Lunar Landing System Fire Safety Integration Lead
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Job Location:
Houston, MS - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 107900 - 195050
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Human Health and Performance Contract supporting NASA at the Johnson Space Center is seeking an experienced Engineer to lead fire safety integration for the Lunar Landing System in Houston Texas.
What Youll Do
You will play a significant role to help Human Landing Systems (HLS) ensure a robust fire safety approach for the use of its flight hardware in an elevated oxygen environment. You will act as the primary integration leader between the HLS Program and HLS Crew Compartment Office test project management/test execution and commercial this integration role you will perform integration and provide integration leadership for fire safety testing serve as an interface to commercial providers collaborate with multiple discipline leads and management and lead resolution of significant technical issues that require integration across multiple disciplines and organizations. You will apply extensive experience in engineering integration testing fire safety communication and leadership to help HLS chart a successful path forward to its certification milestones.
What you Bring
You bring extensive engineering leadership experience across multiple disciplines and experience in fire and material combustion test planning and integration. You use your integration experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals negotiate within HLS and its commercial providers integrate with other Programs to support integrated projects and perform cross-program integration to help HLS Program ensure success of its fire safety efforts. These HLS efforts include material selection/control preventing faults that lead to fires and fire detection and mitigation.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide integration leadership of and high level planning for large-scale fire testing.
- Serve as the primary HLS interface on fire safety matters with the fire testing project manager and project engineers and also as interface to commercial providers regarding test planning.
- Collaborate closely with HLS Chief Engineer in order to provide influence/directional guidance to fire test planning and execution for both internal NASA tests and commercial partner tests.
- Collaborate with fire materials and other expert discipline leads program offices and cross-program stakeholders on engineering and operations aspects of operating in a high oxygen environment.
- Demonstrate strong communication leadership and problem-solving skills with enthusiasm for diving deep into technical fire safety issues and driving effective solutions.
- Lead resolution of significant technical issues and risks requiring integration across multiple technical disciplines and organizations.
- Coordinate with NASA fire safety subject-matter experts and align Moon-to-Mars efforts to enable safe missions in elevated oxygen environments.
- Provide strategic recommendations to program management on balancing fire safety approaches throughout the program lifecycle.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in engineering or relevant technical degree
- Minimum 15 years experience in engineering and integration roles
- Minimum 5 years experience with test planning integration and execution
- Project engineering and/or System Engineering/Integration experience
- Experience in selection and control of materials implementation of safety controls and fire detection/risk mitigation for space vehicle oxygen environment
- Demonstrated experience in engineering integration leadership
- Demonstrated experience showing self-motivation and proactivity in communicating and integrating with others without a lot of hands-on direction
- Demonstrated experience working within a team environment where the team is distributed across multiple NASA centers
- Demonstrated experience in identifying integration concerns and gaps in information and communicating concerns to leadership in a diplomatic manner
- Demonstrated experience performing cross-program integration with multiple people for various purposes in parallel
- Excellent communications skills both verbal and written
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel Word Powerpoint Outlook)
Preferred Experience:
- Preferred experience working with flight hardware across multiple disciplines
- Preferred experience working with NASA commercial partners
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Original Posting:
February 13 2026For U.S. Positions: 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.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $107900.00 - $195050.00The 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.
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