This position is located in the Safety Research Division, Office of Research and Engineering, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The incumbent serves as an Interdisciplinary General Engineer / Data Scientist / Statistician who plans and conducts transportation safety studies and evaluations of the effectiveness of transportation safety programs and countermeasures.
This position is located in the Safety Research Division, Office of Research and Engineering, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The incumbent serves as an Interdisciplinary General Engineer / Data Scientist / Statistician who plans and conducts transportation safety studies and evaluations of the effectiveness of transportation safety programs and countermeasures.
GS-11: $85,447 - $111,087 Per Year; GS-12: $102,415 - $133,142 Per Year; GS-13: $121,785 - $158,322 Per Year
Applications will be accepted from any U.S. Citizen. Direct-Hire Authority will be used to fill this position. Veteran's preference and category rating of applicants does not apply to this vacancy. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Direct Hire Authority for Shortage Category/Critical need positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
As a Interdisciplinary (Transportation Research Analyst) Direct-Hire,GS-0801/1530/1560-11, you will perform the following major duties:
To be eligible for this position, applicants must meet the Basic Qualification Requirements outlined below, as well as the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) specified in the Education section of this announcement for the applicable occupational series for which they wish to be considered.
GS-11
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience assisting with research studies by performing literature searches and reviews in transportation safety, injury prevention, or a closely related safety field; experience collecting, organizing, cleaning, and validating datasets, and conducting statistical analyses using Python or R or SQL under the guidance of senior researchers, engineers, data scientists, or statisticians; and experience contributing to written reports, data summaries, or presentations that effectively communicate research findings and key insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph. D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
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a combination of Education and Experience. To be creditable, your education must be directly related to the position being filled.
GS-12
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal Service. Experience could have been obtained in the Private sector. Specialized experience is experience contributing to transportation safety research and statistical analyses by applying established study designs, research methodologies, and statistical techniques to defined components of larger research projects such as descriptive studies, systematic and evidence-based reviews, case control studies, or other types of research studies; experience collecting, organizing, and analyzing data using Python and/or R and SQL; and experience using oral and written communication skills to clearly communicate research findings and key insights in plain language to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
GS-13
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal Service. Experience could have been obtained in the private sector. Specialized experience is experience conducting independent research and statistical work in transportation safety, applying research study designs, methods, and statistical techniques such as descriptive studies, meta-analyses, systematic or evidence-based reviews, case-control studies, or other types of research studies experience using data science methods and techniques to perform data and statistical analysis using Python and/or R and SQL; and experience using oral and written communication skills to clearly communicate research findings, key insights, and safety recommendations in plain language to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT
GS-801 Job Series:
A. 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 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 and physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
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B. 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 above.
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.)
For GS-1530 Series:
A. Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.
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B. Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.
For the GS-1560 Job Series:
A. Degree: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.
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B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.
For more information on Education, please refer to the Qualifications section of this announcement.
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
This position will be filled through the Direct Hire Authority. Under this authority, competitive rating, ranking, and veterans' preference procedures do not apply. Your application will be considered based on education, training, and quality of your experience. For more information on Direct-Hire Authority visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/direct-hire-authority/
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