This position is contingent on contract/Task Order award.

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 Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Engineer will develop a PRA model of the xEVAS System that estimates Loss of Crew and Loss of Mission calculations in relevant environments in support of International Space Station and Artemis programs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare, evaluate, and assure reliability & maintainability plans for the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) program supporting commercial space flight.
• Develop and maintain an industry-standard PRA model capable of calculating qualitative risk to the system. The model shall be able to model all risk that could lead to Loss of Crew (LOC) or Loss of Mission (LOM).
• Responsible for consolidating the results of all PRA analyses, related files, logic and assumptions into the Program Probabilistic Risk Assessment deliverable.
• Provide modeling and data analysis for design and operational trade studies in support of mission operations decisions.
• Supports the development and assessment of FMEA/CIL and their ground rules.
• Evaluates project documents related to reliability & maintainability to assure consistency and adequacy with overall project requirements.
• Performs, develops, and utilizes any tools needed to assure that all applicable reliability & maintainability requirements are identified for the xEVAS program and subsystems.
• Responsible for updating, integrating logic models using quantitative fault tree analysis (SAPHIRE or equivalent) and maintaining risk models for the XEVAS elements.
• Additional responsibilities include performing focused quantitative risk assessments to support risk-informed decisions pertaining to space suit testing/operations risk and risk mitigation alternatives.
• 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.
• Education: Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering, or a related field.
• Years of Experience: Must have 5+ years of recent and related work experience.
• Ability to communicate reliability technical data/analyses to management.
• Ability to interface effectively with hardware and systems engineers to develop comprehensive understanding of SLS 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.
  

WORK LOCATION:

This position is located onsite; no hybrid or remote working will be available for this position.

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.

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.

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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