Fire Safety Integration Lead for the Lunar Landing System (HLS) (NASA/JSC in Houston)

Fire Safety Integration Lead for the Lunar Landing System (HLS) (NASA/JSC in Houston) View the position to ensure robust fire safety approach for flight hardware in an elevated oxygen environment. You act as primary integration leader between HLS Program and HLS Crew Compartment Office, test project management, and commercial providers. In this role you perform integration leadership for fire safety testing, interface with commercial providers, collaborate with multiple discipline leads and management, and lead resolution of technical issues across disciplines and organizations. Your experience in engineering integration, testing, fire safety, communication, and leadership helps chart a successful path to certification milestones. Responsibilities Provide integration leadership of, and high‑level planning for, large‑scale fire testing. Serve as the primary HLS interface on fire safety matters with the fire testing project manager and project engineers and also as interface to commercial providers regarding test planning. Collaborate closely with HLS Chief Engineer to provide guidance to fire test planning and execution for both internal NASA tests and commercial partner tests. Collaborate with fire, materials and other expert discipline leads, program offices, and cross‑program stakeholders on engineering and operations aspects of operating in a high oxygen environment. Demonstrate strong communication, leadership, and problem‑solving skills, with enthusiasm for diving deep into technical fire safety issues and driving effective solutions. Lead resolution of significant technical issues and risks requiring integration across multiple technical disciplines and organizations. Coordinate with NASA fire safety subject‑matter experts and align Moon‑to‑Mars efforts to enable safe missions in elevated oxygen environments. Provide strategic recommendations to program management on balancing fire safety approaches throughout the program lifecycle. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent degree Minimum 15 years’ experience in engineering and integration roles Minimum 5 years’ experience with test planning, integration and execution Project engineering and/or System Engineering/Integration experience Experience in selection and control of materials, implementation of safety controls, and fire detection/risk mitigation for space vehicle oxygen environment Preferred experience working with flight hardware across multiple disciplines Preferred experience working with NASA commercial partners Preferred Skills Demonstrated experience in engineering integration leadership Demonstrated experience showing self‑motivation and proactivity in communicating and integrating with others without a lot of hands‑on direction Demonstrated experience working within a team environment, where the team is distributed across multiple NASA centers Demonstrated experience in identifying integration concerns and gaps in information and communicating concerns to leadership in a diplomatic manner Demonstrated experience performing cross‑program integration with multiple people for various purposes in parallel Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook) Work Environment You will work onsite at Johnson Space Center within a large team of System Engineering and Integration personnel who work across multiple NASA centers in a hybrid environment. Periodic travel is expected. Hybrid work is available for this position with a minimum of 3 days in office each week. Benefits KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits, which could include a 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development. Equal Opportunity Employer KBR is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Job ID: R2122931 #J-18808-Ljbffr KBR Careers