You will serve as a INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST in the Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval Health Clinic New England, Public Health Services of NMRTU PORTSMOUTH NH.

Duties

You will perform the duties encompassing all phases of the industrial hygiene program as specified by the Department of Defense, Department of Navy, and Bureau of Medicine and Surgery directives as well as the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. You will plan and conduct complete evaluations of work operations involving potential hazardous environmental conditions, analyzing findings, and recommending corrective measures and controls. You will prepare preliminary and final technical reports of studies, surveys, investigations and after laboratory sample analysis, incorporating into the report medical surveillance and engineering findings and recommendations. You will evaluate the need for quantitative assessment of air contamination: noise and other physical stressors as well as the quantitative assessment of ventilation systems.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• A pre-employment physical is required.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• This position is eligible for part time, substantial or ad-hoc telework at the discretion of management.
• Relocation incentives as described in 5 USC 5753 may be authorized in accordance with applicable regulations. PCS is not authorized.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position GS-11, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Researching, reviewing and inspecting lower hazard work environments (office, light industry) for work stressor hazards. Providing assessment of current conditions and making recommendations for improvements. Monitoring for workplace exposures with industrial hygiene monitoring equipment to include noise meters, sampling pumps and direct read instruments. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position GS-09, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Researching, reviewing and inspecting lower hazard work environments (office, light industry) for work stressor hazards. Assisting to provide assessment of current conditions and making recommendations for improvements. Assisting to monitor for workplace exposures with industrial hygiene monitoring equipment to include noise meters, sampling pumps and direct read instruments. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0600/industrial-hygiene-series-0690/

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess

Basic Requirements

The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (external link) at the time the degree was obtained. Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• 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 (external link) (ABIH).

Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable.Evaluation of Education

All science or engineering courses offered in fulfillment of the above requirements must be acceptable for credit toward the completion of a standard 4-year professional curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in science or engineering at an accredited college or university. For engineering degrees to be acceptable, the curriculum must be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) as a professional engineering curriculum.

Evaluation of Experience

Qualifying experience involves the recognition, evaluation, corrective actions, and elimination of environmental conditions in the workplace that causes sickness, impaired health, or illness. This experience must demonstrate a professional knowledge of the theory and application of the principles of industrial hygiene and closely related sciences such as physics and engineering controls.

Such work must have involved experience in all of the following areas: the acquisition of quantitative and qualitative data, and the measurement of exposures for a variety of chemical, physical, and biological stresses; the analysis of the data acquired and the prediction of probable effects of exposures on the health and well-being of workers; and the selection and recommendation of appropriate controls, including management, medical, engineering, education or training, and personal protective equipment.

Contacts

• Address NMRTU PORTSMOUTH NH Portsmouth Kittery, ME 03804 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]