Transformation Principal

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The COMET contract provides overall management and implementation of ground systems capabilities, flight hardware processing, and launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. These tasks will support the International Space Station, Ground Systems Development and Operations, and the Space Launch System, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and Launch Services programs.

We're looking for a Transformation Principal for the Space Operations Group's (SOG) Transformation Office. SOG is a single-client Performance Unit (PU) supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering & Test (COMET) contract. The contract is to continue providing ground and launch operations support at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), including support for the International Space Station and the Artemis Program. The contract also includes services to other NASA programs, commercial ventures, and partnerships at KSC. The Transformation Office has responsibility for planning and leading operational excellence (transformation and continuous improvement), strategy, innovation, and collaboration across the organization to achieve the strategic advancement, efficiency, and affordability milestones in the Transformation Roadmap.

The candidate will provide support for, and direction for the following:

Execution

Under the direction of the Chief Transformation Officer, facilitates the development of approaches in assigned areas supporting an operational excellence strategy that will enable the organization and customer to achieve their long-term goals, working with functional owners, conducts an in-depth analysis of target operational processes to identify solutions for improvements achieving the desired end state, facilitates and monitors implementation of new strategies and process improvements.

Leadership and Management

Leads matrixed, cross-functional teams of leadership, technical subject matter experts, process improvement professionals, and change agents overseeing all aspects of transformation and continuous improvement initiatives in assigned projects/focus areas, manages assigned projects within established scope, schedule, and budget while exceeding project management standards, serves as a subject matter expert on operational excellence, providing guidance and support to internal and external stakeholders as needed, train and mentor team members on formally established process improvement methodologies.

Customer / Team Relations

Interface with senior as well as front-line functional organizational leadership; establish transparent, trusting, and strategic relations at all levels of working interface in roles within the organization.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

·      Demonstrate a proven track record of operational process analysis, re-design, and realized benefits across a diverse set of functional capabilities and programs.

·      Make independent judgments required for the planning, prioritizing, and organizing of workstream elements and resource forecasting to support the transformation, solutioning, and execution cycle.

·      Address