You will serve as a INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST in the Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval Health Clinic New England of NMRTU PORTSMOUTH NH. This announcement uses the Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

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.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• Certain incentives (such as Recruitment and Relocation) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

Qualifications

GS-12: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience in industrial hygiene concepts, principles and practices, applicable to planning and carrying out all industrial hygiene programs and activities concerned with a wide variety of industrial sites and research laboratories. Experience investigating health problems to determine probable cause and recommend measures to minimize occupational health hazards. Experience developing a variety of control measures, including ventilation, shielding, material substitution, change in work procedures, isolation, education and personal protective devices and planning. Experience in evaluating proposed new work processes and/or materials and or recommending measures to minimize health hazards. Experience carrying out industrial hygiene inspections and surveys. GS-11: Your resume must 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: Experience in industrial hygiene concepts, principles and practices, applicable to planning and carrying out all industrial hygiene programs and activities concerned with a wide variety of industrial sites and research laboratories. Experience recognizing and evaluating occupational health hazards, including those for which the nature and extent of hazard is not completely understood. Experience in devising a variety of control measures, including ventilation, shielding, material substitution, change in work procedures, isolation, education, personal protective devices. Experience in evaluating proposed new work processes and/or materials and or recommending measures to minimize health hazards. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: General Schedule Qualification Standards (opm.gov) Industrial Hygiene Series 0690 (opm.gov) Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

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.

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:

FOR GS-11: SUCCESSFUL completion of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.M. if related

COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be combined to meet the total qualification requirements.

If you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume.

IF CLAIMING EDUCATION, FAILURE TO SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS/ITEMIZED LIST WILL RESULT IN AN INELIGIBLE RATING.

See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

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