Serves as principal Deputy to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Director, sharing executive responsibility for leadership, strategic planning, management, and execution. Directs NASA's independent engineering assessment capability, ensuring objective testing, analysis, and evaluation of programs, projects, and institutional issues. Leads a multidisciplinary workforce and acts for the Director, exercising delegated authority to ensure continuity of operations and decision-making.
The Deputy Director, NASA Engineer and Safety Center: Assists the Director in establishing strategic priorities and directing the management and allocation of technical, financial, and organizational resources to ensure the timely execution of high-quality, engineering assessments supporting Agency missions. Serves as a senior authority for engineering, safety, and mission assurance reviews, audits, and enterprise-level evaluations, providing executive recommendations on issues involving significant technical, programmatic, operational, and institutional risk. Directs and evaluates engineering and safety trend analyses to identify emerging risks, systemic vulnerabilities, and cross-program issues, recommending strategies that strengthen Agency-wide mission assurance. Oversees systems engineering reviews of program management practices, technical decision-making processes, and institutional operations, and supports or leads major mishap investigations and reviews as delegated by the Director. Provides executive oversight of engineering assessments, testing, analyses, and evaluations to validate technical conclusions, identify root causes, and recommend corrective and preventive actions that improve the safety, reliability, and performance of NASA programs and facilities. Represents the NESC before senior NASA leadership, Federal agencies, industry partners, academic institutions, and professional organizations, communicating technical findings, and advancing Agency engineering and mission assurance objectives. Promotes an Agency-wide culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and informed risk management through the application of sound engineering and safety and mission assurance principles. Exercises the full authority of the Director when delegated or in the Director's absence, ensuring continuity of executive leadership, organizational effectiveness, and mission accomplishment.
This position has a positive education requirement. To be eligible, you must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, and college/university. A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page. A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science is required. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION: 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, click here.
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