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Senior Survival Factors Investigator (Airport Oper & Crashworthiness)

As a Senior Survival Factors Investigator (Airport Oper & Crashworthiness), GS-1801-14, you will perform the following major duties:

• Serves as Group Chair responsible for documenting, analyzing, and evaluating survival factors issues described in the position summary above. These include but are not limited to cabin safety and flight attendant training, occupant protection, airport operations, and airport and community emergency management factors that may arise during major aviation accident/incident investigations.
• Organizes, supervises, and coordinates the activities of the representatives from the operators, manufacturers, professional organizations, FAA, and other participating agencies, including experts in other fields in the course of a survival factors investigation.
• Independently identifies and assesses the significance of survival factors found during on-scene accident investigations. Analyzes and interprets the data uncovered. The purpose of such analysis is to advance the knowledge of survival factors in the operation of aviation systems; provide practical applications of theory in the survival factors for the purpose of publication and general education; and form a basis for the application of practical solutions to the prevention of future accidents of similar nature.
• Determines requirements for special tests, studies, and/or assistance that may be necessary in one or more aspects of a given investigation. Monitors these activities and evaluates findings in terms of relevancy to the probable cause and/or safety recommendations. Studies usually involve the novel and/or innovative application of research results in analyzing survival factors.
• Develops and prepares documentation in the form of reports, photographs, pertinent records, and other appropriate material. Prepares timely and technically correct factual and analytical reports that accurately reflect the pertinent findings in the survival factors areas to be used in the subsequent analysis and probable cause determinations.
• Maintains currency in survival factors affecting aviation safety including emergent research and operational practices, accident investigation methodology.

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