Engineering Research Psychologist - Atlantic City, United States - US Federal Aviation Administration

US Federal Aviation Administration

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Atlantic City, United States

1 week ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Duties:

The incumbent serves as an engineering research psychologist in the Air Traffic Systems Test & Evaluation Services, Human-Systems Integration Branch at the FAA William J.

Hughes Technical Center.

The incumbent works in the Research Development and Human Factors Laboratory and conducts human factors research, engineering, development, testing, and evaluations.

The incumbent's work supports the FAA mission to provide the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world by improving the performance and effectiveness of the human operators of aviation systems.

These operators include air traffic controllers, air traffic managers, technical
operations specialists, pilots, unmanned aircraft operators, dispatchers, aviation safety inspectors, and maintenance technicians.

Conducts reviews of relevant scholarly and technical literature across multiple domains, including psychology, engineering, computer science, and graphic design.
Serves as a contributing author or coauthor to research plans that outline the objectives, hypotheses, methods, metrics, and resources for projects.
Collects human factors data following established techniques and tools, including surveys and questionnaires, video and audio recordings, and physiological monitoring devices.
Conducts data analyses using established techniques and tools, including inferential statistics, data mining, and fasttime modeling.
Serves as contributing author or coauthor for FAA technical reports and journal articles; presents briefings and papers at professional conferences.
Contributes relevant human factors information to requirements documents, system specifications, test procedures, standards, and guidelines.
The incumbent performs assignments of low to moderate scope and complexity under the direction of a manager, team leader, or more experienced scientist or engineer. The incumbent acts as an individual contributor or a member of a multidisciplinary team. Existing policies and procedures provide guidance for most assignments.
Coordinates with manager, team leader, or more experienced staff to plan time and use resources to accomplish assignments.
Frequently refers problems and work issues to manager, team leader, or more experienced staff when existing guidelines are not available or applicable.
Demonstrates some independence in planning time and using assigned resources to accomplish assignments and small projects. Provides regular status updates on activities to manager or team leader; Work is reviewed periodically during assignments and at completion to ensure timeliness and technical compliance with the requirements of the project or other work activity.
Contacts are mainly internal to the branch and project teams, and involve sharing information, providing data and analyses, and discussing the status of assignments. Contacts also include participants in human factors studies, surveys, simulations, or usability tests. Depending on the project, participants may be FAA employees, employees of external companies and organizations, or private citizens.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/195
This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.

Qualifications:

To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Psychology Series, 0180, please refer to:
OR

3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.
D. degree _or_ Ph.
D. or equivalent doctoral degree directly related.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program and/or Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities, you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment section. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement._

This is a career path progression position and has full promotion potential to the pay band -I without further competition.

Identification of promotion in the vacancy announcement does not constitute a commitment or an obligation on the part of management to promote the employee selected at some future date.

Promotion will depend upon the selectee meeting training, qualification requirements, and recommendation by the supervisor.

Education:

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S.

educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an Ame