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Overview:

This position encompasses duties and responsibilities for maintaining life support systems aboard the ISS, discovering methodologies for making existing ISS ECLSS more efficient, and for troubleshooting and correcting anomalous phenomena aboard the ISS.

Responsibilities include:

• Working as part of a team of engineers, chemists, and technicians providing support to NASA while maintaining a strong consciousness about safety.

• Supporting International Space Station (ISS) as well as all future exploration missions relating to Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS).

• Working to solve problems as they pertain to biofilm growth and mitigation using background knowledge of sterile environments and microbiology.

• Working with project level and flight system engineers as they define their operational requirements, system performance, configuration, component selection, safety, and quality before and during the testing phases. This consist of:

• Involvement in the payload and project Test Readiness Reviews (TRR).

• Work with NASA Quality to verify testing procedures.

• Assist with test planning and perform media preparation, autoclaving of materials.

• Schedule and coordinate machine shop schedule for parts (scrum)

• Prepare Alconox, antibiotics, light chemicals when needed.

Qualifications:

Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering or other related engineering field is required. Degree from an ABET-accredited university is preferred. Typically, educational requirement is a BS with 0 - 5 years of experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience with bioreactor systems.

• Experience in biology laboratory teams, experience with biofilms preferred.

• Knowledge in microfluidic devices, chemical testing, chemical nutrients, water treatments.

• Knowledge of growth curves, spectroscopy, microscopy

• Experience with Systems Engineering requirements, risk developments, and trade study developments.

• Experience with some statistics/graphing software (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

• Ability to review documents and manuscripts.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in biology laboratory teams.

• Experience with biofilms.

Come join our team on the Engineering Services and Science Capability Augmentation (ESSCA) contract whose work is destined to have a long-range effect on future generations!

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Essential Functions

Work Environment:

Office and Laboratory environment. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%). Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%). Requires travel in the domestic USA (<10%)

Physical Requirements:

Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%). Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (80%). Requires ability to use stairs or elevators for access between floors and multiple buildings at NASA and our facilities (10%).

Equipment and Machines:

Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).

Attendance:

Normal workday 7:30-4:30, Monday thru Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (10%) to meet schedule milestones and to support technical demands of the job. Regular attendance is a necessity, and adequate arrangements for delegating duties during absences are required.

Other Essential Functions:

The ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgment is essential (100%). Grooming and dress must be appropriate for the position and must not impose a safety risk/hazard to the employee or others.

Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

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