Job Details

The Pressure Systems Specialist will support various roles in the facility including Maintenance operations, Operations Technicians, Loose Equipment & Property Management. The Pressure Systems Specialist will provide the operations and maintenance tasking to operate and maintain the various space vehicles and stand-alone mockups used for Astronaut crew and Instructor team training. The specialist will join the Operations team within a dynamic team environment and will be responsible for working with the NASA customers, external vendors, Astronaut Crew Instructor teams, Mockup Managers, users, and commercial and international partners to capture and negotiate requirements and operation concepts and then drive those change requests through the development and operation lifecycle of the mockups.

Primary Responsibilities:
Certify/Train on specific SVMF Operating equipment to lead Pressurized Suited operation activities:

• Environmental Control Systems (ECS)
• Partial Gravity System (PGS)
• Test Director (TD)

Maintain and perform all Facility Safety training standards.
Provide maintenance support of all pressure systems including Breathing Air Control Carts (BACCs) and the PGS.
Provide general maintenance support to other mockups and systems in the facility.
Work with and maintain standards set by the NASA Pressure Systems Management office (PSMO) and NASA Safety requirements.
Provide documentation support to keep all maintenance and operations support documents relevant and up to date.
Other tasking as required.

Education & Experience:
Requires associate's degree or BS in Computer Science, or other technical or engineering-based degree and appropriate certifications.

5 – 10 years of related experience

Required Skills:

• Experience in Electronic hardware maintenance, modification, and repair.
• Experience working with training simulators, preferably using pressure systems.
• Experience using pressure regulators, cylinders, relief valves, and certified breathing air standards.
• Fabrication skills with engineering instructions and sometimes without.
• Ability to operate tools both power and hand tools.
• The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to professionally represent the MSOC organization.
• Highly motivated individual willing to learn and apply new concepts, tools, hardware and software.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills focusing on technical content.
• Strong personal initiative.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting.
• Must have a creative mindset that can be applied to troubleshooting and developing innovative solutions to technical problems.
• Leadership skills. Proven ability to provide technical coordination to a small team of engineers/specialists to meet project goals.

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of human spaceflight requirements.
• Knowledge of the NASA JSC MCC, Mission Training Center, and SVMF subsystems.
• Knowledge of IT systems (hardware, software, networks) and applications.
• Understanding of IT Security policies.
• Understanding network and system architectures and means of detecting IT security issues during system development and integration.
• Familiarity with system Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RMA) concepts and implementations.
• Familiarity with the hardware development, lifecycle and agile development practices, including the use of Agility.
• Experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITIL workflow toolset.
• Experience with the use of Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Experience with the use of Microsoft SharePoint
• Certified forklift, crane, manlift operator and trained in fall protection safety or the ability to be trained for these activities.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience directly working with Pressure Systems (hydraulics / pneumatics).