You will serve as a HEALTH PHYSICIST in the Corporate Radiation Health Branch (CRH), Code 2360.8 of the Fleet Maintenance and Radiological Support Division (FMRSD), Code 2360, Nuclear Engineering and Planning Department, Code 2300 of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

You will develop and implement POA and Ms; and schedule, coordinate, evaluate, and execute projects. You will provide corporate consultation on matters involving assigned projects. You will identify and review applicable references in order to serve as a subject matter expert. You will coordinate design, development, implement, and maintain for complex analysis instrumentation and associated software and procedures for various types of routine and unusual radioactivity analyses. You will be responsible for coordinating resolution of radiation health, health physics and radioactive analysis issues associated with assigned projects to ensure an orderly and timely flow of information and productive efforts. You will represent the shipyard in dealing with outside activities in matters pertaining to their assigned projects and responsibilities. You will write procedures, letters and reports with minimal administrative and technical errors.

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.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• 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.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• This is a bargaining unit position.

Qualifications

GS-12: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also 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 administering and managing the Fleet Internal Monitoring and Large Item Verification Testing (IMVT/LIMVT) Program with KNOLLS Atomic Power Laboratory. - Experience advising medical facility administrators on existing or potential radiological conditions. - Experience Investigating, evaluating and recommending the incorporation of new technology for use by the NNPP. - Experience providing expert management of training for each of these distinctive courses. Management includes coordinating input and review from each site's Training Manager, conferring with the Corporate Science Advisor, and incorporation of the Radiation Health Model Program tenets and specific guidance stipulated from applicable references (e.g. NAVSEA 989-0288). GS-11: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, 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: - Experience understanding of the functions and objectives of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, Radiological Control Office, and Radiation Health Division. - Experience with operating principles of naval nuclear reactors and reactor systems. - Experience with theories, principles, standards, and applications of healthy physics and radiological controls. Including associated disciplines such as: mathematics, statistics, physics, nuclear physics, chemistry and biology. - Experience planning, directing, evaluating, and writing procedures to accomplish radioactivity analyses support for the shipyard and satellite locations. 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 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

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

1. Degree: natural science or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in health physics, engineering, radiological science, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and/or calculus.

   or

2. Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or other education; or certification as a health physicist by the American Board of Health Physics, plus appropriate experience and other education that provided an understanding of sciences applicable to health physics comparable to that described in paragraph A.
   
   AND
   
   GS-11 Substitution of Education for experience.
   
   3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
   
   A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience.

Contacts

• Address NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD NNSY Portsmouth, VA 23709 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]