Spaceflight Hardware Project Manager
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Intro: "The Spaceflight Hardware Project Manager will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058). Are you passionate about human space exploration and avionics development? Join our diverse, mission‑driven team! We need your creativity, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to help build systems that enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth. Join us as we tackle exciting challenges for NASA's deep‑space missions. Amentum is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider, working together with centers across the United States." That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section. - RESPONSIBILITIES: long list. - REQUIRED: list of requirements. - DESIRED: prior experience managing and leading a team. - WORK LOCATION: schedule info: "This position is located onsite and offers a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off; some travel may be required. Schedules are subject to change based on the requirements of the position and/or customer needs." - BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS REQUIRED: etc. Might be considered part of Requirements? But it's boilerplate? It's about clearance etc. Might be considered requirement but it's generic. However we need to preserve substantive info; but we should remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. Background investigations and drug screening maybe considered boilerplate? Not sure. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." Background investigations and drug screening are not exactly EEO but could be considered legal boilerplate. Might be removed. However they are specific to Bastion (the employer). Might be considered part of requirements? The instruction says remove legal boilerplate. I'd lean to remove those sections (Background Investigations Required, Drug and Alcohol Screening Required, Standard Bastion Requirements, About Bastion, Workplace Excellence, etc.) as they are generic company info. Keep only substantive role-specific content: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including required qualifications), Desired (maybe as Skills?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have schedule info in WORK LOCATION: 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off; some travel may be required. That's schedule. Benefits: "BASTION BENEFITS: Bastion offers a wide range of benefits for their full-time employees; medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability benefits, life insurance, retirement 401k, vacation, sick pay, holidays, flexible work schedules (when available), along with many other options. We also support career advancement through professional training and development." That's benefits. Pay: Not mentioned. So we should NOT include Pay section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required and Desired?), Skills (maybe desired?), Benefits, Schedule. We need to decide headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Schedule. We must not create empty sections. Now extract content. About the role: The introductory paragraph(s) before RESPONSIBILITIES. Let's capture: "The Spaceflight Hardware Project Manager will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058). Are you passionate about human space exploration and avionics development? Join our diverse, mission‑driven team! We need your creativity, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to help build systems that enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth. Join us as we tackle exciting challenges for NASA's deep‑space missions. Amentum is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider, working together with centers across the United States." That's about the role. Responsibilities: list from RESPONSIBILITIES: many bullet points. Need to convert each sentence into
headings and - for lists,
for prose.
We need to decide which content is prose vs list.
About the role: could be a
containing the paragraph(s).
Responsibilities: list.
Requirements: list.
Skills: maybe list (desired).
Benefits: list (maybe bullet list of benefits). Could be a
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Schedule: maybe a (since it's a short statement).
Now ensure we don't include boilerplate like "About Bastion", "Workplace Excellence", etc.
Now produce HTML.
Let's craft.
About the role
The Spaceflight Hardware Project Manager will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058). Are you passionate about human space exploration and avionics development? Join our diverse, mission‑driven team! We need your creativity, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to help build systems that enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth. Join us as we tackle exciting challenges for NASA's deep‑space missions. Amentum is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider, working together with centers across the United States.
Responsibilities
- Work with internal project and matrix support to build a successful team for the development, manufacturing, testing, certification, and sustaining engineering of major government furnished equipment end items for engineering spaceflight hardware projects.
- Point contact and organizer of bases of estimate process for the flight hardware.
- Develop and maintain financial reports that monitor cost performance against established plans.
- Oversee and develop procedures, work instructions and process flow.
- Review and analyze financial data to ensure accuracy of reporting.
- Interface frequently with inter-organizational disciplines, NASA managers, and operational customers to deliver up to date project performance.
- Plan and execute hardware troubleshooting to investigate mechanical and electrical failures within flight hardware or test support hardware.
- Provide strategic and logistic plans for execution of new project development, sustaining engineering, and resupply activities related to spaceflight hardware and software.
- Advocate on behalf of the project in leading activities related to the development, sustaining, resupply, operation, and troubleshooting of on-orbit anomalies.
- Represent the project at all the flight hardware development life cycle meetings.
- Coordinate and support flight hardware products and systems development phases, through design, procurement, fabrication, test, data analysis, certification, and flight/mission delivery.
- Develop and present project status at customer Technical, Cost, Schedule, and Risk (TCSR) reviews.
- Create a very positive environment with the team that unites team members.
- Perform job functions based on pre-established guidelines or instructions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status required due to sensitivity of customer related information.
- Experience in the space industry or Department of Defense/Department of War.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years of recent and related work experience.
- Prior experience with financial reporting, including budgeting, forecasting and cost estimating.
- Experience with NASA/JSC flight hardware processing for spaceflight.
- Experience with NASA/JSC Class I flight hardware process and certification.
- Prior experience with hardware anomaly troubleshooting and failure analysis.
- Familiarity with the NASA/JSC engineering flight hardware life cycle process.
- Ability to review Work Authorization Documents (WADs) to process Class I hardware for flight/testing support.
- Self‑motivated, team player, adaptable to a dynamic environment, and able to complete all assignments as required.
- Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.
- Ability to visualize and work with complex mechanical/electrical systems and work with others in problem solving as part of a team.
Skills
- Prior experience managing and leading a team (desired).
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability benefits, life insurance, retirement
for prose. We need to decide which content is prose vs list. About the role: could be a
containing the paragraph(s). Responsibilities: list. Requirements: list. Skills: maybe list (desired). Benefits: list (maybe bullet list of benefits). Could be a
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Schedule: maybe a
- Work with internal project and matrix support to build a successful team for the development, manufacturing, testing, certification, and sustaining engineering of major government furnished equipment end items for engineering spaceflight hardware projects.
- Point contact and organizer of bases of estimate process for the flight hardware.
- Develop and maintain financial reports that monitor cost performance against established plans.
- Oversee and develop procedures, work instructions and process flow.
- Review and analyze financial data to ensure accuracy of reporting.
- Interface frequently with inter-organizational disciplines, NASA managers, and operational customers to deliver up to date project performance.
- Plan and execute hardware troubleshooting to investigate mechanical and electrical failures within flight hardware or test support hardware.
- Provide strategic and logistic plans for execution of new project development, sustaining engineering, and resupply activities related to spaceflight hardware and software.
- Advocate on behalf of the project in leading activities related to the development, sustaining, resupply, operation, and troubleshooting of on-orbit anomalies.
- Represent the project at all the flight hardware development life cycle meetings.
- Coordinate and support flight hardware products and systems development phases, through design, procurement, fabrication, test, data analysis, certification, and flight/mission delivery.
- Develop and present project status at customer Technical, Cost, Schedule, and Risk (TCSR) reviews.
- Create a very positive environment with the team that unites team members.
- Perform job functions based on pre-established guidelines or instructions.
- Other duties as assigned.
- US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status required due to sensitivity of customer related information.
- Experience in the space industry or Department of Defense/Department of War.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years of recent and related work experience.
- Prior experience with financial reporting, including budgeting, forecasting and cost estimating.
- Experience with NASA/JSC flight hardware processing for spaceflight.
- Experience with NASA/JSC Class I flight hardware process and certification.
- Prior experience with hardware anomaly troubleshooting and failure analysis.
- Familiarity with the NASA/JSC engineering flight hardware life cycle process.
- Ability to review Work Authorization Documents (WADs) to process Class I hardware for flight/testing support.
- Self‑motivated, team player, adaptable to a dynamic environment, and able to complete all assignments as required.
- Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.
- Ability to visualize and work with complex mechanical/electrical systems and work with others in problem solving as part of a team.
- Prior experience managing and leading a team (desired).
- Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability benefits, life insurance, retirement
(since it's a short statement). Now ensure we don't include boilerplate like "About Bastion", "Workplace Excellence", etc. Now produce HTML. Let's craft.
About the role
The Spaceflight Hardware Project Manager will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058). Are you passionate about human space exploration and avionics development? Join our diverse, mission‑driven team! We need your creativity, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to help build systems that enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth. Join us as we tackle exciting challenges for NASA's deep‑space missions. Amentum is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider, working together with centers across the United States.