This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Division of Reactor Oversight, Operator Licensing and Human Factors Branch, Human Factors Team. The supervisor is Phil McKenna. This position is not in the Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position IS subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements.

Duties

The incumbent will serve as an NRC technical authority and supervisory team leader responsible for performing and managing a broad range of mission-critical work associated with the specialized field of Human Factors Engineering (HFE).  The incumbent is responsible for supervising, evaluating, managing and providing technically authoritative direction and advisories for the most complex aspects of HFE programs and projects with agency-wide impact.  This includes, but is not limited to:

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• This is a Drug Testing position.
• Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: Demonstrated knowledge and experience of the design features and operating characteristics of commercial nuclear power facilities. This experience should show knowledge of how operators interact with the various systems at a nuclear plants to mitigate accidents.  Describe education, training, and experience that demonstrate your knowledge of commercial nuclear power plant operations, technology, and design.  Specifically, describe your knowledge of how plant operators interface with various systems at a nuclear power plant to mitigate accidents.   Demonstrated ability to lead activities associated with the review of human performance and human factors considerations in the design, licensing, or operation of commercial nuclear power plants. This includes planning, conducting, and coordinating human factors technical reviews for both operating and new reactors. Describe education, training, and experience demonstrating your ability to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of human performance and human factors considerations in the design, licensing, and operation of commercial nuclear power plants. Demonstrated ability to effectively direct individuals and teams to resolve challenging technical problems and ensure timely completion of complex projects. The candidate should demonstrate an ability to present technical information both orally and in writing. Describe experience in demonstrating your ability to direct teams to complete complex technical projects.  Describe your contributions in leading the project, and the outcome.  Examples should demonstrate your ability to prioritize, plan, schedule, manage, and resolve issues identified.  Highlight any cases where you collaborated with diverse groups with competing goals and priorities on multidisciplinary projects.   Demonstrated experience applying NRC human factors rules, regulations, policies, guides, and review plans or equivalent in the review or inspection of reactor operations, maintenance, engineering, and plant support when executing assigned work activities. Describe knowledge and experience gained as a regulator or a licensee in the application of NRC human factors rules, regulations, policies, guides, etc., as they pertain to various issues encountered in the operation and inspection at the plant. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience conducting the review and evaluation of nuclear power plant designs and operations from the standpoint of human factors and man-machine systems interfaces; participating in the development of research studies and analysis of human factors associated with nuclear power plants; and/or providing specialized, technically authoritative assistance and advice in the area of human factors and man-machine-system interfaces for existing and advanced nuclear power plant designs.  Examples of qualifying experience include (but are not limited to) applying the concepts of human factors and man-machine system interfaces in reviews of license amendments, facility license or design certification applications, research activities, industry standards, inspection reports, or enforcement actions. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume.

Education

0801 Basic Requirements: 

1. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

1. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
   1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
   2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
   3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
   4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

0180 Basic Requirements 

Degree: major or equivalent in psychology for all specializations except clinical psychology and counseling psychology. These two specializations have additional educational requirements, as stated below:

• Clinical psychology: For positions at grades GS-11 and above, satisfactory completion of all the requirements for the doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology is required.
• Counseling psychology: For positions at grades GS-9 and above, satisfactory completion of 2 full academic years of graduate study directly related to professional work in counseling psychology, or satisfactory completion in an accredited educational institution of all the requirements for a master's degree directly related to counseling psychology is required.

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Human Resources Attn: T2-A77M Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Joanne Kennedy
• Phone: 301-415-0431
• Email: [email protected]