What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Specialist (Safety Research) position at Office of Research and Engineering?
This position is located at the National Transportation Safety Board, in the Office of Research and Engineering's Safety Research Division (RE-10). This division is charged with the agency's responsibility to carry out systematic examinations of risk and hazards within any transportation mode, techniques and methods of transportation accident investigation, and the effectiveness of transportation safety.
NOTE: IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your resume must clearly show the specialized experience and competencies related to this position. Failure to demonstrate how you possess the education, specialized experience and/or competencies will result in an "Ineligible" rating.
Qualifications:
To qualify for this position, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal Service.
Specialized experience includes research and statistical work in transportation safety, such as applying known research study designs and statistical techniques to derive insights from transportation accident and injury data (e.g., descriptive studies, meta-analyses, systematic or evidence-based reviews, case-control studies, or other types of research studies); and data and statistical analysis using one or more of the following: Python, R, SQL, SAS, or SPSS. Experience must also include the use of oral and written communication skills to clearly communicate study results and safety recommendations in plain language to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
"For more information see link: Transportation Specialist Series 2101 (opm.gov)
Specialized experience includes research and statistical work in transportation safety, such as applying known research study designs and statistical techniques to derive insights from transportation accident and injury data (e.g., descriptive studies, meta-analyses, systematic or evidence-based reviews, case-control studies, or other types of research studies); and data and statistical analysis using one or more of the following: Python, R, SQL, SAS, or SPSS. Experience must also include the use of oral and written communication skills to clearly communicate study results and safety recommendations in plain language to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
"For more information see link: Transportation Specialist Series 2101 (opm.gov)
NOTE: IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your resume must clearly show the specialized experience and competencies related to this position. Failure to demonstrate how you possess the education, specialized experience and/or competencies will result in an "Ineligible" rating.
Responsibilities:
As a Transportation Specialist (Safety Research),GS-2101-13, you will perform the following major duties:- Define problems and research questions clearly, perform necessary research and analysis, and evaluate results to determine the most logical and reasonable interpretation for developing safety recommendations
- Serve as the project manager and technical lead for safety research studies, reports, and recommendations.
- Provide technical consultation to accident investigators, analysts, and agency leadership on various aspects of study design, structured and unstructured data collection, sample and census survey instruments, and data analysis and interpretation.
- Conduct specialized data queries, visualizations, and statistical analyses to derive insights from data using industry standard data science/statistical applications or equivalent programming languages such as SQL, SAS, R, or Python.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret transportation activity, accident, injury, and other safety-related data to identify emerging problems and recommend corrective solutions and safety improvements to reduce accidents and injury.
Salary : $121,785