Materials and Processes Engineer

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Materials and Processes Engineer to join the team at Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and normally possess 5-10 years of related experience. License and certification may be required.
• Knowledge in materials and processes for space applications, including materials selection (metallics and nonmetallics), design for corrosion prevention and electrical bonding, failure analysis, heat treatment, adhesive bonding, contamination control, etc.
• Knowledge in metallurgy includes aluminum alloys, titanium alloys, stainless steels, nickel-based alloys, etc.
• Familiar with requirements for contamination control and verification methods for space hardware.
• Familiar with metallic and nonmetallic materials specifications, properties, testing.
• Knowledge in engineering drawing review for materials and processes.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to critically assess manufacturing/material processes and designs.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a multidisciplinary field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Requisition Preferences:

• 5 or more years of related work experience with materials and processes.
• 15 or more years of direct work experience in Metallurgy (heat treatment, corrosion control, additive manufacturing, welding, failure analysis, etc.)
• Knowledge of industry standards for materials specifications and data analysis (MMPDS, AMS, NAS, MIL).
• Previous experience in material selection (metallics and nonmetallics) for electrical components, corrosion prevention, flammability prevention, oxygen compatibility, processes qualification, contamination control, development, test, and evaluation for NASA and/or manned spacecraft projects.
• Knowledge in contamination control and molecular outgassing testing and qualification for aerospace applications.
• Previous experience working in a precision cleaning laboratory/facility.
• Previous experience with human space flight system engineering and integration practices.
• Implementation of system requirements into hardware design and development.

The Materials and Processes Engineer will:

• Advise, guide, and provide consultation on requirements for Materials & Processes (M&P) for intravehicular (IVA) and extravehicular (EVA) environments, including materials selection, process control, and qualification, design for corrosion prevention, electrical bonding, flammability, toxic off-gassing, and processes specification.
• Provide input to program/project specifications and ensure appropriate materials requirements are incorporated into all program/project specifications at the right level.
• Review project/program documentation, specifications, and engineering drawings to ensure M&P requirements are met for spaceflight hardware.
• Assess whether standard vendor processes meet requirements, and if not, clearly define changes that need to be implemented.
• Provide vendors with recommendations for qualification and acceptance testing that will properly satisfy verification of requirements.
• Provide inspection and manufacturing process support for human space flight systems.
• Other duties as required.