Houston, TX, USA | Full Time

Job Description: System Safety Supervisor

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. Jacobs is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a System Safety Supervisor to join our team with Teammate company, Mb Solutions.

As a System Safety Supervisor you will:

Provide direct supervision of the Systems Safety Group, providing oversight, assistance, performance evaluations and development of section employees

Develop and provide resource estimates for systems safety support as requested by projects and a forecast of group resource needs

Represent Jacobs and the Safety & Mission Assurance Office to customers, flight safety panels and Program Chief Engineers

Ensure the availability of required resource skills, including flight safety professionals and subject matter experts

Perform direct project systems safety engineering tasking approximately 50% of the time

Perform other duties as required

Qualifications

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at a level which this position has been advertised.

BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and five (5) years of related engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and four (4) years of related engineering experience, or Ph.D. from an accredited engineering school and zero (0) years of related experience.

Demonstrated leadership skills with the proven ability to manage projects and people.

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to coordinate support for a wide range of technical disciplines.

Requires the ability to manage a complex systems safety program with multiple customers.

Requisition Preferences:

BS degree in engineering from an accredited college or university and ten (10) years of direct engineering experience or a MS degree and eight (8) years of direct engineering experience or a Ph.D. degree and nine (9) years of direct engineering experience.

MS degree in area of technical specialty is preferred

Experience in full flight hardware life-cycle as a systems engineer

Experience with JSC Systems Safety processes for GFE Safety Review and Payload Safety Review Panels is highly desired

Working knowledge of systems safety applications for avionics, electrical power distribution and control, battery systems, computer-based control systems, pressure systems, propulsion systems, materials, stress, and fracture control disciplines

Experience as a practical "hands on" engineer with a general understanding of a wide range of technical disciplines such as structures, pressure systems, propulsion systems, electrical systems, data systems (preferably digital), mechanical systems, batteries, and integrated systems

Experience in the review and evaluation of mechanical and pressure systems designs

Knowledgeable of MIL-STD-1522A Standard General Requirements for Safe Design and Operation of Pressurized Missile and Space Systems

Experience or familiarity with spaceflight hardware safety processes

Understanding of the following aerospace pressure systems items:

Pressure systems materials, aluminum, stainless steel, titanium and rationale for application.

Pressure lines and @types of welded and threaded fittings, different @types of seals, polymers vs metallic, and advantages and disadvantages of single seal vs redundant seals.

Different @types of valves: manual, solenoid, spring loaded fail-safe closed mono-stable, normally open, normally closed, back-relieving vs bi-stable valves and rational for use.

The significance of over pressure protection devices such as relief valves, burst disks, fail safe such as Leak Before Burst (LBB), autonomous required vs manual and/or computer controlled.

Light, flight-weight pressure vessels, Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV) vs metallic, what the major differences between these and American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME) code tanks, why one or the other is used, advantages and disadvantages

Mb Solutions, Inc.

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