Mechanical Design Chief Engineer, Space Exploration

Overview

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you! We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth.

We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a
Mechanical Design Chief Engineer, Space Exploration Applications to join the team!

Requisition

Qualifications:

This position has been posted at multiple levels.

Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Report directly to the Design and Analysis Group Manager. The position is responsible for the direct technical oversight of approximately 100 people involved in various aspects of Mechanical System Development across and in support of several NASA Engineering Divisions.
• Perform routine mechanical design reviews for cost, schedule, risk management, and deliverable adherence.
• Conduct oversight, mentorship and guidance to individual mechanical design task leads.
• Work with mechanical design task leads to track and maintain efficient task performance.
• Maintain an active list of lessons learned to actively inform design engineers.
• Lead team to conduct troubleshooting, fault tree development and provide technical resolution for anomalies in mechanical systems.
• Maintain active related risk management (technical, cost, and schedule) on all associated mechanical tasks.
• Communicate design status to senior management.
• Work with colleagues to coordinate issue resolution across multiple NASA JSC and JETS contract organizations which could include source limitations, technical challenges, process breakdowns, etc.
• Establish a framework and oversight for technical correctness on all work performed by the design section.
• Conduct design reviews to monitor technical correctness, design project health, and progress.
• Understand and be capable of generating comprehensive design concepts based on a given set of requirements.
• Work with engineers to provide hands-on approach in the hardware design, build and test/verification process.
• Provide rough orders of magnitude (ROM's) and basis of estimates (BOE's) for project and tasks.
• Provide quick technical and administrative response to projects, removing roadblocks to ensure project success and customer satisfaction.
• Work as a Project Technical Design Lead as required to supplement or replace current design lead function.
• Review, develop or update Mechanical Design and Development processes as required.
• Develop succession plan mentoring future Chief Engineers and Technical Design Leads.
• Develop technical training modules as required.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and may be expected to have a related master’s degree and normally possess 10-15 years of related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years  experience with NASA/JSC Mechanical flight intravehicular and extravehicular hardware development processes.
• Prior experience using solid modeling CAD software including PTC CREO, Pro Engineering or Solidworks.
• Experience with ASME Y14.5 Dimensioning and Tolerancing Standards
• Experience with ASME Y14.100 Engineering Drawing Practices Standards
• Experience with tolerance stack up analysis.
• Familiarity with mechanisms design.
• Familiarity with electronics packaging and cabling.
• Prior experience with down and in mechanical component design (including large structures, mechanisms, electronics packaging, fluid systems etc.)
• Previous project or technical team/task management experience required
• Familiarity with NASA…