Systems Engineer Mission Lead (NASA Sounding Rocket Program)

Peraton is seeking an Lead Systems Engineer to support NASA's Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC), which is a sub-orbital space flight program located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), a part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Wallops Island, VA is a remote location. NSROC provides suborbital launch vehicles, payload development and field operations support to NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The program enables the collection of Earth, Heliophysics and Astrophysics science.

The NASA's Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) located at the Wallops Flight Facility. NSROC supports approximately 18 sounding rocket shots per year. This program supports a range of scientific and government experiments. Missions are flown from a variety of launch sites including but not limited to: Wallops, White Sands Missile Range, Poker Flats Rocket Range, Alaska, Kwajalein, Andoya, and Norway.

Responsibilities of the position:

Responsible for ensuring all cost, schedule and technical requirements of assigned projects are coordinated, prepared and accurate.
• Responsible for ensuring all technical requirements of assigned missions are coordinated, prepared and accurate.
• Act as the NSROC central point of contact for the Science Team, government customer, and Program Office relating to all assigned missions and projects.
• Coordinate execution of all design and fabrication of assigned missions.
• Coordinate functional analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware specifications.
• Direct and coordinate Mission Team efforts for design and fabrication activities from MIC through PIR of the mission lifecycle.
• Ensure the payload, launch vehicle and GSE are integrated to meet the Mission's Success Criteria.
• Assist the NASA MM to develop the Mission Requirements Matrix including stated, implied, and derived requirements from the Principal Investigator
• Compile and coordinate the Comprehensive Test Plan to ensure that all payload, Launch Vehicle, and GSE systems, subsystems, and components are accurately verified as identified in the Mission Requirements Matrix.
• Perform Mission Risk Assessment and compile I coordinate mitigation plans to minimize mission risk. Ensure that the mitigation plans are adequately completed to minimize risk.
• Perform Interface Control to ensure that all applicable payload and launch vehicles interfaces are adequately assessed to verify that the flight and GSE systems, subsystems, and components usage outside the flight experience envelope is identified and adequately assessed.
• Ensure logical and systematic conversion of customer requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraint.
• Operational Safety knowledge in one or more of the following areas: pressure, lifting, mechanical ordnance, cryo and chemical.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering field with 6 years of experience.
• Experience in a lead engineering role
• Experience with Operational Safety, pressure, mechanical ordnance
• Experience with Quality Management System
• Ordnance Awareness

Ability to obtain a public trust.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with NASA Sounding Rocket launches

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