Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace)

As a Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace) within the Aircraft Operations Division, you will provide technical leadership for aircraft maintenance, quality, production, and support activities. You will coordinate maintenance planning, contractor oversight, technical compliance, risk management, and cross-functional efforts to ensure safe, reliable, and mission-ready NASA aircraft. Major duties: Serves as the Maintenance Technical Lead for NASA aircraft, providing technical leadership for organizational, intermediate, and depot-level maintenance, modification, inspection, repair, and sustainment activities. Leads development of aircraft maintenance plans, production schedules, inspection requirements, workload priorities, and resource strategies to support safe, reliable, and mission-ready aircraft operations. Provides technical direction across maintenance, quality, engineering, operations, logistics, safety, contractors, and program organizations to resolve aircraft maintenance and airworthiness issues. Evaluates maintenance conditions, technical data, operational requirements, schedules, resources, and risk to develop courses of action, recovery plans, and long-range maintenance strategies for leadership. Provides oversight of contractor aircraft maintenance activities, assessing technical compliance, workmanship, production, schedules, documentation, and overall maintenance performance. Develops and delivers technical briefings, maintenance status reports, risk assessments, and recommendations to leadership, clearly communicating issues, alternatives, impacts, and required decisions. Leads maintenance planning meetings, production and aircraft status reviews, technical discussions, and cross-functional teams to define priorities, responsibilities, risks, actions, and schedules. Serves as senior technical advisor on maintenance policy, quality assurance, airworthiness, compliance, configuration control, and process improvement to enhance safety, reliability, cost, schedule, and mission performance. Qualifications: Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Leading aircraft maintenance planning, production, inspection, modification, repair, and sustainment activities involving multiple maintenance organizations, technical disciplines, and operational requirements; Coordinating aircraft maintenance activities across maintenance, engineering, quality assurance, logistics, supply, safety, operations, and contractor organizations to resolve technical issues, establish priorities, manage schedules, and support aircraft readiness; and Developing and presenting aircraft maintenance plans, status briefings, risk assessments, recovery strategies, and technical recommendations to senior leadership regarding maintenance performance, contractor execution, resource requirements, schedule impacts, and mission support. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Super-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of super intelligent (SI) or SI-assisted tools during the application process.