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Research Physiologist
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 45 days ago
About the Role
The Federal Aviation Administration¿s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) supports the agency¿s aviation safety mission by executing an aerospace medicine research program. This research program focuses on safety sensitive personnel, airline passenger, and commercial space flight participant health, safety, and performance in current and forecasted future civilian aerospace operations.
What You'll Do
- →Researchers conduct aerospace-relevant applied research in the biomedical, biodynamics and survivability/cabin safety sciences.
- →The research physiologist works primarily as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary environmental physiology and civil aerospace medical research team.
- →Incumbent will perform multiple, varying, and complex assignments under the limited direction of a section manager and research team leader.
- →May act as a contributing associate investigator on large work activities or as a principal investigator for single or small work activities.
- →Applies experience and advanced technical knowledge in human physiology, aviation/aerospace physiology, and environmental physiology to accomplish assignments.
- →Also employs technical knowledge of physiological sensor technologies, and skills in experimental set-up, instrumentation, and operation and maintenance of complex data acquisition systems to collect, record, and analyze human physiological data.
- →Understands how his/her technical area interacts with or is affected by other disciplines and considers the objectives of the research sponsor when developing research projects addressing diverse, complex problems.
- →Defines, plans, and organizes assigned resources to accomplish research projects and achieve research objectives.
- →Allocates resources to accomplish small work-activities within established schedules.
- →Contacts are internal and external.
- →May act as a key technical point of contact for assigned activities.
- →Is primary author or contributes to the preparation of management/technical reports or contractual documents, and may communicate the overall results of a project or work activity to FAA management, the aviation and aerospace industries, and other external parties.
- →Uses or adapts guidelines consisting of literature in the fields of human physiology, aviation/aerospace physiology, and environmental physiology; procedures; instructions; or precedents to meet the requirements of the current assignment.
- →May need to deal with situations where the existing literature is of limited usefulness due to contradictions, critical gaps, or limited applicability, or is largely absent because of the novel nature of the work.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓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.
- ✓KSA Information: As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
- ✓Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are not required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
- ✓In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.
- ✓Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 04b283c8-ab6b-47d5-8d9a-8cbc87bb53c2
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