Flight Operations Engineer

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Flight Operations Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

Must be a US Citizen and Registered for Selective Service

Ongoing position

W2 with full benefits

Offer contingent on ability to successfully pass a background check and drug screen

Job Description:

A successful candidate will train to become an LRO Operations Engineer. The list below reflects general duties and

responsibilities for this position:

• Monitor the health and safety of the LRO spacecraft and ground system.

• Monitor real-time activities and transmit daily loads to LRO.

• Respond to, identify and investigate spacecraft and ground anomalies.

• Write and maintain daily operations records – daily blogs, activity requests, engineering changes, etc.

• Perform daily mission planning activities.

• Perform daily trending and data analysis activities.

• Perform verification testing using the LRO Spacecraft Simulator for all off-nominal activities prior to use on the

spacecraft.

• Will work off-nominal hours during special operations

• Will become the MOT resident expert in a specified spacecraft subsystem and science instrument

• Operations certification – mission planning, trending, and real-time control certifications by start date plus six months

• OpsLead certification – operations shift lead by start date plus 18 – 24 months.

Required Skills:

• Must be a US Citizen

• Offer contingent on ability to successfully pass a background check and drug screen

- The Operations Engineer position requires the candidate to have the following skills and qualifications:

• B.S. in engineering, mathematics, physics or computer sciences with at least one year of related experience.

• Good communication skills.

• Self-motivated; able to work autonomously, with minimal direction.

• Works well with a team.

• Prior experience in spacecraft operations: real-time satellite console (command, control, and telemetry analysis) operations certification is required.

- The following are skills desired for this position:

• ITOS and STOL experience.

• Experience with data processing, flight dynamics and ground networks.

• Experience with Ilog rule development.

• Spacecraft subsystem/instrument performance analysis experience.

• Windows and Linux experience.

• Experience with C, BASH, PERL, and Python Languages.

• Experience with XML and SQL databases

Number of positions

1

Location

Greenbelt

State

Maryland

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