appropriate testing/verification methods. As the design matures, the HALO Safety Engineer uses risk assessment tools (e.g., Hazard Analysis, FMEA/CILs, Fault Tree Analysis, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)) to identify hazards/causes, to ensure adequate controls are in place, and to eliminate/reduce risk as necessary to mitigate overall system effect. While formulating the S&MA response to system design and safety products, the HALO Safety Engineer integrates and coordinates inputs for all necessary NASA stakeholders associated with HALO and its lifecycle. The HALO Safety Engineer also reviews Testing and Verification Plans to assess adequacy of control strategies and assures that compliance with qualification verifications and the NASA acceptance/certification requirements. Throughout the project’s lifecycle, the HALO Safety Engineer provides presentations to S&MA, project, and program management as necessary regarding safety, risk summaries, and dissenting opinions.

The HALO Safety Engineer also provides support toward anomaly investigation and resolution efforts. This may involve the provision of fault trees and historical failure data pertaining to the applicable HALO system. Travel may be required (less than 10%) in support of milestone review activities at the HALO prime contractor’s location in Dulles, Virginia.

REQUIREMENTS: NASA HALO Safety Engineer

Education: BS in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering

Year(s) of Experience: 5+ years of experience with hazard/safety analysis and/or NASA hardware and operations, including support of vehicle subsystems. Experience with avionics and FMEA / CILs is highly desired.

Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen

Required Skills and Traits:

• Superb written and oral communications skills for frequent correspondence with project stakeholders and multiple layers of management
• Excellent people skills required along with demonstrated excellent professional behavior interfacing with customers and department management.
• Understanding of JSC processes and requirements for the design, engineering, production and test activities of Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) for utilization supporting human space flight for BOE development as well as the near real time operational support needs.
• Familiarity with the NASA JSC GFE flight hardware life cycle and certification process
• Detailed understanding of the purpose and operation of the various NASA review and approval boards and panels governing the acceptance of GFE hardware and software for human spaceflight application.
• Must be able to pass a Government Background check to receive a Public Trust clearance
• Must be able to travel (~10%) to customer work location as needed

Other Desired Skills:

• Experience in real-time operations monitoring
• Working knowledge of ISS hardware/systems, the operations thereof, and the associated operational environment
• Working knowledge of EVA/EMU hardware/systems, the operations thereof, and the associated operational environment
• Familiar with NASA, DOD or other industry Safety, Reliability, and quality processes
• Familiar with Safety or Reliability related products such as hazard analysis, FMEA/CILs, PRA, and Fault Trees (including prior authoring experience)
• Experience with project management, planning, scheduling, etc.

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