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, 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 the Maintenance Technical Lead for NASA aircraft, providing technical leadership for organizational, intermediate, and depot-level maintenance, modification, inspection, repair, and sustainment activities.
Leads development of aircraft maintenance plans, production schedules, inspection requirements, workload priorities, and resource strategies to support safe, reliable, and mission-ready aircraft operations.
Provides technical direction across maintenance, quality, engineering, operations, logistics, safety, contractors, and program organizations to resolve aircraft maintenance and airworthiness issues.
Evaluates maintenance conditions, technical data, operational requirements, schedules, resources, and risk to develop courses of action, recovery plans, and long-range maintenance strategies for leadership.
Provides oversight of contractor aircraft maintenance activities, assessing technical compliance, workmanship, production, schedules, documentation, and overall maintenance performance.
Develops and delivers technical briefings, maintenance status reports, risk assessments, and recommendations to leadership, clearly communicating issues, alternatives, impacts, and required decisions.
Leads maintenance planning meetings, production and aircraft status reviews, technical discussions, and cross-functional teams to define priorities, responsibilities, risks, actions, and schedules.
Serves as senior technical advisor on maintenance policy, quality assurance, airworthiness, compliance, configuration control, and process improvement to enhance safety, reliability, cost, schedule, and mission performance.
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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-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level:

Leading aircraft maintenance planning, production, inspection, modification, repair, and sustainment activities involving multiple maintenance organizations, technical disciplines, and operational requirements;
Coordinating aircraft maintenance activities across maintenance, engineering, quality assurance, logistics, supply, safety, operations, and contractor organizations to resolve technical issues, establish priorities, manage schedules, and support aircraft readiness; and
Developing and presenting aircraft maintenance plans, status briefings, risk assessments, recovery strategies, and technical recommendations to senior leadership regarding maintenance performance, contractor execution, resource requirements, schedule impacts, and mission support.

Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copie