Title: | Starlab Chief Medical Officer | Department: | |
FLSA Status: | Exempt | Reports to: | COO |
Job Group: | | Location | Houston, TX |
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Mission of the Position |
The Starlab Chief Medical Officer ensures astronaut health and medical readiness across all mission phases. This role leads medical standards, crew certification, and risk mitigation, integrating with engineering and operations. A board-certified Aerospace Medicine physician, the CMO safeguards human performance for safe, sustained spaceflight in a multinational program environment. |
Essential Duties |
- Provide leadership as the Starlab program medical authority, supporting boards and reviews with medical perspective and ownership of medical risk.
- Lead development and implementation of Starlab medical standards, requirements, and hazard controls across Program elements.
- Define and ensure the medical certification and readiness of assigned astronauts for Starlab missions.
- Oversee the medical care, exercise physiological support and psychological support of Starlab crews, ensuring that the implementation of care meets Starlab and customer requirements.
- Ensure that mission and program risk management processes account for medical considerations and appropriately address areas of medical risk.
- Support Starlab engagement with Human Research Independent Review Board activities and decisions.
- Participate in the development of Starlab medical operations team definition and implementation, providing medical expertise in evaluation of partner and contractor capabilities and performance.
- Evaluate potential customer and partner medical capabilities and take part in acceptance and certification decisions for their participation in Starlab mission activities.
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Additional Responsibilities |
- Ability to take direction, provide constructive feedback and suggested improvements, and then work independently and with limited oversight.
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment, whether you are the team leader or one of the team members.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize work while ensuring all assigned tasks progress.
- Ability to work in a stressful environment but retain a sense of humor and a positive approach to getting the work done.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to travel several times per year.
- Ability to work late and/or long hours/weeks – not continuously, but when required to meet critical deadlines.
- Ability and willingness to pitch in and help out wherever required
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Supervisory Responsibilities |
No direct supervisory responsibilities but the successful candidate will provide input to the Starlab Mission Segment Lead on the performance of partner/contractor organizations and team members. |
Competencies |
Education: - The candidate should be a qualified physician with medical qualifications and experience treating patients in aerospace settings/environments
Experience: - Fifteen (15) + years’ related experience required, less may be considered if the candidate is otherwise outstanding
- Experience as a practicing physician in a relevant specialization
- Experience in human spaceflight medical operations
- Strong knowledge of exercise physiology, particularly in microgravity
- Familiarity with human research protocols and areas of current research
- Significant experience in leading technical teams and navigating decision-making within an organization
Certifications & Licenses: - U.S. board certification in Aerospace Medicine, or equivalent training and experience including treatment of patients in an aerospace setting
- Licensed to practice medicine in the United States preferred
Talents: - Leadership
- Risk management
- Strategic Planning
- Decision Making
- Clear Communications
- Conflict Resolution
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To meet obligations and signed agreements with NASA which allow access to necessary and critical data to perform these duties, you must be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from NASA, which authorization would not be granted for persons born in, or who have current or dual citizenship in, Russia, China (PRC) or any country from the designated countries list (https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/) that is on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
Starlab Space, LLC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general content and requirements for performance of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.
