Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace)

Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace)
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
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As a Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace) within the Aircraft Operations Division, you will provide technical leadership for aircraft maintenance, quality, production, and support activities. You will coordinate maintenance planning, contractor oversight, technical compliance, risk management, and cross-functional efforts to ensure safe, reliable, and mission-ready NASA aircraft.

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Current Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center federal employees serving on a career, career-conditional, VRA, Schedule A for individuals with disabilities, or NASA term appointment that provides eligibility to convert to a permanent appointment or a current NASA employee on a long-term rotational assignment to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center or the NASA Safety Center.

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Serves as Back Shop Lead, providing technical leadership for structural repair, corrosion control, NDI, machining, welding, avionics, electrical, component repair, ground support equipment, and other support shops.
Leads planning and coordination of back shop workload, personnel, equipment, facilities, tooling, materials, and technical requirements to support aircraft inspections, modifications, repairs, production schedules, and missions.
Provides technical leadership across maintenance support organizations, coordinating with maintenance, quality, engineering, logistics, safety, operations, contractors, and programs to resolve repair, fabrication, and production issues.
Evaluates maintenance requirements, technical data, shop capabilities, workload, schedules, resources, and risk to develop work plans, recovery strategies, resource recommendations, and courses of action.
Monitors contractor maintenance support activities for workmanship, technical compliance, production, documentation, tooling, material control, and schedule performance, and recommends corrective actions.
Performs and leads QA audits, Government Mandatory Inspection Points (GMIPs), process surveillance, and product inspections to verify maintenance and repair activities meet technical, contractual, safety, and airworthiness requirements.
Monitors backshops production, workload reviews, technical discussions, and maintenance planning sessions; presents maintenance status, capability, risks, and recommendations to branch and division leadership.
Serves as senior technical advisor on maintenance support operations, specialized repairs, shop capabilities, workforce, facilities, equipment, quality, compliance, and process improvement to enhance safety and aircraft availability.
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Conditions of employment
This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
This position may require a one-year probationary period. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11. **See Additional Information section**
Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Position subject to pre-employment background investigation or higher-level clearance. Investigation/Clearance may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
Financial Disclosure, Drug Testing, and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

To qualify for GS-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level:

Leading aircraft maintenance support shop activities involving structural repair, corrosion control, nondestructive inspection, component repair, avionics, electrical, ground support equipment, or other specialized aircraft maintenance functions.
Planning and coordinating maintenance workloads, personnel, tooling, equipment, materials, facilities, and technical requirements to support aircraft inspections, repairs, modifications, production schedules, and mission requirements.
Performing or leading quality assurance audits, Government Mandatory Inspection Points, process surveillance, product inspections, and technical compliance reviews of aircraft maintenance, repair, fabrication, or contractor activities.

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