SLS SE&I and Human Exploration Team Lead

Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) is comprised of 10 companies and is located at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL (ranked #11 in Best Places to Live by U.S. News). ASED has been a primary contractor for NASA since 1989 and supports marquee NASA programs, including the Space Launch System, International Space Station, space optics fabrication, earth and space sciences and advanced propulsion system development. As a partner in NASA’s next generation of space exploration, our jobs are literally history in the making.

The ESSCA Programs & Projects and Advanced Concepts Department (JP) has an SLS SE&I and Human Exploration Team Lead position available. The existing team is primarily high performing senior level engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs) supporting the SLS Program Office (XP) and the Human Exploration Development and Operations (HEDO) Office (HP) with specific support to XP02 (Program Operations and Strategic Communication), XP04 (Systems Engineering and Integration, HP10 (Exploration and Transportation Development). The team is comprised of Amentum, teammate and specialty subcontract personnel supporting on site at MSFC, KSC and fully remote from five states. 

Responsibilities include:

·       Lead a strong and high performing team to succeed in delighting the government customer and ASED management.

·       Provide oversight of individual and team technical performance and confirm the technical quality of the work products generated by ASED personnel.

·       Provide technical area supervision to include assigning and balancing team skills to various task orders to meet customer and ASED management expectations.

·       Collaborate with the Department Manager/Deputy Department Manager to assign and develop personnel for subtask efforts and to broaden and develop personnel skills.

·       Conduct task/subtask resource allocation, tracking, and control including forecasting future resource/skills/development needs.

·       Identify and manage cost/technical/schedule risks to ensure accomplishment of Task Order requirements, ESSCA goals and objectives, and the ASED annual business plan.

·       Implement the ESSCA safety program for the team, and lead by example in our safety culture. Engage in and conduct the shared MSFC and ASED safety duties of performing Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) and Personnel Protective Equipment (PPEs) assessments and conducting Safety Meetings and Safety Visits.

·       Perform hiring functions to meet team support requirements: define position requirements; conduct candidate recruiting; lead interviewing and selection and perform on-boarding activities.

·       Develop employee goals and objectives and conduct performance evaluations. Support disciplinary processes with team personnel if needed.

·       Train and develop team personnel thru on-the-job training, strategic technical assignments, peer-to-peer training, classes, etc.

·       Utilize the Individual Development Plan (IDP) tool for employee career development.

·       Utilize the ASED and customer awards and recognition programs to acknowledge team performance and drive team morale.

·       Review and approve employee