Subject: JOB: Research Audiologist/Engineer/Hearing Protection Specialist From: Judi Lapsley Miller <judi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:58:15 +1300 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Posting on behalf of Lynne Marshall: RESEARCH AUDIOLOGIST/ENGINEER/ HEARING PROTECTION SPECIALIST We are seeking a Research Audiologist/Engineer/Hearing Protection Specialist to become the foremost expert on hearing protection for the U.S. Navy. The position is full-time permanent civil service and located in coastal New England. The person will conduct part-time research and testing on devices intended for hearing protection (with or without speech-communication capability). She or he will also monitor the worldwide industry for potentially useful new devices, and interact widely with developers and users. The incumbent will be the Navy's internal consultant on hearing-protection devices, and will provide HPD education and training to audiologists. MAJOR DUTIES INCLUDE: - Pursues and conducts innovative and fundamentally sound RDT&E of hearing enhancement and protection devices and strives for technical excellence among worldwide contemporaries. Conceives plans (milestones, funding, personnel, and schedule) and executes original multi-phased programs with multi-disciplinary teams regarding hearing protection, communication equipment, speech intelligibility, and functional hearing in complex sound fields. - Fosters an active network of technical experts in audiology/hearing conservation, occupational/environmental health and medicine, audio instrumentation, and acquisitions. Capitalizes on working relationships with senior executives, directors, managers, scientists, technicians, audiologists, and military customers to meet/exceed operational hearing conservation, hearing protection, and communication requirements. - Serves as a key member on military working groups related to occupational audiology, noise control, hearing protection, and hearing conservation. Works closely with interdisciplinary teams to develop critical directives and decisions on hearing-protection policies, procedures, and practices to ensure goals are met. QUALIFICATIONS: - Graduate degree in acoustics, physics, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, audiology, psychoacoustics, experimental psychology, or a related field. - Master's degree required. Ph.D. desirable. - Minimum 10 years of professional experience beyond the Bachelor's degree. - Publications related to hearing, the measurement/calibration of sound, or hearing-protection devices in refereed journals and laboratory technical reports also considered. Presentations at the meetings of national/international organizations. - Superb writing and speaking skills. - Ability to travel 10-20% of the time. - If graduate degree is not in audiology, will be required to complete a two-year part-time directed OJT course of study including formal coursework, self-study, and on-site observations of occupational, medical, and rehabilitative audiology. - If graduate degree is not in experimental science or engineering, will be required to complete a two-year part-time directed OJT course of study including formal coursework, self-study, and lab work on instrumentation, materials, experimental design, and advanced statistics. - U.S. citizenship required. CONTACT: Primary: Lynne Marshall, Ph.D. E-mail: lynne.marshall@xxxxxxxx Phone: 860-694-2550 Alternate: Paul Weathersby, Ph.D. E-mail: weathersbyp@xxxxxxxx