Team Lead, Science and Technology Office

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Position Description:

ESSCA Team Leads serve as first line supervisors and oversee the Task Orders and personnel that support the requirements defined in the ESSCA Performance Work Statement, plus any additional skills that may be required in support of ASED. They ensure that high performing people are acquired through disciplined human resources processes and are appropriately trained, developed and perform to ASED policy and standards. Team Leads are responsible for the proactive management of assigned Task Orders and personnel to ensure effective accomplishment of MSFC requirements.

The ESSCA Programs & Projects and Advanced Concepts Department (JP) has a Science and Technology Team Lead position available. The existing team has a wide range of skillsets including atmospheric science, data science, science operations management, controls engineering, systems engineering, computer science, materials science, as well as technicians. The main area of support is ST10 (Science Research and Projects Division) or ST20 (Exploration Technologies and Systems Development Division) dependent upon the applicant. The team is comprised of Amentum, teammate, and specialty subcontract personnel supporting on site at MSFC and a few employees supporting remotely. Depending upon the final make-up/size of the team, the Team Lead will lead a 10-20 person team and likely have technical responsibilities. The Team Lead will also be expected to interface with other team leads on the contract to cross-utilize talent on a part-time basis on Science and Technology projects.

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.