Safety Engineer, SLD 45/SEAT

Safety Engineer, SLD 45/SEAT

Department: Department of the Air Force

Location(s): Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida

Salary Range: $94383 - $145906 Per Year

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Major Duties:

• The United States Space Force (USSF) at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida is searching for a Safety Engineer to support SLD 45/SEAT (NH-0803-03, GS 12/13 equivalent). Description: Serves as the Range Safety point of contact for assigned programs/functions including, but not limited to: launch vehicles, FTS, payloads, ground support equipment and related facilities. The engineer coordinates all Range Safety support activities. Such activities include but are not limited to: safety technical interchange meetings, formal Program Introduction, program requirement documents, statement of capability, hardware reviews, procedure reviews, anomaly/incident resolution, and launch area hazard discussions, and FAA/AST interaction. As a systems safety engineering expert, the engineer will be assigned as the Program Lead systems Safety Engineer responsible for overall Systems Safety for assigned programs. The engineer may be assigned as a functional lead cross-programs for such functions as payloads, facilities and Flight termination systems (FTS). The engineer coordinates all range Safety support for assigned programs as necessary. In particular, the engineer must recognize when it is necessary to make use of SE equivalent engineering experts, within assigned programs. The engineer maintains an area of specific and high level engineering expertise with unique applications to launch vehicle, payload, ground support equipment, and related facilities such as, but not limited to: Range safety systems such as flight termination systems, range tracking systems, or telemetry data transmissions; material handling equipment such as cranes or launch vehicle stands; high pressure systems including composite overwrapped pressure vessels; nondestructive examination techniques; welding techniques; explosives/pyrotechnic systems; ionizing and non-ionizing radiation sources and controls; propulsion systems, power systems; diffusion modeling for toxic propellants, explosive overpressure modeling, launch pad and facility design and siting and lightning protection. The engineer provides unique expertise to all other programs as necessary. The engineer serves as a technical expert on the limitations of proven concepts and practices of safety engineering (and in one or more particular areas of engineering expertise) as they apply to the design, testing and operations of assigned programs. The engineer tailors the (applicable) SPFCMAN 91-710 (was AFSPCMAN or EWR 127-1) Range Safety Requirements and related standards for new and/or modified programs. The engineer must also evaluate all potential program non-compliances to determine if deviations or waivers are allowable, and under what limitations they are allowable. If non-compliances involve public safety, the engineer must justify their existence to and get approval signature from the Delta Commander. If non-compliances involve launch site or launch complex safety, then the engineer must justify their existence to and get approval and required signature. The engineer reviews, critiques, and must ultimately approve the design of all new assigned programs to ensure systems safety design principles have been incorporated in order to protect public safety, launch area safety and launch complex safety. The engineer reviews, critiques and must eventually approve all hazardous and safety critical testing, pre-launch operations and launch operations of all new assigned programs to ensure systems safety design and operations principles have been incorporated in order to provide public safety, launch area safety and launch complex safety. Provides launch operations support as the SEA Console Operator at the MOC or Range User respective LLCC for assigned programs. The engineer provides operations support to other safety representatives as necessary, like the Pad Safety representative in the Launch EOC.

Qualifications: The 0803 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. In addition to the above requirements you can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 4th section titled Professional and Scientific Positions.

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Application Deadline: 2025-12-23