Job description
Overview:
Axient is seeking an individual with experience in vehicle flight risk analysis. The position is located 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 suborbital and orbital aerospace flight vehicles and Balloons, with a focus on sounding rockets. 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 unguided launch vehicles. Analyzes post-flight data to confirm or deduce violations of limits or variations in predicted performance.
- 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.
- Provides technical advice in flight systems safety both within and outside the organization. Serves as a member of internal and external working groups, review panels, and failure investigation boards as required.
- Performs operational flight safety support functions and duties for assigned launches. Prepares and validates flight safety computer graphics displays and real-time computers are operational for launch.
Bachelor’s Degree is preferred, relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree requirements.- Excellent Oral communication and technical writing skills are required.
- Experience developing software code and programs.
- Good mathematics skills.
- Travel is required (less than 10 percent).
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Must have an active and transferrable DoD security clearance with current investigation at the required level. Must be able to maintain the required clearance
Must meet applicable COVID safety requirements and protocols
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