| Recognized as a leader in the field by functioning as an
independent researcher or manager. Has full responsibility for project tasks
requiring application of management skills and authoritative knowledge of
appropriate underlying scientific principles and practices for engineering
projects; uses and creates advanced techniques and, instrumentation, and creates
modifications and extensions of theories, precepts, and practices relevant to
the field in which the incumbent is recognized as a leading authority, and/or
provides management and superior leadership of a group of technical staff
members.
Characteristic Duties
- has full technical and managerial responsibility
for evaluating, organizing, and coordinating major technical efforts as a direct
requirement of a scientific project and for key technological developments for
future investigations;
- participates at the highest Institution level
for the development of overall scientific strategies, the identification of
areas for technological emphasis, and the formulation of experimental
techniques;
- speaks for and represents the Institution's
interests in high-level planning activities concerned with technological
developments, externally to the Institution;
- operates as a laboratory head, unit head, or
independent researcher, with full supervisory and management
responsibilities;
- through research endeavors and the preparation
of research results and reports, contributes patentable inventions, important
research techniques, and/or engineering designs that significantly impact the
ways different aspects of ocean science are studied.
Desired Qualifications
Appropriate academic background or its equivalent
relevant work experience, enhanced by more than 15 years of increasingly
successful and creative achievement. Candidates for this rank are recognized as
leaders and authorities in their field through their original contributions.
They must have had far-reaching impact on the scientific activities of the
Institution and their field. They should have demonstrated high levels of
creativity and independence (i.e., a record of superior accomplishment--such as
patents, publications, or documented instrumentation--which provides objective
evidence of original professional contributions) with foresight and judgment in
planning, organizing, and guiding extensive and complex engineering projects.
Last updated: February 25, 2013 |
