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Safety Engineer
Headquarters, NASA · Posted 80 days ago
Hybrid Huntsville, AL $148K – $197K Apply by Jul 20, 2026 Safety Engineering ENTJENTPINTJINTP Engineering
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As a Safety Engineer, you will support the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and provide institutional safety program expertise across the Agency. You will also be responsible for the development of policy and program elements ensuring Agency compliance with Federal Safety Program requirements and closely related industry standards.
What You'll Do
- →Provide industrial/infrastructure safety program guidance and oversight to Centers, Enterprise Organizations and Programs across the Agency, including commercial partners and Federal tenants.
- →Develop and benchmark policy for Agency and partner operations related to industrial/infrastructure safety.
- →Make observations and recommendations to senior managers to drive changes in safety and health policy, processes, risk mitigation strategies and collaborative work initiatives.
- →Prioritize work and integrate overlapping tasks performed by Institutional Safety Management Office staff, contract staff, Center experts and Agency working groups to meet strategic goals of the Institutional Safety Program.
- →Develop elements of Agency strategy supporting safety engineering, safety and operational readiness certification, inspection and design review processes, and industrial safety surveillance.
- →Develop an integrated strategy to promote coordinated tasks and initiatives of the Occupational Safety, Industrial/Infrastructure Safety and Process Safety program areas.
- →Manage development of new tools, processes, metrics, assessments, training and communications designed to help improve the Institutional Safety Program.
- →Design and execute audit and assessment programs for industrial and infrastructure safety, including peer reviews of building, fire, electrical, lifting device, and construction safety compliance.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Requirement: You must have successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major in engineering.
- ✓The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
- ✓Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those individuals who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
- ✓For example, an individual who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- ✓Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional.
- ✓Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements.
- ✓Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience.
- ✓(The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) U.S. 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/.
- ✓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.
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