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General Engineer, AST, Flight Systems Operations (Direct Hire)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Posted today
HybridHouston, TX$145K – $189KApply by May 21, 2026General EngineeringENTJINTJINTPISTJEngineeringOperations
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This vacancy is aimed at insourcing critical technical leadership skills. Roles may include being the technical expert for real-time mission operations in the Mission Control Center, mission systems development, testing, and integration, training and simulation, analysis, and other mission support functions essential to human spaceflight.
What You'll Do
- →Perform long term technical strategic planning and integration.
- →Develop consistent approaches on areas where performance limits are being approached and capture knowledge and lessons learned that could be applied in other programs.
- →Provide recommendations to the leadership team on areas of opportunity and long-range projection of resource needs for technical issue resolution, testing, and operations product management.
- →Develop mission, spacecraft, on-board systems, and/or training requirements necessary to ensure compatibility between mission objectives, vehicle capabilities, crew safety, and mission success.
- →Manage the cumulative effect of operational workarounds and use-as-is decisions for design and manufacturing issues and associated risks.
- →Coordinate and lead integration activities across multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment with mission objectives, policies, and Directorate priorities.
- →Develop/deliver technical briefings, reports, and recommendations to leadership supporting informed decision-making for real-time flight control of human space flight missions, ensuring internal products and processes are consistent between programs.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Education Requirement: You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following: a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science c) Social science, medical, or other fields directly related to the duties of the position.
- ✓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/.
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