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Supervisory AST, Technical Management
John C. Stennis Space Center · Posted 129 days ago
Hybrid Stennis Space Center, MS $148K – $192K Apply by May 28, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ
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The Engineering and Test Directorate at Stennis Space Center is seeking an individual to serve as the Chief of the Test Support Division. You will be responsible for leading a team of Engineers and Technicians in the execution and support of the center's primary line of business: Rocket Propulsion Test. You will provide strategic direction; ensure personnel are trained and ready to execute for the mission; and develop tools and processes to improve capabilities and efficiencies.
What You'll Do
- →Provide leadership of the Test Support Division, coordinating and planning of personnel assignments for the execution and support of propulsion test projects and other technical initiatives supporting NASA, commercial partners, and national programs.
- →Establish, refine, and maintain training and development of personnel in support of directorate activities.
- →Promote consistency, transparency, and accountability across all Engineering and Test Directorate projects.
- →Guide project formulation, resource planning, and integration activities.
- →Ensure projects are properly scoped, resourced, and aligned with directorate and center priorities.
- →Lead a team of personnel to assign work; evaluate performance; mentor personnel; and foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- →Promote professional development and succession planning within the office.
- →Represent the directorate on Agency forums.
- →Provide directorate-level insight, advocate needs, and ensure alignment between local project execution and agency-wide expectations Ensure projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and technical requirements while upholding safety and mission assurance standards.
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.
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