Engineering Assistant - Space Hardware Design and Analysis

We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Assistant - Space Hardware Design and Analysis to join our JETS II contract team at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

If selected you will:

• Report directly to the Group Manager of the Design and Analysis Group.
• Provide support and work directly with the Design and Analysis Group Section Managers.
• Help in the development and deployment of design and analysis training material.
• Update engineering documents.
• Utilize and aid in the compilation of output from the activity reporting tool for the group.
• Coordinate technical design reviews and manage associated tools and documents.
• Review and coordinate the execution of Engineering Service Requests.
• Coordinate Drawing Review and Release approval for fabrication.
• Develop tools and maintain design engineering task automation tools.
• Complete design and drawings for various projects utilizing PTC CREO or Altium Designer.
• Conduct analysis on various designs utilizing electrical and mechanical analysis tools such as Pspice, NASTRAN, Thermal Desktop etc.
• Aid in the maintenance of design configuration documents for a given design.
• Maintain various bills of materials and procurement lists for a given design.
• Perform investigative legwork for design and test anomalies, process escapes, or the like.
• Assist in the development of new or improved tools, processes, workflows, or plans and present new material to the group.
• Review proposals for these new tools.
• Work in a laboratory environment, following standard operating procedures.
• Manage and provide input to Design and Analysis Group Wiki
• Maintain and improve upon Design Manufacturing Database
• Develop and maintain Smartsheet or SharePoint tools for drawing and design review tracking.
• Develop and maintain Smartsheet or SharePoint tools for Resource Allocation.
• Provide logistics and hardware setup for Engineering Development Facility Laboratory area.
• Provide design, analysis and logistics support to various innovations and NASA direct projects.
• Acclimation to various design/development configuration management tools such as git, SVN etc.
• Develop and maintain tools for design/analysis task earned value monitoring.
• Perform other duties as required.