General Engineer, AST, Experimental Facility Development (Direct Hire)
Required Skills
Job Description
**Summary**
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NASA Johnson Space Center is seeking a highly skilled Low Voltage Electrical Engineer to support mission\-critical facilities and utilities infrastructure. This position serves as a technical authority responsible for ensuring the reliability, safety, design, and compliance of electrical systems supporting a large campus environment, including Central Heating and Cooling Plants and critical mission support systems
Learn more about this agency
**This job is open to**
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### **The public**
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
**Duties**
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* Collaborate across disciplines to support facility sustainment, modernization, and mission readiness.
* Conduct system assessments and support preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
* Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), utility procedures, and electrical safety checklists.
* Develop, review, and approve electrical designs, specifications, and modifications for facility projects and construction contracts.
* Ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of electrical infrastructure supporting NASA’s mission.
* Prepare and deliver technical briefings, presentations, and engineering recommendations to senior leadership.
* Ensure compliance with NEC (National Electrical Code), NFPA 70E (National Fire Protection Association), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and other applicable codes and standards.
* Provide technical leadership and engineering excellence in a highly visible, mission\-driven environment.
* Troubleshoot and optimize motors, pumps, and variable frequency drives (VFDs).
**Requirements**
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### **Conditions of employment**
* This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
* This position may require a one\-year probationary period. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11\. \*\*See Additional Information section\*\*
* You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
* Position subject to pre\-employment background investigation.
* If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
### **Qualifications**
In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
NASA utilizes OPM\-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement.
To qualify for GS\-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS\-13 level:
* Designing, operating, maintaining, and/or troubleshooting low\-voltage distribution and connected equipment (e.g., transformers, switchgear, motors, VFDs, PLCs);
* Supporting utility systems or central plants in an industrial, campus, or similar environment; AND
* Reviewing engineering designs, providing facility or construction project recommendations, and communicating technical information through briefings, reports, and/or presentations.
Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.
NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI\-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how\-to\-apply/\#Artificial\-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.
### **Education**
**Basic Education Requirement:** You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following:
a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs
b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science
c) Computer Science that included 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of course work in any combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science with at least half of those hours in mathematics and statistics courses that included differential and integral calculus; and that provided an in\-depth knowledge of theoretical and practical applications of computer science, including digital computer system archi
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NASA Johnson Space Center is seeking a highly skilled Low Voltage Electrical Engineer to support mission\-critical facilities and utilities infrastructure. This position serves as a technical authority responsible for ensuring the reliability, safety, design, and compliance of electrical systems supporting a large campus environment, including Central Heating and Cooling Plants and critical mission support systems
Learn more about this agency
**This job is open to**
-----------------------
### **The public**
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
**Duties**
----------
* Collaborate across disciplines to support facility sustainment, modernization, and mission readiness.
* Conduct system assessments and support preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
* Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), utility procedures, and electrical safety checklists.
* Develop, review, and approve electrical designs, specifications, and modifications for facility projects and construction contracts.
* Ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of electrical infrastructure supporting NASA’s mission.
* Prepare and deliver technical briefings, presentations, and engineering recommendations to senior leadership.
* Ensure compliance with NEC (National Electrical Code), NFPA 70E (National Fire Protection Association), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and other applicable codes and standards.
* Provide technical leadership and engineering excellence in a highly visible, mission\-driven environment.
* Troubleshoot and optimize motors, pumps, and variable frequency drives (VFDs).
**Requirements**
----------------
### **Conditions of employment**
* This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
* This position may require a one\-year probationary period. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11\. \*\*See Additional Information section\*\*
* You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
* Position subject to pre\-employment background investigation.
* If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
### **Qualifications**
In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
NASA utilizes OPM\-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement.
To qualify for GS\-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS\-13 level:
* Designing, operating, maintaining, and/or troubleshooting low\-voltage distribution and connected equipment (e.g., transformers, switchgear, motors, VFDs, PLCs);
* Supporting utility systems or central plants in an industrial, campus, or similar environment; AND
* Reviewing engineering designs, providing facility or construction project recommendations, and communicating technical information through briefings, reports, and/or presentations.
Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.
NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI\-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how\-to\-apply/\#Artificial\-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.
### **Education**
**Basic Education Requirement:** You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following:
a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs
b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science
c) Computer Science that included 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of course work in any combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science with at least half of those hours in mathematics and statistics courses that included differential and integral calculus; and that provided an in\-depth knowledge of theoretical and practical applications of computer science, including digital computer system archi
Posted: 2026-05-01