Payload Safety Program Executive, Mission Assurance lead, missions and program assessment division
Maggie Jones serves as the program executive for Payload Safety and the cross-cutting mission assurance lead for the Missions and Program Assessment Division, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance.
She previously served as the deputy director of Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) at NASA Stennis Space Center. In this role, she provided leadership and strategic guidance for SMA employees and support contractors.
Jones began her career at Stennis in 1999, completing a research project as a graduate student. She continued working in the Stennis contractor workforce until 2008 when she joined NASA as a Quality engineer. Jones has managed a variety of integrated efforts across Stennis, including development and implementation of Stennis’s Institutional Risk Management Program, projects initiated by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center chief engineer, and the center’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program.
Since assuming responsibility for oversight of Range Safety and the expansion of R-4403 in 2010, she has consistently worked to ensure the continuation of the R-4403 expansion effort, which the center successfully achieved in 2016. She also serves as the chair of the Stennis Training and Certification Board, ensuring consistent training and qualifications are applied across the site for the safety of the entire workforce.
Jones has spent most of her life residing in Mandeville, Louisiana, where she graduated as a valedictorian from St. Scholastica Academy. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Louisiana Tech University and a Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of New Orleans.
She completed the NASA Leveraging Agency Supervisory Excellence and Resilience Program and participated in the curriculum development of subsequent supervisory development programs for the agency. Jones is a graduate of Leadership St. Tammany and has received several awards from NASA, including the Outstanding Leadership Medal.