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Grow With Us Your growth matters to usthats why we offer a variety of ways for you to develop your career. With professional and leadership development opportunities like Team Lead Academy, education reimbursement, mentoring, and company sponsored networking events, you can take control of your own career path on your own terms with a company that believes in you. A Place Where You Belong At the Amentum Space Exploration Division, people are at the heart of our business. We reflect a diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. We expect our people, clients, and partners to treat one another with dignity and respect. This means promoting inclusion, celebrating diversity, and appreciating the differences we all bring to our workplace. Support Your Well-Being Our comprehensive benefits package includes wellness programs, 11 paid holidays, parental leave, paid time off, employee perks and much more. With these benefits, plus the option for flexible schedules and possible remote a few days a week (depending on customer requirements) well support you as you pursue a balanced, fulfilling lifeat work and at home. Position Description: This position will provide technical leadership as well as systems engineering and integration support to the Systems Planning and Technical Leadership Branch (EV71) in support of the Spacecraft Payload Integration & Evolution (SPIE) Lead Systems Engineer (LSE) team. Responsibilities: Coordinate and interface with SPIE project team personnel, MSFC engineering organizations (Branches, Divisions, and Departments), personnel at other NASA Centers and Agencies, technical/discipline leads, SPIE Prime Contractors, and other stakeholder project teams and personnel. Participate in reviews, meetings, TIMs, technical performance meetings, teleconferences, working groups, and trade studies. Employ proven systems engineering and project management processes and techniques. Provide support and expertise to trade studies, assessments, and independent analyses to enable the development of recommendations in areas such as systems engineering processes, systems engineering and technical and management questions, issues, risks affecting the performance and management processes. Perform systems engineering assessments of technical documentation including Change Requests (CRs), Requirements Change Notices (RCN), LCC Change Notices (LCN), Work Authorization Documents (WAD), and Deviation Approval Requests (DAR). Coordinate the assignments of technical documentation reviews/assessments to the SPIE LSE team. Coordinate and track Data Exchange (DEx) agreements between the SPIE Element and SLS/SLS contractors. Provide support associated with programmatic processes and documentation, process definition, and other systems engineering management and planning functions. Provide technical review of artifacts and/or support the setup and administration for milestone reviews. Lead and/or facilitate complex tasks, including task teams, data agreements, change package reviews, and trade studies as well as independently manage subtasks with minimum government oversight. Qualifications: A degree in aerospace, mechanical, industrial, or systems engineering or a related field from an accredited university is required. Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a BS with at least 10 years of experience or a masters degree with at least 8 years of experience. Experience: Leading and applying systems engineering processes and principals. Experience developing and/or documenting/updating requirements, processes, and/or procedures associated with aerospace flight and ground hardware design, development, production, test, verification, evaluation, integration, and/or operations. Ability to interface and collaborate with all levels of engineering and project management with the ability to lead and influence for consensus. Ability to use program planning tools and management databases. Experience in systems integration and interface definition in hardware design, development, test, integration, and/or operations. Demonstrated experience and skills negotiating and collaborating to resolve complex technical problems. Demonstrated skill breaking down complex problems or issues into manageable pieces. Excellent written and oral technical communication skills must be able to clearly define and describe a technical subject to peers across various engineering disciplines. Demonstrated experience and skills developing and delivering project-level briefings. Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams & Outlook). Desired: An understanding and knowledge of the current SLS program. A working understanding of the SPIE interfaces and sub-elements. Experience supporting Space Shuttle, International Space Station (ISS), Commercial Crew, or Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) programs. Experience reading and working with engineering drawings, interface control documents, configuration documents, and/or other technical documentation. Experience in launch vehicle technical project management or project planning. Familiarity with NASA Systems Engineering policies and procedures related to technical management. Star ID will be required to obtain access to MSFC. Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language. We are a background screening, drug-free workplace. ASED offers a partnership in which you can grow personally and professionally within a framework of strong leadership, competitive compensation, and rewarding career paths. 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