Radiation Safety Officer

Radiation Safety Officer

Radiation Safety Officer

Houston, TX

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 multiple NASA lunar missions in development and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting NASA, 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.

About the Position:

The Radiation Safety Officer will establish and lead radiation safety programs supporting the manufacture and inspection of mission-critical spaceflight hardware. The immediate priority is to implement a compliant, production-ready X-ray inspection program for propulsion plumbing welds, including equipment commissioning, facility controls, operating procedures, personnel qualification, dosimetry, training, and regulatory coordination. The role will also assume responsibility for laser radiation safety and may expand to radioactive-material or other nuclear programs as business and program needs develop.

The ideal candidate combines practical radiation-protection expertise with hands-on experience supporting nondestructive examination in a high-reliability manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Build, implement, and maintain the company radiation protection program for X-ray-generating equipment used to inspect propulsion plumbing welds and other flight hardware.
• Lead the X-ray inspection program from concept through production release, including equipment selection and acceptance, facility layout, shielding design coordination, controlled-area definition, interlocks, warning systems, surveys, commissioning, and readiness reviews.
• Develop and control radiation safety procedures, operating instructions, inspection workflows, emergency response plans, postings, access controls, recordkeeping, and audit processes using the ALARA principle.
• Obtain and maintain required registrations, permits, licenses, and agency correspondence for radiation-producing equipment and, if introduced, radioactive materials; serve as the primary contact for regulatory inspections and reportable events.
• Define personnel monitoring requirements; administer dosimetry, exposure investigations, area monitoring, instrument selection, calibration, and retention of occupational dose and survey records.
• Establish initial and recurring radiation safety training for operators, radiographers, maintenance personnel, emergency responders, contractors, and other affected employees; verify authorization and competency before independent work.
• Partner with Quality, Welding, Materials and Processes, Manufacturing, Facilities, and EHS teams to integrate radiographic inspection into qualified weld-production and acceptance plans.
• Support development and validation of radiographic techniques for thin-wall tubing, complex weld geometries, and aerospace alloys; ensure image quality, traceability, configuration control, and reliable defect detection meet drawing, customer, and program requirements.
• Coordinate qualification and certification of nondestructive testing personnel and procedures to applicable customer, industry, and company requirements, including NAS 410 or equivalent requirements when invoked by contract.
• Evaluate radiation-safety risks for new equipment, processes, facility changes, and maintenance activities; lead hazard analyses, pre-job briefs, corrective actions, and management reviews.
• Investigate abnormal exposures, interlock failures, procedural deviations, and radiation-related incidents; establish containment, notification, root cause, corrective action, and recurrence-prevention measures.
• Serve as or develop into the company Laser Safety Officer, maintaining a laser safety program consistent with applicable regulations and ANSI Z136 requirements, including hazard classification, controls, eyewear selection, training, inventories, and incident response.
• Assess future nuclear or radioactive-material program needs and develop a compliant framework for source receipt, use, security, storage, leak testing, inventory, transfer, transportation, and disposal if such materials are introduced.
• Maintain complete, inspection-ready…