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AST - Aerospace Flight Systems, Aerospace Engineer (Direct Hire)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Posted 44 days ago
Hybrid Houston, TX $145K – $189K Apply by Jun 1, 2026 Aerospace Engineering INTJINTPISTJ EngineeringOperations
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The Cargo Mission Manager (CMM) with the Mission Integration and Operations Office ensures end-to-end integration, verification, and safe delivery of cargo required to sustain ISS operations, crew health, technology, and research objectives. You will directly support mission-essential services by coordinating cargo readiness, resolving technical issues, and enabling real-time decision-making across spacecraft providers, engineering teams, and operations personnel.
What You'll Do
- →Leads, provides direction to a cargo mission team for pressurized cargo involving verification, operations, launch processing, logistics, international partner (IP), and payload integration for flights to the International Space Station (ISS).
- →Leads the coordination and development of pressurized cargo integration processes with IP's and appropriate NASA disciplines.
- →Includes leading pressurized cargo integration discussions, reviews, and Technical Interchange Meetings with NASA and IP’s.
- →Manages NASA and contractor efforts necessary to integrate and deliver mission integration and operations products including all cargo integration products for assigned missions.
- →Manages pressurized cargo integration requirements, products and planning to ensure consistency with ISS Program policies and processes for the flight.
- →Resolves all pressurized cargo integration issues and ensures that ISS Program requirements are integrated with all program elements such as: Flight Operations Directorate, Safety, Engineering, Transportation Integration, and hardware owners.
- →Assigns and manages cargo integration actions and ensures decisions and closure rationale are documented.
Requirements
- ✓If you did not complete a qualifying bachelor's degree, you may be eligible if you have obtained a graduate degree in an AST qualifying field, as listed above.
- ✓Degrees in engineering technology are not considered qualifying for this position.
- ✓Engineering degrees earned within the United States: Engineering degrees earned within the United States must be from a college or university that has at least one ABET accredited engineering program.
- ✓To find out if a school has at least one ABET accredited program, please visit http://www.abet.org.
- ✓Engineering degrees earned outside the United States: Engineering degrees earned outside the United States must be recognized by a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), often known as accords.
- ✓These are non-governmental agreements among organizations that accredit academic degree programs.
- ✓MRAs recognize the substantial equivalence of mature accreditation systems and programs accredited by signatory organizations within their jurisdictions.
- ✓For a listing of Signatories, please visit, https://www.abet.org/global-presence/mutual-recognition-agreements/is-your-program-recognized/.
- ✓Science and other related degrees earned within the United States: Science and other related degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations.
- ✓For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓Science and other related degrees earned outside the United States: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs.
- ✓These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
- ✓All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 96ccf50b-a7f6-457a-97a4-fc2592a4a112
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