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Safety Engineer

Headquarters, NASA

Job Location:

Huntsville, AL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 147945 - 147945

Posted: 6 October 2026 (4 days ago)

Application Deadline: 7 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Summary

As a Safety Engineer you will support the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and provide institutional safety program expertise across the Agency. You will also be responsible for the development of policy and program elements ensuring Agency compliance with Federal Safety Program requirements and closely related industry standards.

Duties

Provide industrial/infrastructure safety program guidance and oversight to Centers Enterprise Organizations and Programs across the Agency including commercial partners and Federal tenants.
Develop and benchmark policy for Agency and partner operations related to industrial/infrastructure safety.
Make observations and recommendations to senior managers to drive changes in safety and health policy processes risk mitigation strategies and collaborative work initiatives.
Prioritize work and integrate overlapping tasks performed by Institutional Safety Management Office staff contract staff Center experts and Agency working groups to meet strategic goals of the Institutional Safety Program.
Develop elements of Agency strategy supporting safety engineering safety and operational readiness certification inspection and design review processes and industrial safety surveillance.
Develop an integrated strategy to promote coordinated tasks and initiatives of the Occupational Safety Industrial/Infrastructure Safety and Process Safety program areas.
Manage development of new tools processes metrics assessments training and communications designed to help improve the Institutional Safety Program.
Design and execute audit and assessment programs for industrial and infrastructure safety including peer reviews of building fire electrical lifting device and construction safety compliance.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

Current Federal employees must meet qualifications time in grade and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Position subject to pre-employment background investigation or higher-level clearance. Investigation/Clearance may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
Financial Disclosure Drug Testing and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.

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-15 you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level:

Managing occupational health and safety compliance programs for large scale corporate or industrial environments.
Identifying and mitigating operational hazards and employee exposures for industrial maintenance or construction type activities as part of a program facility or task analysis.
Performing inspections evaluations audits or studies of worker exposure to hazards in multi-employer workplace/worksite setting.

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.

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Education

Basic Requirement:
You must have successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelors or higher degree that included a major in engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics heat transfer soil mechanics or electronics

OR

Have a combination of education and experience: college-level education training and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering and (2) a good understanding both theoretical and practical of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI) Engineer in Training (EIT) or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State the District of Columbia Guam or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard those individuals who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g. State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example an individual who attains registration through a State Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional.
Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements.
Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in an appropriate scientific field e.g. engineering technology physics chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology or geology may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering provided you have had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

U.S. degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations. For a list of schools that meet this criteria go to you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information visit: degrees must have been received in the year of or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Additional information

Additional selections may be made for similar positions across NASA within the local commuting area(s) of the location(s) identified in this announcement. By applying you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) within NASA. CTAP/ICTAP will be cleared for any additional selection from this announcement.

If you are applying for a GS-12 or higher level and are a current federal employee you must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible for this position. To be eligible you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in a position no more than 1 grade lower than the advertised position. (Please submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title series and grade. If your eligibility for both merit promotion and/or time-in-grade cannot be determined your application will be rated ineligible.)
Note: Time-in-grade requirements also apply to applicants who have held a non-temporary competitive service GS position in the past year.

If you have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) you must:

Indicate your eligibility when applying for a position. The questionnaire asks you to identify your ICTAP/CTAP eligibility.
Be well qualified for this position to receive consideration. Candidates rated in the Best Qualified category are considered well-qualified. Please see How You Will Be Evaluated for more information.
Submit proof that you meet the requirements for CTAP/ICTAP as indicated in Required Documents

For additional information about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility click here - https:// NASA term employees who have term conversion eligibility (Term Appointments NASA) under the NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 will be referred and considered equally with other NASA permanent employees under internal competitive placement procedures.

Per Executive Order 14343 this position is not part of a bargaining unit.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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