In anticipation of NASA awarding the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) contract, Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is seeking an Aerospace / Mechanical Engineer - Crew Module Engineer- Program Integration Office- Human Lander System (HLS) to serve as an interface between Dynetics and its major sub-contractor accountable for the development of the Dynetics HLS (DHLS) Crew Module. The successful candidate will serve as a member of a small liaison support office from Dynetics and provide for the exchange of data in relation to the design, development, and delivery of the Crew Module to be performed by the sub-contractor. The CM Liaison Engineer will advocate the provision of continuity, consistency, and clear communications of data and information needed by the sub-contractor in its efforts to design, develop, and manufacture the Crew Module. The CM Liaison Engineer will boost and assist the subcontractor in its efforts and will also monitor, assess, and evaluate the overall performance of the sub-contractor for technical, schedule, and cost performance. The successful candidate will promote the assessment and documentation of quarterly sub-contract evaluations, and recommendations regarding contract performance indicators to the DHLS Program Manager (PM).

Tasks and objectives of this role include:

• Sponsor the CM Liaison Office lead engineer in providing regular communication with the subcontractor Chief Engineer and Chief Systems Engineer and other technical experts throughout the design team with an emphasis on developing a positive working relationship with all team members.
• Regularly attend all meetings between Dynetics and the subcontractor to monitor technical information exchange.
• Monitor sub-contractor performance activity in relation to all significant design and development milestones (SRR, PDR, CDR, FRR, ORR, etc.)
• Monitor sub-contractor performance during all AI&T CM, Active- ActiveDocking Adapter (AADA) and docking mechanism integration activities.
• Monitor sub-contractor performance for integration activities and end-to-end testing at the Payload Processing Facility (PPF).
• Develop a knowledge of all sub-systems within the Crew Module and the interface needs with the ALPACA structure and sub-systems.
• Promotes the development of subcontract evaluations and provide results summary recommendations to the DHLS PM.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidates will possess a bachelor’s or graduate degree with a major in either a) Engineering from an institute that has ABET accredited engineering programs or b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or other field of physical science.
• Candidates will have at least 2+ years of relevant work history in a related aerospace area, to include systems level knowledge of space craft technical disciplines for human spaceflight.
• This past work should include technical knowledge of spacecraft design and operations, as well as some background involving the integration of design and development of integrated spacecraft systems.
• Candidates will have history communicating within a team environment.
• Candidates will be able to work and guide in a joint environment with multi-disciplinary engineering and design teams.

Candidates will be residents of the Huntsville AL. area or be willing to relocate to this area.

Other Qualifications

Security Requirements

Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance.