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General Engineer, AST, Flight Systems Training and Operations (Direct Hire)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Posted today
HybridHuntsville, AL$56K – $93KApply by May 21, 2026General EngineeringENTJINTJINTPISTJEngineeringOperations
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This vacancy consists of a variety of positions and grade levels aimed at insourcing critical skills. Roles may include 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
- →Duties described below are at the highest grade advertised.
- →Duties assigned at lower grade levels will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee.
- →Attaining specific skills required for mission success for human space flight operations.
- →Assisting in providing timely technical support and troubleshooting reported issues to maintain continuity of mission or training activities.
- →Performing basic task and/or project management which may include planning, integration, design, implementation, test and evaluation, verification, and validation.
- →Assisting in providing technical training and certification for spaceflight crews and ground staff through briefings, classes, part-task and one-g trainers, water-tank training, mission simulators, and other specialized facilities.
- →Participating in mission, spacecraft, on-board or ground systems, and mission trainer requirements definition and design activities necessary to ensure compatibility between mission objectives, vehicle capabilities, crew safety, and mission success.
- →Planning, developing, integrating, and directing real-time operations for human space flight and robotic space vehicles.
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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