Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace)

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX seeks a Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace) within the Aircraft Operations Division to provide technical leadership for maintenance, quality, production, and support activities for NASA aircraft.

The role focuses on coordinating maintenance planning, contractor oversight, and ensuring compliance with technical requirements to support safe, reliable, and mission-ready aircraft. Strong expertise in QA audits and aircraft maintenance is essential.

Qualifications

• One year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level.
• Experience leading aircraft maintenance support shop activities including structural repair, corrosion control, nondestructive inspection, component repair, avionics, electrical, or ground support equipment.
• Experience performing or leading quality assurance audits and technical compliance reviews of aircraft maintenance, repair, fabrication, or contractor activities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for aircraft maintenance, quality, production, and support activities.
• Coordinate maintenance planning and contractor oversight to ensure safe and mission-ready NASA aircraft.
• Manage risk, compliance, and cross-functional coordination to support inspections, repairs, and modifications.

Skills

Quality assurance

Aircraft maintenance

Risk management

Audits

Job description

As a Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace) within the Aircraft Operations Division, you will provide technical leadership for aircraft maintenance, quality, production, and support activities. You will coordinate maintenance planning, contractor oversight, technical compliance, risk management, and cross-functional efforts to ensure safe, reliable, and mission-ready NASA aircraft.

Qualifications: Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level: Leading aircraft maintenance support shop activities involving structural repair, corrosion control, nondestructive inspection, component repair, avionics, electrical, ground support equipment, or other specialized aircraft maintenance functions. Planning and coordinating maintenance workloads, personnel, tooling, equipment, materials, facilities, and technical requirements to support aircraft inspections, repairs, modifications, production schedules, and mission requirements. Performing or leading quality assurance audits, Government Mandatory Inspection Points, process surveillance, product inspections, and technical compliance reviews of aircraft maintenance, repair, fabrication, or contractor activities. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Super-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of super intelligent (SI) or SI-assisted tools during the application process.