Increment Payload Manager

Increment Payload Manager

Houston Texas – Johnson Space Center

About Intuitive Machines

Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers. Our mission is to further science and exploration, communications, and economic progress from the Earth to the Moon and beyond. With the first commercial lunar landing in history, multiple NASA lunar missions in development, and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting our customers and the nation in paving the way to return humans to the surface of the Moon. Our world-class team includes experts in all aspects of spacecraft subsystems design, development, and test, on-orbit operations, and safety.

Intuitive Machines is a partner on the NASA Engineering Services contract HSFTIC, which is the Human Space Flight Technical Integration contract. The team at Johnson Space Center is searching for a Increment Payload Manager. The Increment Payload Manager in the International Space Station (ISS) Program Mission Integration and Operations Office will be responsible for supporting the utilization of the ISS, development, management, implementation, and post flight documentation of the mission integration processes that are necessary for the successful integration and execution of research aboard the ISS as well as act as the liaison between NASA's Mission Operations and Utilization Branches.

Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to develop, document, coordinate, implement, and manage the program-level utilization plan and requirements for an increment time frame necessary to operate research on-board the International Space Station (ISS).
• Serves as the liaison between NASA's Utilization (OZ) and Mission Integration (OC) Branches. Specifically, the Increment Team to facilitate payload information transfer and coordinate payload planning and execution concerns including major re-plans, anomaly resolution, science priority calls and science loss documentation.
•  Develop, coordinate inputs and recommendations to program Utilization plans, procedures, schedules, and processes.
• Serves as the research plan focal person to the NASA ISS Increment Team and International Partners.
• Lead integrated payload/utilization analysis and issue resolution during increment preparation and execution to support decision making regarding document development, flight readiness, flight schedule changes, mission duration inquiries and crew time availability impacts to science completion.
• Coordinate and oversee utilization execution in the ISS Management Center (IMC) with the assigned Research Increment Engineers (RIEs) and the Payload Operations Managers (POMs).
• Support the ISS Mission Management Team (IMMT) and Operations Tag-up as the ISS Utilization representative.
• Perform feasibility assessments for an increment to determine risk areas and concerns.
• Participate in post-flight processes, including but not limited to, development and review of the Post Increment Evaluation Report (PIER), crew debriefs, and lessons learned.
• Travel on a periodic basis to support program reviews and technical interchange meeting

Requirements: (This role is posted across levels)

• An Engineering degree from an accredited college or university and five (5) or more years of relevant experience with three (3) years of spaceflight operations and/or integration experience. A higher degree may count in lieu of 2 years of experience. A STEM degree from an accredited college or university may be accepted with 5 years of experience in an engineering role.
• Experience working with the ISS Program Mission Integration & Operations Office, Research Integration Office, or International Partners.
• Experience working on the Increment Management Team and/or in the ISS Management Center (IMC).
• Experience working with the Payloads Operations
• Integration Center (POIC).
• Experience working in the Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) flight planning
• Project management or systems engineering experience

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