Cargo Mission Integration Support Lead

Leidos · Houston, TX · $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 We are seeking a Cargo Mission Integration Support Lead to support NASA's Mission Integration and Operations (MI&O) Office in Houston, Texas. The successful candidate will be part of the Cargo Mission Contract team and will perform mission support to the MI&O office. The Cargo Mission Integration Support Lead will serve as the primary point of contact to the Visiting Vehicle (VV) teams, ISS CAMs, MI&O management, and the ISS Program Office in support of an assigned cargo mission. The selected candidate will be responsible for the planning, organizing, securing, and managing of resources for the successful completion of a mission. Primary Responsibilities: Review the flight-specific schedule milestones and identify and resolve issues or challenges to meeting milestones by communicating with the NASA and contractor teams. Establish cargo priorities and evaluate hardware trades to ensure vehicle manifesting and integration is completed to meet the VV mission and increment objectives to support on-orbit crew operations. Identify Points of Contact with hardware providers, VV Integration Managers, and ISS CAMs and subsystem managers to negotiate and manage the integration mission. Serve as NASA's primary POC to the VV team to ensure deliveries and the manifest complement are supportive of the launch schedule. Perform Cargo Certification of Flight Readiness for the ISS VV mission. Identify off-nominal requirements, requests, and problems pertaining to the VV mission and hardware that constitutes the mission manifest. Communicate issues and challenges to MI&O and ISS management and coordinate with the VV Office to resolve issues with the VV team. Manage the flight-specific schedule and coordinate milestones with the MI&O support contractors. Communicate with resources across the various contractor CMC teams to ensure that milestones, requirements, and product deliveries are met. Identify issues and off-nominal requests pertaining to hardware requirements and delivery to CMC and to the Next Level Integrator. Communicate flight status as needed, including weekly Integrated Product Team, MIOCB, TICB, SSPCB meetings. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree and 5 years relevant experience, including project management experience. Experience with NASA ISS program. Organized, proactive, and communicates clearly with the ability to present clearly and concisely to program-level boards. Computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, Word). Experience with Microsoft Project skills is desired. Additional Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident due to the length of investigation for non-U.S. persons. Pay Range: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00