Spaceflight Medical Requirements Team Lead (NASA HHPC)

Description

The Human Health and Performance Contract (HHPC) Commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Development Program (CLDP) Health and Medical Technical Authority (HMTA) Support Team Lead provides leadership and technical oversight for the HHPC CLDP HMTA and Human Health and Performance (HHP) Program support team at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

The successful candidate will join a team of integrators and subject matter experts (SMEs) who ensure the NASA Commercial LEO Program is adequately incorporating and implementing HMTA standards from NASA-STD-3001 into vehicle design. The position obtains and maintains broad knowledge of all human health and performance requirements, including: crew health, environmental factors, medical operations, physiology, anthropometry, strength and biomechanics, maintenance and housekeeping, safety, habitability and architecture, information management, and displays and controls.

Human Systems Integration (HSI) strategies are implemented to inform HMTA and efficiently support the CLDP. The CLDP HMTA Support Team Lead ensures processes and data management strategies are developed and implemented to facilitate HSI at the Programmatic and Project level. The CLDP HMTA Support Team Lead will monitor how well HMTA requirements are met, ensure that issues of unmet or under met requirements are documented, communicate the status of these issues to the Commercial LEO Chief Health and Performance officer (CHPO), and prepare materials for communicating awareness or escalating issues as needed. The position will interface with HMTA and HHP management as well as with CLDP personnel. Lessons learned while providing support to CLDP will be leveraged to improve HMTA standards and strategic.

US Citizenship or US Permanent Residency and the ability to successfully obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance are required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and task management for the HHPC CLDP HMTA Support team of Requirement Integrators, Provider Leads, and HSI Lead
• Onboard/train new team members and facilitate ongoing training/development opportunities for the team, including management of training materials
• Coordinate with CLDP HMTA management and HSI Discipline Lead
• Develop and integrate HMTA/HHP programmatic and technical risks
• Provide technical recommendations related to HMTA requirements and HSI best practices
• Provide insight to compliance with HMTA mandatory standards as well as inform HMTA decisions
• Coordinate with CLDP personnel as needed
• Provide technical review and input into CLDP document and design reviews, develop corresponding summary assessments, and follow up on resulting actions
• Provide technical review and input to HHPC Commercial LEO support team products
• Manage the development and implementation of team processes to support CLDP Milestones, team tasks, and actions
• Participate in development of position papers, presentations, and/or requirements interpretations for HMTA issues
• Participate in HMTA meetings, CLDP Boards, Panels, and Working Group meetings, HHP meetings, and internal team meetings; develop and deliver presentations as necessary
• Provide inputs to monthly technical, cost, and schedule reports and estimates
• Ensure compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental plan
• Responsible for compliance with the Quality Assurance Plan, policies, and procedures
• Ability to travel to domestic locations for up to 1-week duration

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in related field (e.g. systems engineering, biomedical engineering, human systems integration, biomedical science, industrial engineering) and 5+ years experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, which includes working with multi-disciplined teams and customers at all levels
• Ability to work independently in a team environment and manage the task assignments for the team
• Individual who collaborates effectively with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including delivering presentations and writing reports
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with NASA Human Spaceflight Programs, human system requirements and verification in human spaceflight vehicle design, and/or with NASA Technical Authority
• Experience working with a commercial program at NASA
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering & Integration and of disciplines within human health and performance
• Previous experience with requirements development and requirements compliance
• Demonstrated experience with human factors activities such as human-in-the-loop tests and task analyses
• Familiarity with industry standards (e.g., NASA-STD-3001) for human space

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.