Bastion offers career opportunities with competitive benefits, exciting possibilities for advancement and an exceptional work environment. Our culture is based on strong business ethics, integrity, and professionalism. Our team members are known for their initiative and high-quality work. When it comes to our employees, we value, respect, and help them grow in their careers.

The Maintainability Engineer will support the xEVAS contract supporting the new commercial space suit.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner with systems engineers and design engineers to identify and implement improvements that increase reliability and improve maintainability resulting in safer space suits with lower operational costs.
• Collaborate with XEVAS IPT systems engineers to develop strategies that lower space suite maintenance costs.
• Work with XEVAS IPTs to understand space suit operational cost models and then using those to inform design requirements.
• Responsible for identifying components that drive operational maintenance costs and then develop plans to reduce those recurring costs. This includes definition and optimization of preventive maintenance plans.
• Responsible for developing long-term strategies to continuously improve the suit service life over a program's lifecycle.
• Responsible for developing the best practices within the maintainability discipline, including processes and tools that can be reused across the XEVAS program to develop highly maintainable and low-operating-cost space suits. This includes lifecycle cost analysis for space suit maintenance, establishing criteria for spare parts management, and refining the approach for verifying space suit service life and maintenance intervals.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED:

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering, or a related field.
• Must have 5+ years of recent and related work experience.
• In lieu of a degree, candidates with 9+ years of relevant work experience will be considered.
• Familiar and understand human factors engineering concepts and requirements.
• Logistics understanding of supply chain requirements and supply chain timelines.
• Total understanding of service life, shelf life, and operational life requirements and impacts of program. Storage life requirements for suitable storage areas controlled and un-controlled areas.
• Safety engineering for components and access requirements for components.
• All required scheduled and unscheduled maintenance planning activities.
• Planning for observed and intrinsic maintenance levels.
• Understand difference between orbital replacement, line replacement units and shop replacement level units.
• Complete understanding of repair level analysis.
• Ability to communicate maintainability technical data/analyses to management.
• Ability to interface effectively with hardware and systems engineers to develop comprehensive understanding of XEVAS hardware, operations, and performance.
• Ability to gather, analyze, interpret, and integrate failure data.
• Effective working within a team environment and as a stand-alone subject matter expert.

PREFERRED: (Skills other than those required to meet the minimum requirements for the job):

• Prior experience with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) processes and procedures is highly desired.
• Prior experience working for the military or other major aerospace and space companies.
• Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems and operations (e.g. thermal control, life support systems, suited systems, and hyper- or hypobaric environments field research).
  

WORK LOCATION:

• This position is located onsite.

STANDARD BASTION REQUIREMENTS:

All of Bastion's employees must be team players, able to communicate effectively with internal and external customers, able to follow company programs, processes, procedures, practices, requirements, goals, and objectives, they must have a strong work ethic and must be safety culture oriented. In addition, they must have experience with Microsoft Office Suite, and must be organized with good time management skills.

BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS REQUIRED:

All Bastion employees must be able to pass a national agency check, some positions require a clearance and will require an extensive background verification/check process.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL SCREENING REQUIRED:

All Bastion employees must be able to pass pre-employment drug screen; some contracts require participation in periodic random drug and alcohol screening programs.

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, and flexible work schedules (when available). We also support career advancement through professional training and development.

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY:

At Bastion, we are passionate about our people and our safety culture. We are committed to a journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company, that philosophy fosters an environment of collaboration across cultures. Individual thoughts, opinions, and perspectives bring value and help us develop solutions for challenging problems, they make us more inventive, and more resilient.

VACCINE MANDATE:

In compliance with the U.S. federal government's vaccine mandate, only candidates who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or who have a reasonable accommodation or approved medical exception will be considered for this position.

Bastion 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.

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