A successful candidate in this position will serve as aIndustrial Hygienist providing expertise in the area of leading a team of safety professionals.

Duties

As a Industrial Hygienist you will: Provide guidance on health standards, criteria and ensure that appropriate consideration is given to occupational health matters in the plans and programs for the development of facilities, equipment, and procedures. Provide guidance or recommend action to eliminate or control health hazards by convincing management to initiate operational procedures or engineering procedures as in research, development, and test and evaluation efforts (e.g., those found in weapons and weapons systems). Develop methodology to ensure that contractor personnel have identified and adequately controlled those chemical, physical, and biological agents that pose a threat to personnel and the occupational environment. Prepare and maintain status reports of progress toward meeting industrial hygiene program objectives. Based on evaluations made from progress reported, determine where objectives are not being met and make recommendations to correct deficiencies Serve as Deputy AMESH managing a variety of safety and technical fields in accomplishing the work of the organization.

Requirements

Qualifications

A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower NNSA pay band level in the Federal Service, i.e. EN/NN/NQ-03 pay band. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Experience demonstrating ability to plan and execute various types of programs related to nuclear weapons. Experience serving on a team or supporting technical evaluations of contractor operational and implementation plans including in an industrial, nuclear, or non-nuclear facility. Experience evaluating operating systems, processes, formality of operations, material flows, waste streams, instruments/alarms, control room practices, maintenance and construction, quality assurance, safety, health, and environmental activities, design, construction, or operational activities. Experience making recommendations regarding planning, organizing, and coordinating programs. Experience Managing or performing oversight of hazardous facility operations and associated safety management programs. Your application and resume should demonstrate that you possess the following competencies. Do not provide a separate narrative written statement. Rather, you must describe in your application how your past work experience demonstrates that you possess the competencies. identified below. Cite specific examples of employment or experience contained in your resume and describe how this experience has prepared you to successfully perform the duties of this position. DO NOT write "see resume" in your application! Compliance InspectionLeadershipOral CommunicationTechnical Competence "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills; and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement. CTAP candidates: To be considered "well qualified" you must meet all of the requirements as described in this section.

Education

All applicants must meet the basic requirement of the Industrial Hygiene occupational series. Transcripts or other proof of required education must be included in application package.

Education requirement:

• A bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related science; or
• A bachelor's degree in a branch of engineering, physical science, or life science that included 12 semester hours in chemistry, including organic chemistry, and 18 additional semester hours of courses in any combination of chemistry, physics, engineering, health physics, environmental health, biostatistics, biology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, or industrial hygiene; or
• Certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

EDUCATION: Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants who have completed part or all of their education outside of the U.S. must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. A written evaluation of any foreign education must be provided with your application in response to this vacancy announcement or be received by the closing date of this announcement. Failure to provide this evaluation will result in you being found unqualified for the position. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see the Department of Education website, and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services.

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
**If you are selected, official transcripts will be required.

**FOREIGN EDUCATION: Applicants who have completed part or all of their education outside of the U.S. must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. A written evaluation of any foreign education must be provided with your application in response to this vacancy announcement or be received by the closing date of this announcement. Failure to provide this evaluation will result in you being found unqualified for the position. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see the Department of Education website, and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. Please Note: If your foreign education has already been accepted by an accredited U.S. educational institution as part of a degree program with that institution, you do not need to provide an evaluation of foreign education but must submit a copy of the transcripts listing the degree from the U.S. accredited institution that accepted your foreign education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Contacts

• Address NNSA - Livermore Field Office 24600 20th St SE Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5507 US
• Name: Shannon Jones
• Email: [email protected]