The position is in the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Operations Directorate, Office of Safety Health and Environmental Management Division assigned to Technical Operations Support (OBO/OPS/SHEM/TOS). TOS oversees and directs the planning, management and implementation of a comprehensive safety, health, and environmental management program for Department of State and other Federal personnel within 18,000 facilities including over 260 overseas embassies and consulates worldwide.

Duties

Serves as senior Industrial Hygienist assigned to the Technical Operations Support Division exercising authority on a wide range of field-related safety, health, and environmental management issues. Eliminates and/or controls occupational health hazards to include the prevention and correction of potential health hazards. Advises top management on industrial hygiene, occupational safety and environmental field matters providing interface with pertinent program offices. Provides advisories and recommendations on critical industrial hygiene issues that significantly impact agency policies or programs. Conducts safety, health, and environmental site assessments of overseas posts and mentors others in conducting assessments. Evaluates overseas construction projects to ensure that newly constructed or renovated facilities meet applicable, industrial hygiene, environmental and safety requirements.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Incumbent will be subject to random drug testing.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
• Requires a financial disclosure statement, OGE-450.
• Medical clearance is required.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. If you are qualifying based on education OR if there are mandatory education requirements listed below, you MUST submit a copy of your college transcript with your application.  NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. Applicants MUST meet the required basic entry qualification requirements described below. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: a. 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, b. 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, c. 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 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) 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. Note: All applicants MUST submit transcripts as verification of educational requirement by the closing date of this announcement. If you fail to provide requested information or the information you submit is insufficient to verify your eligibility, you WILL lose consideration for this position. IN ADDITION to meeting one of the basic qualifications requirements listed above, the applicant MUST have at least 1 full year of specialized experience that has equipped them with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience in the application of Industrial Hygiene, or Consumer Safety, concepts, principles and methods to solve legislative, regulatory or scientific developments. Experience providing consultative services to management and/or technical personnel on occupational safety, health and environmental concerns specific to overseas construction projects. Experience managing a worldwide field program to prevent the introduction of new safety, health, or environmental hazards. 

Education

See the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements.

Contacts

• Address U.S. Department of State 1999 Dyess Ave. Charleston Reg. Ctr., E119B Charleston, South Carolina 29405 United States
• Name: Tracey A. Leath
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]