Chief of Staff jobs in Columbus, OH

Alcyon Technical Services JV, LLC (ATS) is the prime contractor for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Systems Engineering Advanced Services (SEAS) contract. ATS has an immediate need for a Sr. Staff Engineer – Chief with at least 30 years of space mission systems engineering experience to support an on-going NASA space mission project.

• The Chief Senior Staff Engineer is a world-renowned expect in his/her primary field of expertise.
• His/her duties include: support of complex and/or technologically challenging tasks including the leadership in generating the Task Plan and Work Control Plan, providing guidance during the task implementation, conducting technology assessments and making recommendations for technology insertions, making trade study assessments, and recommendations, supporting CDR and PDR, and reviewing deliverables, providing technical consultation advice to Task Managers regarding design issues, development and test approaches, and test result assessments, leading teams established by the Program Manager to conduct investigations of programmatic or task-level problems and to make recommendations for recovery plans; and providing recommendations regarding Mission Assurance Program Implementation considerations.
• Provides world-renowned expertise in space and/or ground hardware and/or software systems analysis, design, development, integration, test, validation, and orbital operations.

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, mathematics, or computer science or physics from an accredited institution is required. 
• Thirty (30) years of space/ground system design and development experience including at least fifteen (15) years of experience analyzing system and performance requirements.
• Individual should have an extensive knowledge in the development and/or implementation of space/ground hardware and/or software systems.
• Strong background in requirements management, interface requirements, requirements validation, verification, top-level verification planning, integration and test.
• Experience in end to end mission requirements traceability and validation.
• Experience with NASA policies and procedures regarding program/project management lifecycles and systems engineering.
• Experience with database tools, requirements management and system architecture tools.
• Experience with the NASA system requirements tools such as DOORS
• Experience with testing methodologies and test planning activities
• Experience with NASA Risk Management Guidelines and Processes and Tools   
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) software tools.
• Currently hold or ability to obtain a NASA Goddard badge (NACI background investigation) is required.