Required Education & Experience:
- To qualify for the GS-13 level, candidates must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 or higher level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
- Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
- To qualify for the GS-12 level, candidates must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 or higher level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and drafting policy, guidance and/or discussion papers related to the areas of human element expertise.
- Facilitating and managing the implementation of human factors engineering and habitability within the agency; and
- Researching, developing, deriving, and defining acquisition required documentation for human factors engineering and habitability including but not limited to operational, functional and technical requirements documents, Human Engineering Program Plans, and Human Engineering Test Plans and Analysis Reports;
- Identifying HSI human factors engineering and habitability concerns in agency/organization programs, assigning risk assessment codes, determining the required level of effort, and implementation risk mitigations and controls; and
- Assisting in strategic planning, development and implementation of tools, best practices, metrics, and resources to foster an efficient and effective Human Factor Engineer (HFE) program;
- Collaborating and coordinating with acquisitions as well as system design activities to ensure humans are effectively integrated into the design, operations and maintenance of systems and human performance requirements are achieved.