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

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

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What You’ll Do

You will play a significant role to help Human Landing Systems (HLS) ensure a robust fire safety approach for the use of its flight hardware in an elevated oxygen environment.  You will act as the primary integration leader between HLS Program and HLS Crew Compartment Office, test project management/test execution, and commercial providers. In this integration role, you will perform integration and provide integration leadership for fire safety testing, serve as an interface to commercial providers, collaborate with multiple discipline leads and management, and lead resolution of significant technical issues that require integration across multiple disciplines and organizations.  You will apply extensive experience in engineering integration, testing, fire safety, communication, and leadership to help HLS chart a successful path forward to its certification milestones.     

You Will:

• 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 HLS Chief Engineer in order 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.
• Demonstrate strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with enthusiasm for diving deep into technical fire safety issues and driving effective solutions.
• 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.

What you Bring

You bring extensive engineering leadership experience across multiple disciplines and experience in fire and material combustion test planning and integration.  You use your integration experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, negotiate within HLS and its commercial providers, integrate with other Programs to support integrated projects, and perform cross-program integration to help HLS Program ensure success of its fire safety efforts. These HLS efforts include material selection/control, preventing faults that lead to fires, and fire detection and mitigation.

Your Qualifications

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

Your Skills

• 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)

What to Expect

You will work onsite at Johnson Space Center within a large team of System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) personnel who work across multiple NASA centers in a hybrid environment.  Periodic travel is expected. Hybrid work is available for this position with minimum of 3 days in office each week.

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KBR Benefits  

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule.  We support career advancement through professional training and development.  

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Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

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