Attachment J.1_Labor Category Descriptions.pdf

RFP No. 693JJ321R000002 Attachment J.1

LABOR CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS

Job

Levels Description Qualifications/Performance Equivalent

1 Junior - New with no work experience At a minimum, must have a BS/BA in a relevant field. This may be substituted with approximately 4 years of appropriate work experience.

Midlevel - Some experience and ability to work independently. Sufficient experience/judgement to make decisions.

Work requires only periodic review and oversight.

At a minimum, must have a BS/BA in a relevant field with approximately 4 years of experience.

This may be substituted by a MS/MA in a relevant field with approximately 2 years of experience; or a PhD in a relevant field; or approximately 8 years of relevant work experience.

Senior Professional - Sufficient experience to outline and execute work plans. Identifies issues and provides recommended solutions/alternatives. Assists in program management. Manages and develops staff.

At a minimum, must have a BS/BA in a relevant field with approximately 8 years of experience.

This may be substituted with a MS/MA in a relevant field with approximately 6 years of experience; or a PhD in a relevant field with approximately 4 years of appropriate and progressively responsible experience; or approximately 12 years of appropriate and progressively responsible work experience.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Recognized authority in appropriate area.

Outlines workplans for complex projects and oversees successful completion. Sufficient experience to provide program and industry level solutions and direction.

At a minimum, must have a BS/BA in appropriate field with 17 years of experience. This may be substituted by a MS/MA in a relevant field with 15 approximately years of experience; or PhD in a relevant field with approximately 13 years of experience; or approximately 21 years of appropriate work experience.

Program Manager - Program Manager with responsibility and oversight of all STOL projects.

Corporate decision/validation

Program Manager (PM) The Program Manager (PM) is responsible for overall management of the contract, including quality assurance for all products delivered to the Government and availability of resources to complete all Task Orders. PM duties generally include:

• Oversee the development of program schedules, resource allocation and budgets. Tracking the program budgets and providing forecasts, establishing and maintaining program status summaries and metrics for the project portfolio.

• Organize, direct, and manage contract operation support functions, involving multiple, complex and inter-related project tasks.

• Manage teams of contract support personnel at multiple locations.

• Maintain and manage the client interface at the senior levels of the client organization.

• Meet with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverable items. Ensure conformance with program task schedules and costs.

• Ensure that work practices comply with all applicable occupational safety and health standards (OSHA) and contract terms and conditions. This includes following TFHRC procedures for fire drills and facility safety procedures.

Lab Manager (LM) The Lab Manager supports the PM in managing the operations and maintenance of the Saxton Lab personal property, equipment, and software. LM duties include:

• Lead the activities to operate and maintain the Saxton Lab including supervision of lab equipment and software.

• Coordinate and schedule users and visitors to Lab resources.

• Coordinate and schedule all maintenance activities.

• Keep records of equipment and lab supplies.

• Monitor inventory of spare parts, supplies, and daily laboratory usage of the Lab.

• Oversee scheduling of laboratory equipment and facilities.

• Acquire equipment and software

• Develop and maintain a Laboratory Safety Plan and records of OSHA and specialized equipment training for all Lab staff.

Communications Manager (CM) The Communications Manager is responsible for overall management of all communications and outreach activities in support of the Saxton Lab and HRDO. CM duties include:

• Lead and supervise the communications and outreach staff.

• Manage the development of communication and outreach materials in support of individual

Task Orders and HRDO. These materials include but not limited to: website content, factsheets, presentations, branding, graphics, multimedia; and publication of reports.

• Ensure that all materials and products that have an external audience follow all FHWA procedures for editing, review, and approval.

• Ensure all reports, as appropriate, comply with the TFHRC Communications Reference Guide (CRG) FHWA-HRT-15-058 (or latest addition).

• Maintain and update the Communications and Outreach Strategic Plan and the annual Communications and Outreach Implementation Plan.

ENGINEER LABOR

Engineer - Transportation The Engineer – Transportation (ET) is responsible for the traffic analysis of transportation system performance on roadway links, intersections, and networks. Perform engineering duties in the design of ITS and other operational systems or capital improvements to improve throughput and safety performance in a cost-effective manner with respect to environmental and other constraints.

Perform engineering duties in modeling traffic and conducting traffic simulation analysis, including sophisticated hardware-in-the-loop, script development, and interface with Application Programming Interface (API). May require testing and validation of engineering models, simulations, systems, and ITS equipment.

Engineer - Electrical The Engineer – Electrical (EE) is responsible for the research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for scientific use. Research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or system specific use.

Design electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as telecommunications, aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls. Perform engineering duties at a higher systems level of the hardware and software, primarily commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), required for control of traffic signals, traffic management systems, and vehicle guidance systems. Includes control engineering, optimization, testing and validation, and control system design.

Engineer – Geospatial The Engineer – Geospatial (EG) is responsible to collect, analyze, and interpret geographic information provided by geodetic surveys, aerial photographs, and satellite data. Research, study, and prepare maps and other spatial data in digital or graphic form. Perform engineering duties for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) of systems for continuous updating of the geographical location of mobile objects and their direction to reach specified destinations.

Primary reliance will be on satellite global positioning systems (GPS), and with differential augmentation, but also on backup and alternative means such as dead reckoning, inertial reference, and map matching. Additional applications include the surveying of fixed objects to establish their geographical location in a uniform regional, national, or global reference system, as well as experience with Image/Radar processing.

Engineer - Communications The Engineer – Communication (EC) is responsible for engineering of voice and data, analog and digital, communication networks over twisted-pair, cable, and wireless media, and in a variety of networks (including point-to-point, switched, and cellular). Included are terrestrial and satellite links as well as network management systems for reliability, maintainability, and availability performance and cost minimization. Skills also include knowledge of the areas of Wireless Communication Systems & Methods and Wireless connectivity site evaluation. Perform engineering duties in the analysis of the performance of wireless, RF and communications/cellular or satellite networks. Provide direct experience with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), ITS applications, transportation systems, wireless communications systems, performing channel loading analysis, test planning and execution, IEEE and other related standards, and engineering and evaluation. Demonstrated experience in defining requirements from multi-perspective, user operational needs and translating those requirements into a multi-level detailed and multi-perspective representation (also known as “architecture”) of an operating information, communications, and control system. Demonstrated experience in allocating the architecture at any level into coherent modules for development of further detail, and the re-integration of detailed development into a working whole at the next highest level. Perform engineering duties to plan, implement, upgrade, or monitor security measures for the protection of computer networks and information. May ensure appropriate security controls are in place that will safeguard digital files and vital electronic infrastructure. May include testing and validation of systems.

TECHNICIAN LABOR

Technician - Transportation The Technician – Transportation (TT) is responsible for applying theory and principles of civil engineering in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of structures and facilities under the direction of engineering staff or physical scientists. The TT may modify, develop, test, or calibrate machinery and equipment under direction of engineering staff or physical scientists. The TT may conduct field studies to determine traffic volume, speed, effectiveness of signals, adequacy of lighting, and other factors influencing traffic conditions, under direction of a traffic engineer.

Technician - Electrical The Technician – Electrical (TE) may be responsible for applying electrical and electronic theory and related knowledge, usually under the direction of engineering staff, to design, build, repair, calibrate, and modify electrical components, circuitry, controls, and machinery for subsequent evaluation and use by engineering staff in making engineering design decisions. The TE may modify, rate, test, maintain, or calibrate unmanned, automated, servo-mechanical, or electromechanical equipment. May operate unmanned vehicles or other equipment at worksites.

May assist engineers in testing and designing robotics equipment.

Technician - Geospatial The Technician – Geospatial (TG) may be responsible to perform technical work on Positioning, Navigation and Timing and surveying and mapping duties, usually under the direction of an engineer, surveyor, cartographer, or photogrammetrist to obtain data used for construction, mapmaking, boundary location, mining, or other purposes. May calculate mapmaking information and create maps from source data, such as surveying notes, aerial photography, satellite data, or other maps to show topographical features, political boundaries, and other features.

Technician - Communications The Technician– Communications (TC) may be responsible to operate, install, calibrate, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment, which are used to track, position, and evaluate vehicle and infrastructure systems. May record and interpret test data. May include testing and validation of systems.

IT TECHNICAL LABOR

Scrum Master:

The Scrum Master (SM) Master ensures the smooth operation of all Agile team processes and activities. This includes organizing and running daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sizing sessions, backlog grooming sessions, and end-of-sprint ceremonies. The Scrum Master is responsible for tracking sprint progress and burn-down by creating dashboards and reports as needed. In this role, they are responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use.

Software Developer The Software Developer (SD) may be responsible to research, develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions. Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. Perform duties in engineering at a higher systems level of the hardware and software, primarily commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), required to meet automated data processing requirements of ITS. Experience includes areas of connected vehicle technology, software development for real time applications in vehicles, V2V & V2I communication, vehicle instrumentation for control software, trouble shooting and problem identification.

Engineer - Software The Engineer – Software (ES) may be responsible to create, modify, and test the code, forms, and script that allow computer applications to run. Work from specifications drawn up by software developers or other individuals. May assist software developers by analyzing user needs and designing software solutions. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information. The Computer Programmer may be responsible for programming in multiple languages and on various platforms including but not limited to C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Windows XP and Later, Unix, and Lynx.

Database and Network Analysts The Database and Network Analysts (DNA) may be responsible to administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases. Perform duties to design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks outside the USDOT network. Monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users and may perform necessary maintenance to support network availability. Perform network modeling, analysis, and planning. May also design network and computer security measures in coordination with FHWA network administrators. May research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software to FHWA network administrators. Perform engineering duties to analyze science, engineering, business, and other data processing problems to implement and improve computer systems. Perform duties to include engineering of the structure of data storage and query systems, and their hardware and software requirements for human input and retrieval of data. Includes geographical information system (GIS) databases and data collection and management, engineering of local, wide area, metropolitan and national-scale data networks with detailed protocol stack standards, and integration of non-standard networks into open-standard networks. Perform duties to explore and implement Big Data approaches including Cloud Computing, Big Data Hosting, and Big Data Analytics.

RESEARCH LABOR

Operations Research Analyst The Operations Research Analyst (ORA) may be responsible to formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists management with decision making, policy formulation, or other managerial functions. Perform duties in quantitative analyses to characterize and optimize the financial and other performance of transportation systems within large and complex institutional settings, involving public and private sectors; and defining and conducting economic analysis of benefits and costs of transportation systems. May collect and analyze data and develop decision support software, service, or products.

May include testing and validation analysis.

Statistician and Data Analyst The Statistician and Data Analyst (DA) may be responsible to develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. Perform duties in data mining and management, data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization.

OTHER TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

Technical Writer The Technical Writers (TW) may be responsible to plan, coordinate, or edit content of material for publication. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication. May write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions.

Outreach Specialist The Outreach Specialist (OS) may be responsible to engage in promoting or creating outreach material with a variety of media to reach individuals, groups, or organizations. Perform duties in task management and execution of outreach activities including advertising, direct marketing, collateral, promotions and other marketing materials, and contributing ideas and designing artwork, using a wide range of media, including photography and computer aided cinematography.

This includes duties to design, create, and modify Web sites.

Communications Specialist (CS) The Communications Specialist (CS) may be responsible for all communications and outreach-related tasks. The CS is responsible for managing public outreach and stakeholder engagement and for all related Task Orders. CS duties include:

• Plan, organize, direct, coordinate, evaluate, and provide outreach for stakeholder engagement activities.

• Oversee the development and implementation of outreach.

• Coordinate development of events to publicize Office of Operations R&D activities.

• Coordinate logistics and communications in support of events, including use of social media, public announcements, and collateral material as needed.

• Maintain close relationship with key FHWA stakeholders to facilitate communication on

R&D priorities.

Clerical/Administrative Professional The Administrative Professional (AP) may be required to provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings.

ACADEMIC FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

Academic Faculty The Academic Faculty (AF) may be responsible for research pertaining to the application of physical laws and principles of engineering for the development of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and services. May specialize in a field of computer science, such as the design and function of computers or operations and research analysis. May specialize in mathematical concepts, statistics, and actuarial science, and applications of original and standardized mathematical techniques in solving specific problems and situations. Includes faculty of subjects such as civil, electrical, human factors, industrial, and mechanical engineering, and, mathematics, robotics, and computer science. Faculty may serve in the capacity of Visiting Researcher, for periods of three months or more.

Graduate Student The Graduate Student (GS) are generally majoring in civil, industrial, human factors, transportation, electrical or computer engineering, statistics, robotics, or in a closely related major.

Students may have taken related courses, and preferably will have acquired some experience in these areas of expertise. For some Task Orders, the graduate students may be able to work at the Saxton Lab as Visiting Researchers, preferably full-time for at least several months, or for at least one to two days a week on part- or full-time bases. Graduate students who have completed all necessary coursework toward their degrees and desiring to work full-time at the Saxton Lab to complete requirements for a dissertation in a topic area of mutual interest may be considered as appropriate under a given Task Order.