You will serve as a INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST in the Dir Preventive Medicine, Expeditionary Platforms Department of NAVY-MARINE CORPS PUB HLTH CEN. This announcement uses the Expansion of Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

Duties

You will reviews, analyses, evaluates, and interprets current force health protection requirements, anticipate future requirements, and makes appropriate recommendations. You will serve as the Navy's recognized professional expert and program manager for Navy-wide industrial hygiene programs, in general, and chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Energy Explosives (CBRNE). You will reviews human health and environmental risk assessments for completeness, scientific validity, and regulatory compliance and develops specific risk communication strategies. You will coordinates with Navy FDPMU managers, CBRE team leaders, Mobile Preventive Medicine Teams and acts as a consultant to Naval Medical Facilities (MTFs) worldwide. You will prepares and delivers formal and informal training and presentations on health communication techniques, public health involvement for DON installations and other government agencies.

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.
• During field investigations, work may involve long periods of standing, climbing, wearing protective clothing and equipment, entering confined or enclosed spaces, and working in various industrial and potentially hazardous environments.
• Some overnight travel is required to attend meetings, conduct program reviews and field investigations.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: ALL 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. Must provide transcripts with application, failure to do so will rate as ineligible. 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. In addition meeting to the Basic Requirements for this position, Industrial Hygienist, GS-0690-13, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Developing, implementing and managing industrial hygiene and occupational health programs and policy objectives, (industrial hygiene standards of practice including public health, environmental health, environmental toxicology, environmental engineering, occupational safety, and occupational health); Performing human health risk assessments, (i.e., reviewing installation restoration program documents to ensure that sample collection and data analysis are adequate to perform human health risk assessments); Planning and directing worldwide support of field portable analytical equipment/instrument/ analyzer (FPAE), a complex mix of chemical, biological, and radiological identification and quantification instrument technologies; Reviewing human health and environmental risk assessments for completeness, scientific validity, and regulatory compliance and develops specific risk communication strategies to convey the results and meaning of health and environmental risk assessments to the public; Recommends course of action to provide rapid response support in a variety of contingency situations including wartime mobilization, and natural disasters; Evaluating and determining correct organizational structure training requirements, material and equipment needs and operational readiness in order to execute mission functions; AND Maintaining open communication diverse groups and personnel, (e.g., Navy FDPMU managers, CBRE team leaders, Mobile Preventive Medicine Teams and acts as a consultant to Naval Medical Facilities (MTFs) worldwide), by responding to requests for technical information, advice about biological, toxicological, radiological or physical characteristics of contaminants; occupational health, safety and public health issues; standard practices; and best available technology. 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=GS-PROF. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0600/industrial-hygiene-series-0690/ 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

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

Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

A Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related science that was accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time my degree was obtained. (Note - Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable)

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. The degree was accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time my degree was obtained. (Note - Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable). OR

Certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (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.

Foreign Education: Required for vacancies with Positive Education or Education Substitution: 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/officies/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address NAVY-MARINE CORPS PUB HLTH CEN 620 John Paul Jones Cir Portsmouth, VA 23708 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]