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Lead AST, Flight Systems Training and Operations (Direct Hire)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Posted 45 days ago
Hybrid Houston, TX $145K – $189K Apply by May 21, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Operations
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This vacancy is aimed at insourcing critical technical leadership skills. Roles may include being the technical lead over 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
- →Serves as a Technical Lead in the Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) leading teams responsible for crew training, flight controller training, mission product development, technical analysis and mission operations.
- →Responsible for ensuring that branch strategic plans, mission, vision, and values are communicated and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, and work.
- →Leads the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees; balancing between FOD or programmatic priorities.
- →Coaches the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods and techniques as well as risk trades while striving for innovative, cost-effective solutions.
- →Serves as coach and facilitator in coordinating team initiatives, implementation, and coalition building.
- →Reports to the supervisor on team and individual work accomplishments, problems, and work processes, including individual and team training needs.
- →Coordinates and leads integration activities across multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment with mission objectives, policies, and Directorate priorities.
- →Addresses complex organizational problems by setting goals and using innovative and original approaches to meet the planning needs of the missions.
- →Performs periodic reviews to assess achievement of major goals.
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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