Senior EVA Ops Engineer

SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, with more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide. For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2006, the company reported annual revenues of $7.8 billion. SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. SAIC: FROM SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS?

Houston S&MA currently has an opening for a Senior EVA Ops Engineer.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Scope: Perform extravehicular (EVA) operational risk assessments on all assigned flight/training activities through the design cycle to assure that EVA task can be safely performed to ensure mission success. Task includes the following activities: 1. EVA Certification of Flight Readiness endorsement verification.

2. Development of the Operational Risk Assessment Executive Summary Report (ORAESR) product which formally documents operations hazard assessment.

3. Provide real-time Mission Evaluation Room technical expertise in response to CHIT's, inflight investigations (IFI's) and inflight anomalies (IFA's) and anomaly resolution teams.

4. Flight rules and crew procedure assessment approval.

5. Verify and assure flight hardware is operated within design certification limits.

6. Perform safety analyses and assessment of all International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Program (SSP) hazard analysis/reports to ensure all EVA hazards, causes and controls are identified and certified.

7. Perform evaluation of all safety non-compliance reports for acceptable level of risk disposition of proposed controls and work-arounds.

8. Participate in preliminary design review (PDR), critical design reviews (CDR), design certification review (DCR), flight operations review (FOR), integrated products treams (IPT's) safety review panel (SRP) and payload safety review panel (PSRP) to review and assess hardware design packages for safety requirements compliance.

9. Represent NA and XA in all management forums related to EVA.

EDUCATION SKILLS: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or related degree preferred.

REQUIRED SKILLS: Minimum 7 years experience with direct EVA experience within NASA.

1. Knowledge of system and hardware design and operations safety requirements.

2. Familiarity with safety data package.

3. Familiarity of EVA Board and Panel forums.

4. Must be able to qualify for Mission Control Center access.

5. Must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident.

DESIRED SKILLS: Possess knowledge of NASA flight operations. Superior (verbal and written) communication skills. Human factors and/or Safety Engineering is a plus. Mission Evaluation Room (MER) real-time experience. Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) access is a plus.

SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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