Position Description Summary:
APT Research is hiring a
Flight Safety Analyst for our SMAS III contract. SMAS III is seeking a highly motivated individual experienced in Guided and Unguided Vehicle Flight Safety Analysis. The position is in the Safety & Mission Assurance Office at Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) within the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). You will serve as a flight safety analyst for both Guided and Unguided launch vehicles. The work involves coordinating, monitoring, maintaining, and using technological processes in support of safety analysis for aerospace and aeronautical programs from definition to launch, and operations.
Responsibilities:- Identifies flight hazards and controls to mitigate flight hazards in aerospace or aeronautical vehicle tests or operations.
- Performs risk studies and prepares risk analysis and flight safety plans which define the safety limits, risk factors, and mission rules for missions/projects/programs.
- Analyzes mission objectives to assure compliance with Agency and GSFC/WFF Range Flight Safety criteria and advises range users on risk factors as they pertain to the mission.
- Adapts analysis methods and approaches to meet the unique requirements of assignments.
- Works with senior analysts to conduct conceptual definition studies and complex detailed analysis to establish preliminary designs and alternatives for a variety of advanced systems on proposed new projects for which no precedents are available.
- Performs theoretical, aerodynamic studies to evaluate various factors (performance, stability, trajectory, etc.) that affect flight safety. Performs casualty expectation and protected area impact probability studies.
- Calculates flight safety limits for Orbital guided launch vehicles. Analyzes post-flight data to confirm or deduce violations of limits or variations in predicted performance.
- Evaluates Failure Modes and Effects and Fault Tree Analysis.
- Integrates various study and analysis results into comprehensive technical briefings and reports to review panels and senior management to ensure that the risks for the mission are understood.
Required Experience/Education:- Education: A high school diploma is required, a Bachelors degree in engineering or mathematics is preferred.
- Experience: A minimum of five plus years experience in both Orbital and Sub-Orbital vehicle risk analysis.
- Excellent Oral communication and technical writing skills are required.
- Excellent mathematics skills.
Preferred Experience:- Experience developing software code and programs. Experience with Trajectory Analysis Optimization software (TAOS) and MATLAB. Experience with Range Safety Risk Analysis Tools, and various other software tools used to perform flight risk analysis. Prior work with government ranges (e.g., NASA Wallops Island, Eastern Range, Western Range).
Security Clearance Requirement:- Must be able to qualify for an unescorted badge (US Citizen required) and be able to pass a background investigation & drug test.
Essential Job Functions:Work Environment:
- Full time, 40+ hours a week when required, including periodic extended shifts, weekends, holidays, and shift changes (1st, 2nd or 3rd as required).
- Work in excess of 40 hours a week (comp time, or OT when approved by CO) will be frequently required.
- Working in non-environmentally controlled areas.
- Working at heights (with fall protection) sometimes required.
- Working in confined spaces sometimes required.
Travel Requirements:
- May Require ability to travel domestically
Physical Requirements:
- Extended periods of standing, stooping, and bending are expected.
- Ability to climb stairs
- Ability to lift >15 lbs.
Other Essential Functions:- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgement
- Work attire must be appropriate for the position and must not impose a safety risk / hazard to the employee or others
