Section Manager, Mechanical Design for Space Exploration Applications

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 Section Manager, Mechanical Design for Space Exploration Applications to join the team with our Engineering Division.

The Section Manager, Mechanical Design for Space Exploration Applications will:

• Report directly to the Design and Analysis Group Manager. The position is responsible for the direct management of approximately 40 people involved in various aspects of Mechanical System Development across and in support of several NASA Engineering Divisions.
• Ensure employees in functional areas follow established procedures and generate finished work products under time and budgetary constraints and ensures products yield the expected outcome and established quality levels. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Ensure Project Managers have adequate Mechanical design personnel to accomplish associated tasks.
• Conduct meetings with Project Managers to provide status and obtain feedback.
• Perform routine mechanical design reviews for cost, schedule, risk management, and deliverable adherence.
• Conduct oversight, mentorship and guidance to individual mechanical design task leads.
• Work with mechanical design task leads to track and maintain efficient task performance.
• Maintain an agile list of lessons learned to regularly inform section members.
• Conduct failure investigations on mechanical systems as preferred.
• Maintain active related risk management (technical, cost, and schedule) on all associated mechanical tasks.
• Communicate design status to senior management.
• Conduct periodic section meetings to review personnel work safety.
• Conduct periodic face to face meetings with employees to obtain status, ensure efficiency and provide solutions where needed.
• Review and approve employee time cards, overtime requests and travel.