Quality Assurance Specialist (Aerospace)

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.

Serves as the Maintenance Technical Lead for NASA aircraft, providing technical leadership for organizational, intermediate, and depot-level maintenance, modification, inspection, repair, and sustainment activities.

Leads development of aircraft maintenance plans, production schedules, inspection requirements, workload priorities, and resource strategies to support safe, reliable, and mission-ready aircraft operations.

Provides technical direction across maintenance, quality, engineering, operations, logistics, safety, contractors, and program organizations to resolve aircraft maintenance and airworthiness issues.

Evaluates maintenance conditions, technical data, operational requirements, schedules, resources, and risk to develop courses of action, recovery plans, and long-range maintenance strategies for leadership.

Provides oversight of contractor aircraft maintenance activities, assessing technical compliance, workmanship, production, schedules, documentation, and overall maintenance performance.

Develops and delivers technical briefings, maintenance status reports, risk assessments, and recommendations to leadership, clearly communicating issues, alternatives, impacts, and required decisions.

Leads maintenance planning meetings, production and aircraft status reviews, technical discussions, and cross-functional teams to define priorities, responsibilities, risks, actions, and schedules.

Serves as senior technical advisor on maintenance policy, quality assurance, airworthiness, compliance, configuration control, and process improvement to enhance safety, reliability, cost, schedule, and mission performance.