What are the responsibilities and job description for the Aviation Psychology Support position at SIERTEK LTD?
Job Details
Description
SierTeK proudly serves our clients by providing expertise in the Program Management, Information Technology, and Administrative Support domains. Founded in 2007 as a minority and service-disabled veteran-owned company, we serve as prime- and subcontractor for a multitude of Federal Department of Defense contracts. By focusing on continual improvement, our services remain at the forefront of our industry, and we pride ourselves on delivering our services with the highest degree of integrity.
SierTeK Ltd. is seeking a Aviation Psychology Support to support an opportunity at Wright-Patterson, AFB, Ohio.
POSITION OVERVIEW SECTION
Apply principles of psychology to human resources, administration, management, sales, and marketing problems. Activities may include policy planning; employee testing and selection, training, and development; and organizational development and analysis. May work with management to organize the work setting to improve worker productivity.
Essential Job Functions
- Assist the Principal Investigator in identifying instrumentation that best supports measurement of basic aviation skills and abilities, developing and executing a data collection plan that provides concurrent validation of potential instrumentation, and writing technical reports/briefings to describe progress and outcomes of the work.
- Work closely with Air Education and Training command (Airman Development Command) pilot training instructor pilots and curriculum developers to understand skills and abilities required to be a successful pilot to then apply to the Air Force enlisted and officer aviation classification processes.
Qualifications
Minimum Position Requirements
- Have knowledge in general cognitive psychology and aviation with at least an MS degree in a science, technical, or engineering field. The Contractor shall be able to perform at least Journeyman level responsibilities, for the below tasks, and may be able to provide SME level responsibilities and duties.
- Possess knowledge in perceptual processes and display design
- Possess knowledge in attention and working memory
- Possess knowledge in skill development and transfer of training
- Possess knowledge in decision-making processes
- Possess knowledge in stress and mental workload
- Possess knowledge in individual differences
- Possess knowledge in specific aviation knowledge in simulation and training. Flight procedures, flight control, flight deck displays, crew resource management, human-automation interaction, accident/incident analysis
- Possess knowledge in following skills and abilities: experimental design and statistical analysis and task analysis – in particular, cognitive task analysis
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