You will serve as a HEALTH PHYSICIST in the Radiation Health Division (Code 105.5), Radiological Control Office (Code 105), Regional Maintenance Department of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

You will design, develop, implement, and maintain complex dosimetry processing instrumentation and associated software and procedures for various types of routine and unusual dosimetry occurrences. You will provide direction, oversight, troubleshooting, and technical assistance for all instrumentation use and problem resolution. You will maintain complex analysis instrumentation, associated software and procedures for various types of routine and unusual radioactivity analyses. You will investigate, resolve, document, and review circumstances surrounding unusual health physics occurrences. You will conduct research projects and submit official correspondence with recommendations to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on important health physics topics. You will collect routine and special environmental samples, analyze the data, review for trends, and develop reports for NAVSEA, BUMED, State and Federal requirements. You will compile and examine analysis data to determine trends and demonstrate equipment performance consistency. You will perform complex functions and calculations to determine the actual or anticipate consequences of radiological emergencies and determine the appropriate action to minimize the magnitude; counsel personnel on health risks involved.

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
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• 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 successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 requires that the selectee be willing and able to climb ladders and scaffolding.
• This position requires that the selectee be willing and able to lift and/or carry loads/items up to 60 pounds in weight.

Qualifications

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 understanding the functions and objectives of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, Radiological Control Office, and Radiation Health Division. Experience understanding the operating principles of naval nuclear reactors and reactor systems. Experience implementing the knowledge of theories, principles, standards, and applications of health physics and radiological controls, including knowledge of associated disciplines such as: mathematics, statistics, physics, nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology. Experience applying theories, principles, technical applications of radiation dosimetry, radioactivity analysis, environmental monitoring, radiation safety, and emergency response and the ability to adapt this knowledge to a complex industrial radiation health program. Experience assembling medical records, laboratory tests, and examination results and extracting pertinent information from these results to complete necessary forms and logs. 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 Health Physics Series 1306 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.
   
   Transcripts must be provided.

Contacts

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