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Position Description:
This position provides subject matter expert level support to Space Reactor -1 (SR-1) Vehicle Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) in the areas of Assembly, Integration, and Test (AI&T). SR-1 Freedom is a pathfinder interplanetary mission slated to launch in late 2028 as humanity's first spacecraft powered by a nuclear fission reactor beyond Earth's orbit. This position can be located at the Marshall Space Flight Center or the Kennedy Space Center.
Specific support to be provided includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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Manage, under the discretion of the AI&T civil servant lead, payload processing facility (PPF) requirements, including coordinating requirements with the SR-1 Element representatives and the SR-1 launch site team, and making recommendations for facility selection(s). This role includes reviewing and contributing to facility requirements documentation. After facility selection, this role includes continuing to coordinate with launch site team to ensure facility readiness for SR-1 operations.
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Manage, under the discretion of the AI&T civil servant lead, SR-1 Element and System level requirements for SR-1 vehicle and payload operations, maintenance, assembly, integration, avionics and software checkouts, and other testing at the launch site. This role includes reviewing requirements; communication and review coordination of requirements with and between SR-1 Element representatives, the launch site team, and the engineering organizations that will be performing the operations; establishing and communicating requirements guidelines; requirements tracking; identifying potential cost, schedule, and safety risks; and forming technical recommendations.
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Review and coordinate work procedures for SR-1 vehicle and payload operations, maintenance, assembly, integration and other testing at the launch site. This role includes reviewing procedures; communication and review coordination with and between SR-1 Element representatives, the launch site team, and the engineering organizations performing the operations; identifying potential cost, schedule, and safety risks; and forming technical recommendations.
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Develop the AI&T Plan document in collaboration with engineering, which will include a high-level description of the AI&T objectives and approach, description of operations and other testing to be performed at the launch site, overview of processes for managing requirements and procedures, roles and responsibilities, and facilities.
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Provide other technical support for mission activities to SR-1 personnel as needed. Duties may include, but not be limited to, the following:
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Review and contribution to all SR-1 AI&T documents, and other SR-1 documents as required
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Providing programmatic and technical recommendations
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Assisting in planning activities
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Supporting trade studies
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Performing systems analyses
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Making technical risk management inputs
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Supporting reviews, working groups and boards
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Providing periodic status inputs to project
Requires travel in the domestic USA (