You will serve as a Industrial Hygienist in the Industrial Hygiene Program Office (IHPO) NMRTC CHERRY POINT NC, Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of NMRTC CHERRY POINT NC. This announcement uses the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD / Modified Direct Hire Authority 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.
• A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.
• In accordance with BUMED INST 6220.9B, this position has a mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination requirement and is therefore subject to annual seasonal influenza vaccinations and a signed (Condition of employment) consenting to such.

Qualifications

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 performing industrial hygiene inspections, surveys and evaluations to monitor and assess work practices to identify violations of published health standards. Experience devising control measures such as ventilation, shielding, material substitution, change in work procedures, and personal protective devices to ensure personnel safety and avoid occupational health hazards. Experience utilizing industrial sampling instrumentation, sampling strategies, and techniques to recognize and evaluate air contamination, noise and other physical stressors. Experience preparing and presenting detailed reports of industrial hygiene survey findings of hazards and exposures and recommending control measures and monitoring plans to correct deficiencies. GS-09: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 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 assisting with evaluating work center operations for work stressor hazards. Experience conducting routine investigations of work environments for occupational health hazards and exposures and make reports of inspections for review. Experience monitoring workplace exposures with industrial hygiene monitoring equipment to include noise meters, sampling pumps and direct read instruments for routine inspections. Experience assisting with investigating work-related health problems to determine probable cause or exposure and using industrial hygiene measures for corrective action. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: 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

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 a Ph.D. degree;

FOR GS-09: SUCCESSFUL completion of a Master's or equivalent graduate degree; OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree;

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 NMRTC CHERRY POINT NC PSC Box 8023 Cherry Point, NC 28533-0023 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]