Launch Site Integration Engineer

ARES Corporation•Merritt Island, FL

About The Position

Support the advanced planning and payload processing development team with the development, integration, and requirements management of payload interfaces and services for the NASA Exploration Ground Systems program at KSC.

Requirements

NASA Experience
Excellent presentation skills
Excellent communication skills
MS Office; PowerPoint, Excel, Word
Must be a self-starter who is capable of working independently with minimal direction yet is also comfortable working in a team environment
BA/BS degree and 2 years of related work experience.

Nice To Haves

Systems Engineering
Systems Integration
Requirements
requirements management
Verification and Validation
Mobile Launcher
Planning
Communication
change management
subsystems
requirements closure
innovation
innovative thinking

Responsibilities

Lead technical integration efforts and resolve conflicts as it relates to the cross-program and cross-agency requirements and services.
Lead the development and management of a specific Launch Site Support Plans for each payload being flown on the SLS vehicle.
Lead the requirement change process for payload customer requirements.
Lead planning and coordination of cross-program and agency events associated with payload customer needs.
Assist the Advanced Planning and Payload Integration Manager and Launch Site Integration Manager on complex agency mission assessment and broadly scoped trade studies.
Support technical integration of the SE&I division, facilitate integration activities for the SE&I division.
Support/Lead coordination activities for the SE&I division, acting as integration focal for Division Chief and Deputy Division Chief.
Lead technical forums in support of cross-program and agency technical interchange meetings.
Support development of internal communication data products for payload customers.
Support Space Launch System Program mission dependent equipment milestones to ensure successful cross-program integration occurs.
Participate in technical and management review boards
Serve as the substitute Launch Site Integration Manager at technical forums and boards
Ability to obtain an understanding of the process used to develop program planning budgets, technical data packages, payload "baseball cards", etc. for payload processing at KSC.
Support Systems engineering assessments for payload customer requirements development
Provide formal reports and requirement closure data for requirements burn-down metrics to the program
Lead document change package engineers with writing, reviewing, and presenting systems engineering documents
Present recommendations for requirements management improvements or process streamlining
Communicate and coordinate activities with NASA customers, contract management, and supporting stakeholders