The position is located in the Occupational Health Medicine Department of the Fleet Medicine Directorate located at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) in North Chicago, Illinois. The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is larger than just a single facility; it is a system of facilities throughout Northeastern Illinois which provides medical and dental services to U.S. Military Veterans, Recruits, Active Duty and eligible beneficiaries.

Duties

The purpose of this position is to identify, evaluate, and control workplace health hazards at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, and Naval and Marine Corps locations and activities. This is accomplished by monitoring employees' exposures to a variety of chemical and physical health hazards using specialized instruments such as air sampling pumps, sound level meters, noise dosimeters, heat stress monitors, and dust, gas, and vapor monitors, assessing ventilation systems, performing laboratory analysis such as identifying asbestos in building materials and counting fibers in air samples, and keeping detailed records. A variety of additional IH functions may be performed, such as providing technical assistance to FHCC and Naval and Marine Corps activities, and assessing the status of recommended abatement actions. The Environmental Health Technician participates as a team member with Industrial Hygienists when conducting large and complex assessments, but may work independently at activities where work processes are more limited in size and complexity. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM Monday - Friday Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Environmental Health Technician/PD06516A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/01/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-08 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. For a GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-08. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Environmental Health Technician Series, 0698 Individual Occupational Requirements Specialized Experience(for positions at GS-4 and above): Experience that involved identifying, preventing, or eliminating health hazards in one or more areas of environmental health. Such experience must have provided a practical knowledge of environmental health hazards, survey techniques, and control and eradication methods, and may have been gained in work such as biological technician, medical technician, pest control technician, quality control positions with dairy or food service industries, or environmental health worker. Journey level experience in a trade or craft may be credited as specialized experience when the work was closely associated with and provided the required knowledge of environmental health techniques, methods, and skills, e.g., pest control operator, water plant operator. ou may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience GS-08: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, GS-07, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience in exposure monitoring and sampling; knowledgeable in industrial hygiene concepts, principles, and practices; experience in using industrial hygiene equipment. Specialized Experience GS-09: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, GS-08, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience in identifying, evaluating and controlling workplace health hazards; knowledge in providing technical assistance to and assessing the status of recommended abatement actions; knowledgeable in using specialized instruments such as air sampling pumps, sound level meters, noise dosimeters, heat stress monitors, and dust, gas, and vapor monitors. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:Computer SkillsMeasuring InstrumentsPlanning and EvaluatingTeaching OthersTechnical Competence Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Industrial hygiene monitoring surveys are frequent and require the Environmental Health Technician to carry moderately heavy equipment. Such surveys may also involve standing, walking, bending, and climbing. Some travel outside of Illinois is required. He/she must pass a respirator physical qualification examination, and will be enrolled in the hearing conservation and asbestos medical surveillance programs, if so recommended by the FHCC Occupational Health Physician or equivalent healthcare provider. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Notes:

• Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

• Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required above GS-5 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position. One full year of graduate education meets the requirements for GS-7. Two full years of graduate education or a master's degree meets the requirements for GS-9. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended.

Contacts

• Address Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center 3001 Green Bay Road North Chicago, IL 60064 US
• Name: Jeffrey Harvey
• Phone: (515) 372-4919
• Email: [email protected]