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AST - Experimental Facilities Techniques (Direct Hire)
Ames Research Center · Posted 1 days ago
Hybrid Moffett Field, CA $157K – $197K Apply by Jul 14, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will manage the reliability-centered maintenance program for the Ames Research Center jet facility, overseeing Computerized Maintenance Management System driven maintenance planning, asset health, and system availability. Provides technical leadership for industrial support systems and ensures safe, reliable operation of high-energy test facility infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- →Lead the branch’s reliability-centered maintenance planning and execution for heater assets and industrial support systems (e.g., cooling water, deionized (DI) water, cryogenics, vacuum, high-voltage (HV) power, gas distribution).
- →Develop and maintain asset criticality rankings, condition-based maintenance strategies, failure modes and effects analyses, root cause analyses to drive reliability, availability, and maintainability outcomes aligned to test mission needs.
- →Configure and administer the computerized maintenance management system to manage the asset hierarchy, preventive maintenance plans, predictive maintenance tasks, and work control.
- →Track and report Mean Time Before Failure, Mean Time To Repair, schedule adherence, backlog health, Periodic Maintenance/Corrective Maintenance ratio, and spare parts turns; generate dashboards to inform facility readiness.
- →Build integrated maintenance schedules coordinating with test operations to protect throughput.
- →Deploy Performance Testing and Inspection methods to transition to condition based maintenance.
- →Establish critical spares lists and stocking strategies for long lead, high-risk components.
- →Manage obsolescence, vendor relations, and parts qualification; plan refurbishment cycles, mid-life overhauls and recapitalizations.
- →Implement work control processes (planning, permits, Lock out tag out) per NASA safety requirements.
- →Ensure compliance with pressure, electrical, hoisting, fall protection, confined space, and hazmat standards; coordinate hazard analyses.
- →Maintain configuration control and make recommendations to update as-builts, periodic maintenance procedures, and verification records.
- →Collaborate with engineering on design changes, risk acceptances, and reliability upgrades.
- →Lead maintenance inputs to Facility Readiness Reviews and readiness assessments.
- →Lead technicians and contractors; define qualification matrices, On the Job Training plans, and refresher training.
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
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