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Supervisory General Engineer, AST, Experimental Facilities Techniques
Ames Research Center · Posted 143 days ago
Hybrid Moffett Field, CA $185K – $197K Apply by May 18, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ EngineeringOperations
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You will serve as the Deputy Branch Chief providing senior leadership for NASA's thermos-physics facilities, directing safe, reliable, and high-fidelity test operations that support thermal protection and hypersonic mission needs. The role manages workforce, resources, and strategic capability development; ensures configuration and safety compliance; leads technical authority functions; oversees modernization efforts; and represents the facility to programs and center leadership.
What You'll Do
- →Assists the Branch Chief in strategic planning, mission execution, workforce management, and overall branch leadership.
- →Helps develop long-term capability strategies, workforce planning, and technology investments.
- →Performs a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees.
- →Oversees day-to-day operations of ground test facilities, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient test execution that meets project requirements.
- →Provides technical leadership for test planning, configuration control, test readiness activities, and operational decision-making.
- →Coordinates across engineering, safety, quality, research, facility operations, and project management organizations to align priorities and resolve issues.
- →Ensures compliance with NASA safety and mission assurance requirements, institutional policies, and configuration and risk-management processes.
- →Manages budgets (direct and reimbursable), establishes cost models/rates, and ensures fiscal stewardship for operations, maintenance, and capital investments.
- →Represents the branch in program reviews, audits, customer negotiations, and center governance boards; delivers authoritative briefings on capability, risk, and results.
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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