The incumbent serves as an engineering research psychologist in the Human-Systems Integration Branch at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center. The incumbent conducts human factors research, engineering, development, testing, and evaluation activities in the aviation domain. The incumbent’s work supports the FAA efforts to improve the performance and effectiveness of air traffic controllers, pilots, and other aviation professionals.

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.

Requirements

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• 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:https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/psychology-series-0180/To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G, FG/GS 5/7/9. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.Experience includes: Experience applying human factors to system/product development or evaluation; experience planning or conducting field-site demonstrations or evaluations and experience with the identification and definition of user needs and requirements.OR3 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.The selecting official may decide to interview all, some or none of the candidates referred for consideration.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

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

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 American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

Contacts

• Address Federal Aviation Administration ACT Regional HR Services Branch Atlantic City International Airport, Bldg. 300 AHF-N710 Atlantic City, NJ 08405 US
• Name: Danielle Long
• Phone: 1 (609) 485-4323
• Email: [email protected]