Job Title: Human and Organizational Factors Engineer
Posted by: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Aug 06, 2020
Location:
Job Description:
Background
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proud to be ranked as a BEST Place to Work in the Federal Government. We've earned our top ratings by creating a work environment rich in opportunity, diversity, leadership training, teamwork, and work life balance. Help guide our nation into the next generation of nuclear safety! Begin a challenging career with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission where you can be part of a select group of professionals who protect people and the environment with the peaceful use of nuclear materials in medicine, industry and research.
Duties
This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES), Division of Risk Analysis (DRA), Human Factors and Reliability Branch (HFRB) Rockville, MD.
Note: This job is open to: Current NRC employees on a permanent appointment or NRC competitive TERM appointment; permanent Federal employees who have completed a probationary period and reinstatement eligibles in the Washington, DC commuting area; applicants under the Schedule A Appointment Authority and veterans who are preference eligibles or who have been separated from the Armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 years or more of continuous active service in the Washington, DC commuting area may apply.
As a Human and Organizational Factors Engineer, you will develop and promote an innovation program that drives organizational change. You will function as the agency lead for building acceptance strategies, sustainability plans and outcome measures for programs, initiatives, projects and services to improve program performance. You will serve as a liaison between senior management, subject matter experts, external partners, external agencies and businesses leading innovative initiatives. The work involves professional engineering work relating to the concerns of the design, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and control of operations and systems, and their associated management processes. The incumbent will examine and support the integration of people, information, equipment, automation methods, and materials to achieve optimum quality and productivity in the agency's performance. Your activities will typically include such areas as work planning and control; quality and management control systems; financial planning and cost analyses; and scientific evaluation and modeling.
The successful candidate will perform the full range of duties.
Such duties include but are not limited to:
1. Manages and curates the NRC’s innovation program to identify specific opportunities and general themes for further exploration and development.
2. Manages a technology platform that enables the collection, display and management of innovation across the agency.
3. Coordinates research and insights from internal and external resources to improve the NRC’s innovation program and prioritize focus areas.
4. Facilitates the innovation process from idea creation to implementation.
5. Develops and implements a communication strategy to update the NRC staff on the agency’s innovation program.
Qualifications
In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (13) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates a knowledge of organizational factors and/or organizational change management.
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
1. Demonstrated knowledge of the principles, theories, and practices in the fields of organizational factors and/or organizational change management. Examples may include training and experience that demonstrates your knowledge of organizational factors and/or change management and your use of scientific or proven approaches to accomplish organizational change.
2. Demonstrated ability to lead interdisciplinary teams and perform project management activities. Examples may include experience that demonstrates your ability to coordinate, lead, and manage the activities of interdisciplinary projects and programs within schedule and resource limitations, and to establish effective interactions with individuals to accomplish common objectives and consolidate complex and assorted opinions. Examples include the scope and complexity or innovative nature of the projects and activities and the organizations with which you collaborated.
3. Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate with an organization’s staff and management, other government agencies, elected officials, the public, the press and/or industry groups on varied complex and sometimes controversial technical problems. Examples may include experience in creating innovative multi-media communications and engaging presentations and the various levels of individuals for which the communications were developed. Examples may also include where you have utilized skills in communicating complex technical and/or administrative issues to an organization’s staff and management, other government agencies, elected officials, the public, the press and/or industry groups and how your communications have played a role in the understanding or resolution of issues. Examples include the types of communication products you have had primary responsibility for preparing.
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 and additional space provided for supplemental response.
Education
Qualification for 0801 Series:
Basic Requirements:
A. 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
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.
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.)
How to Apply
Visit www.nrc.gov Review the NRC Opportunities page and click on “view a list of current NRC vacancies, please visit USAJobs EXIT.” Find the Human and Organizational Factors Analyst Job Announcement Number RES/DRA-2020-0005 and apply on-line by August 19, 2020. If you are viewing this opportunity after August 19th please visit NRC’s website and discover additional opportunities for which you might be interested.
NOTE: Please see official announcement for full description of who may apply. Note: This job is open to: Current NRC employees on a permanent appointment or NRC competitive TERM appointment; permanent Federal employees who have completed a probationary period and reinstatement eligibles in the Washington, DC commuting area; applicants under the Schedule A Appointment Authority and veterans who are preference eligibles or who have been separated from the Armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 years or more of continuous active service in the Washington, DC commuting area may apply.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proud to be ranked as a BEST Place to Work in the Federal Government. We've earned our top ratings by creating a work environment rich in opportunity, diversity, leadership training, teamwork, and work life balance. Help guide our nation into the next generation of nuclear safety! Begin a challenging career with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission where you can be part of a select group of professionals who protect people and the environment with the peaceful use of nuclear materials in medicine, industry and research.
Duties
This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES), Division of Risk Analysis (DRA), Human Factors and Reliability Branch (HFRB) Rockville, MD.
Note: This job is open to: Current NRC employees on a permanent appointment or NRC competitive TERM appointment; permanent Federal employees who have completed a probationary period and reinstatement eligibles in the Washington, DC commuting area; applicants under the Schedule A Appointment Authority and veterans who are preference eligibles or who have been separated from the Armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 years or more of continuous active service in the Washington, DC commuting area may apply.
As a Human and Organizational Factors Engineer, you will develop and promote an innovation program that drives organizational change. You will function as the agency lead for building acceptance strategies, sustainability plans and outcome measures for programs, initiatives, projects and services to improve program performance. You will serve as a liaison between senior management, subject matter experts, external partners, external agencies and businesses leading innovative initiatives. The work involves professional engineering work relating to the concerns of the design, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and control of operations and systems, and their associated management processes. The incumbent will examine and support the integration of people, information, equipment, automation methods, and materials to achieve optimum quality and productivity in the agency's performance. Your activities will typically include such areas as work planning and control; quality and management control systems; financial planning and cost analyses; and scientific evaluation and modeling.
The successful candidate will perform the full range of duties.
Such duties include but are not limited to:
1. Manages and curates the NRC’s innovation program to identify specific opportunities and general themes for further exploration and development.
2. Manages a technology platform that enables the collection, display and management of innovation across the agency.
3. Coordinates research and insights from internal and external resources to improve the NRC’s innovation program and prioritize focus areas.
4. Facilitates the innovation process from idea creation to implementation.
5. Develops and implements a communication strategy to update the NRC staff on the agency’s innovation program.
Qualifications
In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (13) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates a knowledge of organizational factors and/or organizational change management.
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
1. Demonstrated knowledge of the principles, theories, and practices in the fields of organizational factors and/or organizational change management. Examples may include training and experience that demonstrates your knowledge of organizational factors and/or change management and your use of scientific or proven approaches to accomplish organizational change.
2. Demonstrated ability to lead interdisciplinary teams and perform project management activities. Examples may include experience that demonstrates your ability to coordinate, lead, and manage the activities of interdisciplinary projects and programs within schedule and resource limitations, and to establish effective interactions with individuals to accomplish common objectives and consolidate complex and assorted opinions. Examples include the scope and complexity or innovative nature of the projects and activities and the organizations with which you collaborated.
3. Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate with an organization’s staff and management, other government agencies, elected officials, the public, the press and/or industry groups on varied complex and sometimes controversial technical problems. Examples may include experience in creating innovative multi-media communications and engaging presentations and the various levels of individuals for which the communications were developed. Examples may also include where you have utilized skills in communicating complex technical and/or administrative issues to an organization’s staff and management, other government agencies, elected officials, the public, the press and/or industry groups and how your communications have played a role in the understanding or resolution of issues. Examples include the types of communication products you have had primary responsibility for preparing.
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 and additional space provided for supplemental response.
Education
Qualification for 0801 Series:
Basic Requirements:
A. 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
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.
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.)
How to Apply
Visit www.nrc.gov Review the NRC Opportunities page and click on “view a list of current NRC vacancies, please visit USAJobs EXIT.” Find the Human and Organizational Factors Analyst Job Announcement Number RES/DRA-2020-0005 and apply on-line by August 19, 2020. If you are viewing this opportunity after August 19th please visit NRC’s website and discover additional opportunities for which you might be interested.
NOTE: Please see official announcement for full description of who may apply. Note: This job is open to: Current NRC employees on a permanent appointment or NRC competitive TERM appointment; permanent Federal employees who have completed a probationary period and reinstatement eligibles in the Washington, DC commuting area; applicants under the Schedule A Appointment Authority and veterans who are preference eligibles or who have been separated from the Armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 years or more of continuous active service in the Washington, DC commuting area may apply.
Education Level:
Bachelors degree or higher
Pay Rate:
Over $100,000
HR. Website URL:
https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/employment.html
Security Clearance:
None
Travel Requirements:
None
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About U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and began operations in 1975. NRC’s mission is to license and regulate the Nation’s civilian use of radioactive materials to provide reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety and to promote the common defense and security and to protect the environment. In carrying out its mission it exercises the following vision: Demonstrate the Principles of Good Regulation (independence, openness, efficiency, clarity, and reliability) in performing our mission. NRC’s scope of responsibility includes: the regulation of commercial nuclear power plants, research and test reactors, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, medical, academic, and industrial uses of radioactive materials; the decommissioning of these facilities and sites; and, the transport, storage, and disposal of radioactive materials and wastes. NRC issues licenses for civilian uses of radioactive materials, oversees the licensees, and certifies standard nuclear reactor designs and spent fuel storage casks and transportation packages. It also licenses the import and export of radioactive materials; participates in international nuclear activities, including multilateral and bilateral safety and security activities; and works closely with its international counterparts to enhance nuclear safety and security worldwide. To accomplish its overall mission NRC has identified two Strategic Goals—To ensure the safe and secure use of radioactive materials. We need a wide variety of administrative and technical staff to accomplish our objectives. We hire engineers, scientists, security specialists, information technology professionals, financial analysts, and a range of other occupations. We’re constantly looking for outstanding individuals at all levels – recent grads, mid-career professionals, and senior leaders.
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