Director Engineering & Test Directorate

Director Engineering & Test Directorate
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
John C. Stennis Space Center
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Summary

Serves as Director, Engineering and Test Directorate (E&TD), responsible to the Director, John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC). The Director, E&TD, provides executive management, engineering expertise, and execution of all propulsion programs with engine, system level or component test requirements assigned to SSC, systems design and analysis and modeling to support systems facilities.

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Federal employees - Competitive service
Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales.
Federal employees - Excepted service
Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluation criteria.
Senior executives
Individuals looking for an executive-level job and who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).
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The area of consideration for this position is all groups of qualified individuals within the civil service, Senior Executive Service (SES) reinstatement eligible, and SES Candidate Development Program certified graduates with noncompetitive eligibility. A person is considered to be in the civil service only if occupying a civil service position at the time of application.

Duties

The Director Engineering & Test Directorate:

Manages and administers activities to include establishing objectives, developing short- and long-range plans and programs, setting priorities, and effecting changes in the focus of work to accommodate NASA program objectives. Initiate and/or act to provide the necessary resources for accomplishing the E&TD functions, including the responsibility for preparing and defending all resource requirements for the conduct of assigned programs through the budget cycle. Responsible for evaluation and review of results and impact of assigned programs.
Develops and manages the ground propulsion systems engineering necessary to support technology development and increased systems reliability, components, system level and engine test requirements, including NASA, commercial, Department of Defense, and technology programs, i.e. diagnostic testing and components/systems for next-generation propulsion systems.
Manages the activation, operation and maintenance of propulsion test facilities to ensure safe operations and customer satisfaction.
Establishes requirements for new and/or modified test facilities based on knowledge of new program requirements. Conducts parallel and supporting technology for ongoing programs or conducts advance technology programs to develop systems.
Manages applied science, technology, and rocket propulsion projects and tasks within assigned budgets and schedules to obtain required data and scientific results.
Establishes plans and processes that assure long term viability and sustainability of SSC's propulsion test facilities and critical skills base. Establishes policies relative to programs and projects assigned to the E&TD by SSC, NASA Headquarters, and/or Agency program offices.
Coordinates rocket propulsion activities with other agency Rocket Propulsion Test centers reducing overall costs and improve interagency cooperative activity. Supporting and maintaining partnerships to collaborate on common objectives to enable system solutions of technology.
Manages the development/transfer/deployment of NASA-technologies, processes, product, and facilities, to Federal, State, university, and commercial elements. Maintaining technology development interfaces with other SSC organizations.
Represents the Center's and Agency's position to engineering, public and private working groups, executive and senior NASA and other Federal Government agencies, Congress and staffs, representative of foreign countries and companies and media.

Requirements

Conditions of employment
The individual selected will be required to file an 'Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report' (OGE-278e) within 30 days of appointment and annually from then on.
Initial Senior Executive Service (SES) Career appointee is subject to a one-year probationary period.
Successful completion of a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
Successful completion of pre-employment and random drug testing may be required.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance as required by the position.
Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
Must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the Senior Executive Service (S