Fire Safety Integration Lead for the Lunar Landing System (HLS) (NASA/JSC in Houston)

KBR, Inc.•Houston, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role plays a significant part in ensuring the Human Landing Systems (HLS) program has a robust fire safety approach for its flight hardware, especially in an elevated oxygen environment. The position acts as the primary integration leader between the HLS Program, HLS Crew Compartment Office, test project management/execution, and commercial providers. The integration leader will perform and lead fire safety testing, serve as an interface to commercial providers, collaborate with multiple discipline leads and management, and lead the resolution of significant technical issues that require integration across multiple disciplines and organizations. Extensive experience in engineering integration, testing, fire safety, communication, and leadership is required to help HLS achieve its certification milestones.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent degree
Minimum 15 years' experience in engineering and integration roles
Minimum 5 years' experience with test planning, integration and execution
Project engineering and/or System Engineering/Integration experience
Experience in selection and control of materials, implementation of safety controls, and fire detection/risk mitigation for space vehicle oxygen environment
Demonstrated experience in engineering integration leadership
Demonstrated experience showing self-motivation and proactivity in communicating and integrating with others without a lot of hands-on direction
Demonstrated experience working within a team environment, where the team is distributed across multiple NASA centers
Demonstrated experience in identifying integration concerns and gaps in information and communicating concerns to leadership in a diplomatic manner
Demonstrated experience performing cross-program integration with multiple people for various purposes in parallel
Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience working with flight hardware across multiple disciplines
Preferred experience working with NASA commercial partners

Responsibilities

Provide integration leadership of, and high-level planning for, large-scale fire testing.
Serve as the primary HLS interface on fire safety matters with the fire testing project manager and project engineers, and also as interface to commercial providers regarding test planning.
Collaborate closely with the HLS Chief Engineer to provide influence/directional guidance to fire test planning and execution for both internal NASA tests and commercial partner tests.
Collaborate with fire, materials, and other expert discipline leads, program offices, and cross-program stakeholders on engineering and operations aspects of operating in a high oxygen environment.
Lead resolution of significant technical issues and risks requiring integration across multiple technical disciplines and organizations.
Coordinate with NASA fire safety subject-matter experts and align Moon-to-Mars efforts to enable safe missions in elevated oxygen environments.
Provide strategic recommendations to program management on balancing fire safety approaches throughout the program lifecycle.