Commercial Crew Program Project Engineer

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!     

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. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Crew Program Project Engineer to join the team with HX5, a teammate company.

​Our long-term client relationship with NASA, has led to a need for a Project Engineer for the development of flight hardware for the Commercial Crew Program Projects. 

The Commercial Crew Program Project Engineer will: 

With guidance from the CCP Suit System Manager (SM), maintain a responsive and productive working relationship with Commercial Crew provider and any vendor or subcontractors.

• Shall provide statuses, schedule, and forward work information to ensure all necessary CCP Suit team objectives and milestones are being accomplished on time and within program/project resources.
• Support CCP Suit SM in the managing of the project’s Technical, Schedule, Cost and Risk as needed
• Lead/Support Commercial Crew Provider hardware team(s) working meetings, requirement verification activities (i.e. demonstrations, testing’s, etc.) and travel as needed for On Job Training (OJT) events.
• Project Engineer will support SSM who leads and provide weekly statuses to Commercial Crew Program (CCP) program customer, working actions given by program (as needed) and presenting at program forums for items such as hardware certification, project status, and or risks.
• Support SM in integration and discussions with external orgs including Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), Crew Office (CB), Engineering Directorate (EA) and Crew Training representatives.
• Keep relevant CCP stakeholders abreast of project development and operational status.
• Serve as a key stakeholder for all CCP program milestones such as verification activities, hardware qualification events, launch preparations activities such as performing Pre Flight Readiness Review (FRR) tasks, Mission Support training (i.e. console simulation support at JSC Mission Control Center), and provide in person launch operations support.
• Traveling to support commercial provider meetings, Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), development efforts, qualification (certification) testing, failure investigations or technical issues, crew training activities and other critical project tasks are all responsibilities for this position.
• Working with CCP team to ensure project requirements are achieved.
• Work in a team environment and report to project management to provide status on progress and issues related to support of the CCP NASA customer.
• Perform other duties as requ