Cargo Mission Manager
Company: Leidos
Location: Houston
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Leidos has an opening for a Cargo Mission Integration Support
Lead to support NASA’s Mission Integration and Operations(MI&O)
Office in Houston, Texas. The Lead will be part of the Cargo
Mission Contract team and will perform mission support to the
MI&O office, performing analytical assessments, cargo trade
evaluations based on negotiated priorities among the International
Space Station (ISS) Cost Account Manager (CAM)Control stakeholders,
and management of the cargo mission. The position will serve as the
primary point of contact to the Visiting Vehicle(VV) teams, ISS
CAMs, MI&O management, and the ISS Program Office in support of
an assigned cargo mission. The selected candidate will be
responsible for the planning, organizing, securing, and managing of
resources for the successful completion of a mission as well as
coordination of contractor products and resources for the MI&O
office. The tasks of the Cargo Mission Integration Support Lead
ensure that mission is integrated per requirements and cargo events
run within scope and time constraints, with the ultimate goal of
successful delivery and integration of hardware to the vehicle
integrators for launch, or back to the hardware owners in the case
of return missions. Primary Responsibilities: Review the flight
specific schedule milestones. Identify and resolve issues or
challenges to meeting milestones by communicating with the NASA and
contractor teams. Establishing cargo priorities and evaluating
hardware trades to ensure vehicle manifesting and integration is
completed to meet the VV mission and increment objectives to
support on-orbit crew operations. Identify Points of Contact with
hardware providers, VV Integration Managers, and ISS CAMs and
subsystem managers to negotiate and manage the integration mission
as well as negotiating trades and hardware deliveries to ensure
mission milestones are met. Serve as NASA’s primary POC to the VV
team to ensure deliveries and the manifest complement are
supportive of the launch schedule and to provide data products
(Cargo Summary, MPR(Mass Properties Report), big bag planning,
etc.) to the VV as well as reporting to the ISSP(International
Space Station Program). Perform Cargo Certification of Flight
Readiness for the ISS VV mission. Identify off nominal
requirements, requests, and problems pertaining to the VV mission
and hardware that constitutes the mission manifest. Utilize prior
experiences, standard procedures, and basic analysis to resolve
issues. Communicate issues and challenges to MI&O and ISS
management and to coordinate with the VV Office to resolve issues
with the VV team. Manage the flight specific schedule and
coordinate milestones with the MI&O support contractors.
Identify and resolve schedule constraints or challenges throughout
mission timeline. Communicate with resources across the various
contractor CMC teams to ensure that milestones, requirements, and
product deliveries are met. Identify issues and off-nominal
requests pertaining to hardware requirements and delivery to CMC
and to the Next Level Integrator, and utilize prior experiences,
standard procedures, and basic analysis to resolve issues.
Resolution often entails communication with internal and external
organizations and customers, including contractor management,
hardware providers, Visiting Vehicle Team, and NASA reps.
Communicate flight status as needed, including weekly Integrated
Product Team, MIOCB(Mission Integration & Operations Control
Board), TICB(Transportation Integration Control Board), SSPCB(Space
Station Program Control Board) meeting. Required Education and
Skills: Bachelor's Degree and 5 years relevant experience,
including project management experience. Experience with NASA ISS
program. Organized, proactive, and communicates clearly with
ability to present clearly and concisely to program level boards to
facilitate management decisions. Computer skills and familiarity
with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, Word). Experience with
Microsoft Project skills is desired. Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S.
Permanent Resident due to length investigation for non-U.S.
persons. If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos,
we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the
mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting
the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is
ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than
anyone else dares. Original Posting: March 10, 2026 For U.S.
Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos
reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open
for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier
than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. Pay
Range: Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 The Leidos pay range for
this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of
compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending
an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the
job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as
well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable
bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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