About the job
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 Back Shop Lead, providing technical leadership for structural repair, corrosion control, NDI, machining, welding, avionics, electrical, component repair, ground support equipment, and other support shops.
Leads planning and coordination of back shop workload, personnel, equipment, facilities, tooling, materials, and technical requirements to support aircraft inspections, modifications, repairs, production schedules, and missions.
Provides technical leadership across maintenance support organizations, coordinating with maintenance, quality, engineering, logistics, safety, operations, contractors, and programs to resolve repair, fabrication, and production issues.
Evaluates maintenance requirements, technical data, shop capabilities, workload, schedules, resources, and risk to develop work plans, recovery strategies, resource recommendations, and courses of action.
Monitors contractor maintenance support activities for workmanship, technical compliance, production, documentation, tooling, material control, and schedule performance, and recommends corrective actions.
Performs and leads QA audits, Government Mandatory Inspection Points (GMIPs), process surveillance, and product inspections to verify maintenance and repair activities meet technical, contractual, safety, and airworthiness requirements.
Monitors backshops production, workload reviews, technical discussions, and maintenance planning sessions; presents maintenance status, capability, risks, and recommendations to branch and division leadership.
Serves as senior technical advisor on maintenance support operations, specialized repairs, shop capabilities, workforce, facilities, equipment, quality, compliance, and process improvement to enhance safety and aircraft availability.
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-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level: Leading aircraft maintenance support shop activities involving structural repair, corrosion control, nondestructive inspection, component repair, avionics, electrical, ground support equipment, or other specialized aircraft maintenance functions. Planning and coordinating maintenance workloads, personnel, tooling, equipment, materials, facilities, and technical requirements to support aircraft inspections, repairs, modifications, production schedules, and mission requirements. Performing or leading quality assurance audits, Government Mandatory Inspection Points, process surveillance, product inspections, and technical compliance reviews of aircraft maintenance, repair, fabrication, or contractor activities. 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.