Total 38 Others level Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Edwards AFB, California

At the GS-05 Level: The technician may work independently or in pairs and will be assigned to work on bird projects that involve area searches, point counts, nest searches, and spot mapping for passerines. Duties will include: surveying for passerines using a variety of survey techniques in wilderness and front country settings; surveying for passerines for long periods of time using binoculars; navigating using GPS technology; entering, proofing, and summarizing data; interacting with the public regarding sensitive avian wildlife management issues; and presenting scientific information to peers and the public. The technician must be able to identify at least 50 species of passerines that regularly occur in the Sierra Nevada by sight and sound and have work experience surveying for passerines.

At the GS-06 Level: In addition to the duties described at the GS-05 level, the incumbent's duties may include any or all of the following or similar duties: organizing and scheduling field crews; updating and maintaining Microsoft Access databases or other similar databases; producing maps using GIS; carrying out literature searches; and assisting in the preparation of reports that include a description of methods, preparation of figures and tables, and a summary of findings.

At GS-07 Level: In addition to the duties described at the GS-05 and GS-06 levels, the incumbent's duties may include any or all of the following or similar duties: being responsible for data and database management; conducting data analysis using statistical software and/or GIS; and supervising crews comprising 1 to 4 people.

FOR ALL GS LEVELS: Technician must have strong hiking, backpacking, and wilderness camping skills, be comfortable in remote wilderness settings with limited human contact, and be able to work in cold, hot, wet, windy, buggy, and potentially stormy conditions. The incumbent must be able to work well independently and in a small crew, be detail-oriented, able to maintain equipment and gear, and have excellent problem solving and communication skills. The incumbent must be able to hike up to 16 miles per day, on and off trail, over rough terrain, while carrying a heavy backpack (weighing a third of person's body weight). This position requires a high degree of physical fitness, navigation expertise, and hiking skills.

Yosemite National Park, California, known worldwide for its spectacular natural beauty is the backdrop for this position. Sitting astride the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the park covers 1,182 square miles of varied wilderness ecosystems, from river valleys to alpine meadows to lofty 13,000 foot high peaks. Yosemite Valley is located 208 miles from San Francisco, 81 miles from Merced, and 94 miles from Fresno. Shopping, medical, postal and laundry services are available in the park. Elevation at the Valley floor is approximately 4,000 feet and 2,200 feet in El Portal. The park is open year-round with the majority of activities occurring during the busy season March through October.

• Conduct research on the variability and processes which affect the chemical, dynamic, and radiative properties that regulate the spatial and temporal distribution and abundance of active tropospheric and stratospheric gases, aerosols, and clouds.
• Analyze data from airborne, ground, balloon, and satellite platforms and investigate the interaction occurring between radiation, photochemistry, and dynamics.
• Serve as the Ames Earth science division’s research and modeling lead for stratospheric dynamics and transport, and lead the Flight Planning and Forecasting (FPF) team for suborbital field campaigns.
• Conceive and advocate for field campaigns, and develop proposals that address science-driven hypotheses relevant to NASA focus areas as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator.
• Lead teams in integrating instruments, models, and other science capabilities to define science questions and traceability from science through observations to data products, toward proposals that address atmospheric science priorities.
• Study and develop new innovative techniques, including the use of machine learning tools for modeling atmospheric phenomena from the local to the global scale.
• Support current and planned NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey satellite missions. Help define algorithms that support Earth System Observatory (ESO) priorities.
• Advance the ESD-wide “Earth Science to Action” strategy, and advocate for synergies and opportunities.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

• Ensures the collecting, accessioning, archiving and digitization of large bodies of historically significant materials meets command and professional standards.
• Performs a variety of duties in History, research and reference services. Ensures the collecting, accessioning, archiving and digitization of large bodies of historically significant materials meets command and professional standards.
• Performs a variety of duties in History, research and reference services. Answers requests for historical information requiring complex research in multiple sources.
• Disseminates historical information through the preparation of finding aids. Assists in maintaining archives.
• Carries out special assignments. Performs archival conservation and preservation work on the historic collections at the Agency; researches regulatory and policy issues; analyzes data; develops briefing slides; prepares documentation to support project needs, such as memorandums and reference papers; presents written and oral reports to supervisor or higher graded specialists, etc.

• Serves as an expert and technical authority to agency management and the aerospace industry in the areas of conceptual vehicle design analysis, aerodynamic database development, applied computational fluid dynamics, and development of analysis tools.
• Emphasizes development and transfer to stakeholders of advanced aerospace design and physics-based analysis tools and flight systems technology.
• Supports studies in areas including integration of new aircraft concepts in the national airspace, vehicle systems analysis, and inform the development of novel and sustainable aircraft and airspace operations.
• Supports studies in areas including integration of new high speed and entry system vehicle analysis and trade studies.
• Overcome complex technical, staffing, and organizational problems. Plan, guide, coordinate, and manage the work of subordinate and matrix resources engaged in accomplishing various missions and functions.
• Establish and maintain liaison with project leaders and division management to ensure adequate distribution of resources and funding.
• Manages the staffing of the office to ensure the skills are matched for current work and positioned well to address future work, and responsible for the career path of civil servant employees and matching their skills to the work of the office.
• Formulate long range plans for developing lines of business, including forecasting upcoming opportunities, potential partnerships, long range planning of projects, and resource requirements for project formulation and proposal development.
• Perform a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

The major duties of this Biological Science Technician position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Implement biological resource management actions as a result of research and monitoring recommendations such as exotic vegetation control, vegetation management, restoration work, riparian protection, historic scene maintenance, etc.
• Participate as a team member with the unit scientist or specialist in all phases of the research process and assumes full technical and operational responsibility for specific phases of the research.
• Provide input into the initial planning of experiments.
• Makes field observations of natural resource conditions.

• Serve as manager of the Open Campus Project for Ames Research Center. Identify requirements for changing physical security elements and operations on portions of Moffett Field. Develop actions and sub-projects to accommodate the changes required.
• Collaborate with multiple organizations across the Center including Center leadership, Center Operations Directorate, Environmental Management Division, Legal, Protective Services, Facility Engineering Division, and NASA Research Park Office.
• Provide strategic coordination and negotiate for required resources to support new and existing leases between NASA Research Park and Center Operations divisions.
• Present project status and decision packages to Facility Utilization Review Board, Center leadership, Center Operations Directorate, Facilities Executive Council, HQ OSI, and other stakeholders as required.
• Communicate to stakeholders internal and external to NASA including local community and county offices.
• Create cost estimate and establish budget required for the Open Campus Project. Advocate for and identify funding sources.
• Develop and support new business processes and practices in the Center Operations Directorate.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

• Provides full range of data science services for scientific and technical intelligence applications, including technical guidance, advisory support, and assistance. Leads a team providing expert knowledge of data science, data engineering, mathematics, statistical analysis, and modeling/simulation to apply to enterprise program level oversight.
• Leads team of Data Scientists working on complex data problems. Serves as team lead providing technical guidance, advisory support, and assistance to partners throughout NASIC, in the solving of highly complex problems. Leads projects working at various stages to include development of action plans, identification of requirements, development and presentation of briefings, data visualizations, and other applicable required project materials and documents.
• Makes technical recommendations and promotes information exchanges with NASIC leadership, and with Intelligence Community, and DoD entities. Integration of technical reports and documents that result from each project or activity. Represents the organization during visits with government and industry representatives.
• Develops and implements Data Science training programs for team and Center use. Develops NASICs data science-related training curriculum. Researches and establishes corresponding training delivery mechanisms. Works with Principal Technical Advisor to establish the training plan, curriculum focus areas, and pace of training offerings.

Major Duties:

At the GS-05 level:

• surveying and monitoring a variety of mammals/owls using standardized survey,
• deploying remote cameras,
• tracking animals using VHF and GPS technology,
• collecting and recording observational data, managing data and equipment associated with bat detectors, wildlife cameras, and telemetry receivers,
• navigating using GPS technology,
• interacting with the public regarding sensitive wildlife management issues,
• presenting scientific information to peers and public,
• training interns and volunteers,
• entering field data in the office,
• assisting with other wildlife projects, as needed,
• working well independently,
• maintaining equipment and gear,
• demonstrating excellent problem solving and communication skills.

• training and organizing field crews,
• updating and maintaining GIS and Microsoft Access databases or other similar databases,
• producing maps using GIS,
• assisting in the preparation of reports, plans, and guidelines. Project reports may include literature search, description of methods, data analysis, preparation of figures and charts, and summary of findings.

• being responsible for data management,
• conducting data analysis using statistical software and/or GIS,
• scheduling and supervising crews comprising 2 to 4 people.

-Responsible for planning and accomplishing complete laboratory projects or experiments for the departmental research and teaching laboratories.
-Conceive, recommend and implement new design approaches and devises alternative ways of accomplishing objectives.
-Maintain cognizance of the operating principles as well as the setup, alignment, maintenance and operational procedures for a wide range of scientific components and subsystems.
-Provide technical support, assistance, advice and instruction to faculty and maintains a safe working laboratory environment.

Continued from Summary: Provide required knowledge and application of engineering, mathematics, statistical analysis, modeling/simulation, and/or other scientific principles, methods, and techniques. Apply knowledge in the planning, research, design, development, test, evaluation, integration, acquisition, dissemination, sustainment, modification, and/or exploitation of highly complex information technology (IT) systems to support the Air Force's mission objectives. Facilitate the integration of network and network-reliant information technology capabilities supporting the nation's warfighters with decisive cyber capabilities for mission success. Provide decision quality data, statistical models, and analysis to implement and maintain a resilient network environment, core services, and infrastructure that preserves the operational advantage. Gather and generate organizational metrics for leadership to facilitate data-driven decisions. Assess current performance, identify opportunities for performance improvement, and provide objective analysis of the second and third order impacts technology decisions, configurations, and architectures.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, and directs first-level supervisory activities.
• Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities.
• Leads a broad range of analyses and/or engineering assignments for the development and documentation of operational concepts and strategies for assigned programs/projects.
• Represents AFNIC with a variety of installation and functional area organizations.
• Accomplishes professional development and maintains technical proficiency through professional interaction with technical and professional societies, associations, academia, symposia, contractors, research and development organizations, and participation in formal training programs.

- Troubleshoots HVAC/R systems with complex problems and extensive repairs requiring judgment to locate malfunctions

- Performs essential direct digital (DDC), electronic, pneumatic, electrical, and electromechanical control work incidental to the operation and maintenance of HVAC/R and building control systems

- Performs preventive maintenance on electronic control systems to include disassembly, cleaning, reassembly, and calibration

- Installs, modifies, overhauls, repairs, and maintains a variety of complex heating boilers and/or heating systems, single and multiple fuel power boilers, and associated auxiliary and pollution control equipment

- Installs, repairs, and maintains large commercial and industrial ventilation, refrigeration, air conditioning (AC), and cooling systems with complex problems and extensive repairs

The Director, Administrative Officer (AO) for Research Service is directly responsible to the Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) for Research & Development (R&D) and through to the Chief of Staff for the oversight of the administration of the Research and Development programs at the Loma Linda VA Health Care System.

Duties encompass administrative aspects for comprehensive support and evaluation of administrative efforts of the VA Loma Linda HCS (VALLHCS).

The VALLHCS Research Program is a large, multifaceted investigator-initiated operation comprised of around 200 active projects funded by federal, private enterprise, non-profit, pharmaceutical sponsors, and academic sponsors. An average of 90 principal investigators, and approximately 250 individuals (VA salaried employees, WOC appointees, medical care staff, IPA's and trainees) are involved in the research, which includes biomedical laboratory, clinical, health services and rehabilitation fields.

Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Ensures that the VA Research program is administered efficiently and in compliance with a variety of policies and laws.
• Manages a variable portfolio of funding.
• Ensures adequate resources are available to investigators and staff.
• Assists investigators and prospective investigators in their effort to carry out VA's Research mission.
• Improves communication within the facility, the office of R&D, the individual research programs, and the principal investigators.
• Effectively manages risk in the Research Program.
• Ensures all compliance related aspects regarding the conduct of approved research are met.
• Provides good "customer service" by being available, and supportive to investigators, and other relevant personnel within the area of responsibility.

• Advises and guides the administrative activities of multiple subordinate research teams within multiple disciplines, which requires an in-depth knowledge of general research systems, programs, and practices of the VHA, NIH and other funding entities.
• Ability to communicate, negotiate, and collaborate with researchers as well as those from other organizational segments to assure maximal program achievements.
• Develops internal monitoring end tracking systems to ensure that researchers and research staff comply with VA guidelines, regulations, policies, and procedures (as well as those of other applicable federal agencies) to protect sensitive information, including veteran's personal identifiers and health information.
• Reviews research proposal submissions for budgetary adequacy, compliance with agency format requirements, administrative completeness.
• Maintains up to date knowledge of internal VA policies as well as external to the agency policies and laws impacting the conduct of VA research.
• Develops and maintains systems to manage the oversight and the coordination of investigations into issues of project management which include appropriate committee reviews, research committee management, liaison with committees such the Institutional Review Boards and Institutional Animal Committee, Biosafety and Conflict of Interest.
• Reviews letters of intent and research proposals to ensure program relevance and conformance with published guidelines.
• Manages the equipment for Research Service ensuring that it is maintained in useful condition and properly assigned/ accounted for.
• Assigns work based on priorities taking into consideration task difficulty, requirement of assignment and capabilities.
• Maintains continuous liaison with the VAMC human resources office in areas of personnel recruiting, promotion, training, equal opportunity employment disciplinary action, performance evaluation, and other areas.
• Prepares a variety of complex, analytical reports for use by Research leadership and facility management in support of policy making and planning efforts.

• Performs advanced professional archival tasks, research and reference services. Ensures the collecting, accessioning, archiving and digitization of large bodies of historically significant materials meets command and professional standards.
• Performs a variety of duties in History, research and reference services. Answers requests for historical information requiring complex research in multiple sources.
• Disseminates historical information through the preparation of finding aids. Assists in maintaining archives.
• Carries out special assignments. Performs archival conservation and preservation work on the historic collections at the Agency.

• Applies administrative knowledge of all range systems and ground support capabilities to resolve difficult and complex problems by providing advice and direction to the Operations Group during the planning and operation of Range mission support.
• Approves emergency leave, as required. Informs the supervisor of team and individual performance, management issues and problems, and recommends corrective actions.
• Coordinates and deconflicts range system availability with other associated ranges to insure efficient and timely support of flight research projects. Maintain close contact with the Air Force Test Center and advises key management of any issues.
• In the absence of the supervisor, has full authority and responsibility to coordinate, monitor and direct the activities of all administrative support elements during a real-time mission.
• Leads the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees; arranging for team member training; monitors and reports on the status and progress of work to supervisor, including individual and team training needs.
• Maintains administrative oversight role in range system development and testing and the transition of newly developed systems into the operational environment. Apply expert knowledge of range operations, systems and policies.
• Overcomes difficult and complex technical, project management, and organizational problems using innovative and original approaches. Participate in project technical briefs, crew briefs, and debriefs to ensure all support requirements are met.
• Responsible for ensuring the organization’s strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, and work.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

• Originate mechanical designs to implement experimental installations. Evaluate design changes and modifications to on-board systems, and devise or approve test procedures to determine operational suitability of systems.
• Determine the structural integrity and adequacy of the aircraft within the design and/or maximum safe flight envelope. Determine specification compliance and mission suitability for assigned experiments aboard the aircraft.
• Make recommendations for resolutions to modifications to accommodate research requirements without affecting the air worthiness of the aircraft.
• Advise inspectors on which assemblies or systems have been fabricated or modified, and the results expected from these extensive modifications or fabrications.
• Participate with the crew chief in studying pending modifications or installations to determine necessity for repositioning or removing existing equipment, lines or tubes, or modification of mounts and braces to accommodate flight research systems.
• Recommend where to install experimental components, assemblies, or system for operational compatibility with other systems.
• Assemble and test components to assure research requirements are achieved. Make final acceptance/rejection recommendations after resolving problem areas and negotiating required modifications.
• Responsible for carrying out assigned duties and responsibilities in a manner consistent with the safety, health, and environmental policies set forth by the supervisor. Report hazardous situations and close calls.
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.