Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, United States
$212-217k
Full Time
4 hours ago
Job description
Duties
The Director Office of Safety and Mission Assurance:
- Implements Agency S&MA policies and practices for human spaceflight programs and projects at SSC. This includes monitoring support contractor S&MA efforts.
- Leads the organization and is responsible for workforce and budget, mission assurance functions, processes, and procedures for programs/projects, occupational safety, health, or medical activities related to institutional safety, propulsion and space launch vehicle test operations, and/or range operations.
- Serves as technical expert, policy advisor, and consultant to the Center Director and senior staff on S&MA matters. Advises the Center Director and senior Agency management regarding the overall status of S&MA issues.
- Continually participates with the Program Managers, the Project Managers, and other managers of the functional directorates in the development of policies, procedures, plans, and requirements for S&MA activities.
- Develops plans, schedules, and procedures to implement the S&MA functions for the Program and Projects Offices, other Center organizations, and support on-site contractor organizations.
- Establishes requirements and criteria in procurement documents, and evaluates resulting proposals relative to the design,
manufacturing, qualifications and testing of aerospace spacecraft, systems, subsystems, experiments, and related support equipment. - Provides support for program milestone reviews and provides an assessment report to the Flight Readiness Review Board.
- Serves as the approval authority for the Center Director on requests for waivers to Center Safety policies and regulations; and acts for the program offices when authorized as approval authority for waivers to quality and reliability requirements.
- Monitors spaceflight mission in real time to assist in the analysis of flight anomalies and corrective measures and participates in postflight analysis and test activities.
- Monitors critical and hazardous testing and provides for safety hazards recognition and safety training.
- Works with and supports responsible SSC directorates in environmental health, radiation safety, and range safety to ensure an integrated safety program for the Center, its employees, and tenants.
- Ensures a safe and healthful working environment for all employees, ensures employees are provided adequate training and
instructions on safety issues, and ensures that safety is a top priority in facility management and operations. - Fosters and continually drives a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence, and innovation within and outside of the organization and NASA. Champions the Agency's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and creates an environment and culture that promotes and enables the Agency's commitment to safety, inclusion, integrity, teamwork, and excellence.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- The individual selected will be required to file an 'Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report' (OGE-278) in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
- Initial Senior Executive Service (SES) Career appointee is subject to a one-year probationary period.
- Successful completion of a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
- Successful completion of pre-employment and random drug testing may be required.
- Must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Qualifications
Your application package must be in your own words. 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. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.
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 (this means you were previously employed as a Career SES employee and you successfully completed a one-year probationary period), or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and been certified by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) you MUST submit a resume and in a separate document address the MTQs. Any ECQs submitted will not be considered. Your resume must clearly state that you are a current career SES, eligible for reinstatement, or SES CDP certified and year of certification.
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. 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 experience in leading and directing occupational safety, health, or medical activities related to institutional safety, propulsion and space launch vehicle test operations, and/or range operations.
MTQ 2- Demonstrated experience in leading and managing an organization, including workforce and budget, responsible for safety and mission assurance functions, processes, and procedures for programs/projects. This includes system safety, hazard analysis and quality assurance, pressure system and pressure vessel management, and risk management.
Education
This position has a positive education requirement. To be eligible, you must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, and college/university.
A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION: 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 credential evaluation service 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, click here.
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Benefits
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How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
All qualifications requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
We will review your resume and required documents to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the basic qualification requirements, your application will be evaluated based on your narrative statements addressing the ECQs and MTQs. Your application may then be referred to and evaluated by an Executive Resources Panel (ERP) and will be placed in one of the following categories: Not Qualified, Qualified, or Highly-qualified. Candidates may receive an interview and/or be asked to provide a list of references. The ERP will make a recommendation to the appropriate approving authority.