Project Engineer, Electrical Engineering

Location: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Clearance:
National Agency Check and Inquiries (NACI) with ability to obtain a Security Clearance

Summary: Craig Technologies has an opening for a Project Engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this role, you play a pivotal part in the successful execution of projects and delivery of hardware to NASA/JSC in support of exploration missions. Supporting the Research Operations and Integration (ROI) hardware in SF4, you will provide support services to payload developers, reducing technical and schedule risk throughout the process of developing and certifying hardware, software, and the experiment package for mission operations.

You serve as the hardware expert and technical point of contact for the Project Manager within the HHPC Engineering Department. You will:

• Strategize, Oversee, and Participate in hands-on development activities
• Write Task Performance Sheet and Disposition of Discrepancy Reports
• Generate, review and understanding engineering drawings
• Analyze test results, produce detailed reports, and recommend design improvements
• Support Human-In-The-Loop testing
• Coordinate multiple highly technical and complex development threads within the context of and in pursuit of the success of larger projects
• Distill high-level project goals into discrete project tasks to ensure project successful completion on schedule.

You bring experience in component fabrication, hardware assembly, testing of subassemblies and major assemblies. You use your experience to troubleshoot hardware assemblies, test setup, optimize processes for manufacturing. You will also perform root cause analysis, failure investigation, risk management, and apply lessons learned. You comply with K ’s Safety, Health and Environmental Plan, Quality Plan, and all safety policies and procedures, and complete all assigned training.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience
• 2+ years of experience in development of space hardware design or similar work with Human Landing System or other NASA/JSC exploration programs (e.g. Orion)
• Experience with configuration and data management processes and submitting Change Requests
• Experience with manufacturing, test, and troubleshooting of hardware
• Experience with root cause analysis and failure investigation

• Effective communication with the project, other engineers, technical support staff, NASA vendors, and quality engineering
• Able to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Able to work in a team environment
• Able to develop and clearly communicate information to technical forums
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and test space related hardware
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including project reports and technical memos
• Familiarity with NASA Flight Hardware development requirements and processes
• Effective at handling multiple tasks, flexible, and responding quickly to change

This position is expected to be 100% on site and in person. Occasional travel may be required.

Craig Technologies is an EEO Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other non-job-related protected status. All candidates selected will be subject to a security background investigation and must meet all eligibility requirements for access to classified information.