Building on The Aerospace Corporation's reputation as a trusted, impartial advisor with integrity and dedication to mission success, the Civil Systems Group (CSG) combines deep technical expertise with market-leading innovation to help our customers solve complex systems engineering and integration challenges. CSG is organized by core customer-facing lines of business to manage and grow programs within NASA, NOAA, and the NNSA, while extending our capabilities to other civilian federal government agencies fully integrated within Aerospace rules, regulations, processes, values and behaviors.

As a member of the Aerospace Civil Systems Group Human Space Flight team, you will be responsible for providing project leadership and portfolio management of science, research and development initiatives supporting NASA programs.

This is a full-time position, 100% onsite at Johnson Space Center.

What You'll Be Doing

• As an Aerospace Human Space Flight Project Leader, you will be required to provide support to NASA program offices as they formulate plans and requirements for science and research activities.
• You will assist with program office matters such as acquisition, cost, and schedule development matters, including consultations on payload integration matters.
• You will serve as a technical specialist and project manager, tasked with requirements development, interface definition, science planning, and integration.
• You will coordinate requirements, technical objectives, interfaces, and standards with domain experts and team members.
• You will be a member of or leading a team and assisting in planning, acquisition, and development projects.
• You will assist in technology planning and development; performing evaluation of project plans and payloads; develop procurement specifications; prepare details of analytical reports, including preliminary findings and recommendations.

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate STEM subject area
• 12 or more years of relevant experience after bachelor's degree
• Experience managing a human space flight project from formulation to execution
• Experience working across many human space flight subject areas to formulate your analysis and recommendation
• Experience working development initiatives associated with emergency response such as gas and fire safety technologies, etc.
• Experience working with NASA, International Partners and commercial providers
• Ability to prepare and present decision packages and change requests in a professional manner is key
• Willing to travel as needed or once per quarter
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• Advanced degree in an appropriate STEM subject area
• Experience and ability to integrate across teams and present findings and recommendations to customers and peers
• Ability to work independently and serve as a leader with vision on your scope of work
• 15 or more years of increasingly responsible and related human spaceflight engineering, project management and customer engagement experience
• Current and active security clearance

Leadership Competencies

Our leadership philosophy is simple: every employee, regardless of level and role, can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace, our commitment is our people. To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders, we want individuals who:

• Operate Strategically
• Lead Change
• Engage with Impact
• Foster Innovation
• Deliver Results

Ways We Reward Our Employees

During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits.

Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type. A few highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
• Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
• Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
• 401(k) Plan - Employees receive a total company-paid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
• Flexible spending accounts
• Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
• Relocation assistance
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
• Education assistance programs
• An inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

We are all unique, from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other-the belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

The Aerospace Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We believe that a diverse workforce creates an environment in which unique ideas are developed and differing perspectives are valued, producing superior customer solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, color, religion,genetic information, marital status, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, physical disability, medical condition, mental disability, or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. If you're an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process, please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by email at ieo.mailbox@aero.org. You can also review Know Your Rights : Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.