Systems & Support Engineering Department Manager

This position will be responsible for the following:

Providing leadership, vision and guidance for Systems & Support Engineering Department
• Working closely with the COSMOS Chief Engineer & Innovation Officer to stabilize, transform and evolve the products, services and solutions that enable Human Space Flight and the COSMOS Program for NASA
• Ensuring Systems Engineering methodologies and techniques appropriate to the engineering discipline are applied across the program.
• Supporting the development of operations concepts, design/procurement specification, interface documentation, and test plans/procedures.
• Ensuring the availability of experts during a project's entire life cycle from the specification and analysis of requirements, through the design of the hardware or software, procurement, fabrication, assembly, to integration and test through operations and system retirement.
• Providing engineering response for Operational support of missions or systems.
• In conjunction with Chief Eng, providing support for the performance of trade studies.
• Working closely with Customer Integration Managers to implement COSMOS scope per the customer agreed to priorities
• Assisting NASA organization with near-term and long-term upgrades and architectures for evolution, efficiency, unification, and modernization and/or replacement of systems and tools under the COSMOS contract.
• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities
• Defining and implementing opportunities for the unification of COSMOS processes, procedures, and techniques for operations, maintenance, and sustainment.
• Developing technical reports and documentation.
• Development of IR&D proposals and coordination of associated activities.
• Provide supervisory leadership to COSMOS Systems & Support Engineering Department Sections/managers
• Coordinate and mentor technical personnel and interns in support of COSMOS Succession plans.
• Project Management Experience with Technical, Cost, and Schedule
• Develop, implement and maintain comprehensive succession plans for all Systems & Support Engineering managers, leads and critical positions.
• Coordinate and mentor personnel in support of COSMOS Succession plans

Basic Qualifications

• MS/MA Degree (or equivalent) in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Management or Chief Engineer or related Experience (10+ yrs)
• Prior experience with projects involving NASA, hardware and software interfaces, and mission control development and operation.
• Demonstrated experience in information technology (IT) security management
• Experience/Certified in Earned Value Management
• Some travel is required within the continental US (20%).
• This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong problem solving, analytical, and presentation skills; as well as the ability to coordinate activities across multiple organizations to ensure the seamless integration of new capabilities into the NASA mission control systems.
• Customer focused and experienced
• Experience with NASA's human spaceflight engineering requirements and operations culture.
• Effective written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience with or knowledge of:
  • Hybrid cloud architectures.
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or related Agile framework experience, deployment
  • ITIL V4 Framework knowledge/experience
  • Model Based Systems Engineering framework knowledge/ experience, deployment
  • Deployment of Capability Maturity Model Level III for Development of S/W

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