This position is for a INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE TECHNICIAN, PD# D0814000, part of the Nevada Air National Guard. The purpose of this position is to plan, schedule, execute, manage, and administer the Industrial Hygiene/Bioenvironmental Engineering IH/BEE Program, which includes occupational health/industrial hygiene, radiation safety, and environmental monitoring to maintain and promote the health and wellbeing of military and technician personnel.

Duties

-- Ensures statutory and regulatory compliance with applicable OSHA and AFOSH directives. Serves as an advisor concerning OSHA, the EPA, the NRC, and US Air Force on installation health matters, such as health hazard identification, evaluation and abatement; workplace surveillance; industrial casefile documentation; IEX; asbestos abatement; lead-based paint; ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; TLD; air emissions; drinking water; wastewater discharges; hazardous wastes; ATSDR activities; pesticide use; environmental noise; environmental assessment; environmental sampling; and other environmental monitoring. -- Surveys, inspects, and evaluates operational facilities and various activities to eliminate health hazards. Determines appropriate survey methods and techniques. Performs no-notice, spot and special inspections of operational facilities and shops when statistical analyses and conditions dictate need. -- Reviews plans for new and existing facilities construction projects. Ensures applicable OSHA, AFOSH, EPA criteria are incorporated, and where deficiencies are noted, recommends appropriate changes to facilities' environments that would assure integration of occupational/environmental health and industrial hygiene controls to prevent adverse health and environmental impact. -- Assesses installation environmental sampling, analysis and monitoring requirements, and performs ambient, source and substance monitoring. Compiles pollution emission inventories to include air, wastewater and hazardous materials/wastes. -- Directs, implements, and manages the installation AF Hazard Communication Standard as mandated by OSHA. Interprets MSDS for employees, management and other health professionals, and maintains the base master MSDS file. Interfaces with manufacturers of hazardous materials in order to obtain the most current health hazard information available. Assists in preparing hazardous materials inventories and operating instructions. -- Authorizes IEX Code for hazardous or toxic substances. Researches an item's composition and toxicity, and instructs Base Supply concerning IEX code assignment for substances. Periodically reviews and authenticates master listing of all hazardous or toxic substances used on the installation. -- Monitors the receipt and disposal of radioactive materials. Performs leak tests of incoming and outgoing materials, takes swipe samples of radioactive waste, and documents results. Approves transfer and shipment of radioactive materials. -- Serves as Base Radiation Safety Officer for radio frequency radiation, ionizing radiation, and laser radiation. -- Ensures installation compliance with the OSHA confined space standard. Evaluates the areas to determine hazards. Develops local controls and procedures for personnel entry into confined spaces. Reviews and approves entry permits, and provides training as needed. -- Formulates workplace air sampling strategy, performs air sampling, and analyzes results. Evaluates existing controls, and prescribes authorized corrective measures to management, such as implementation of administrative or engineering controls and/or use of personal protective equipment. -- Assesses use of and prescribes personal respiratory protection for installation personnel based on air sampling results and professional judgment. Ensures cartridge chosen will provide protection against hazard identified. Authorizes issue of respiratory protection for specific industrial processes. -- Conducts noise surveys before commencement of new operations or work processes, and conducts periodic sound/decibel tests in facilities or other areas where potential overexposure to noise may exist, such as machine shops, compressor rooms, aircraft parking ramps, and adjacent office/shop areas, etc. -- Manages the base drinking water surveillance program, ensuring full compliance with all aspects of the EPA SDWA. Determines requirements, develops sampling strategies, and coordinates exchange of data with the consumers, Civil Engineering, local potable water providers and state regulators. -- Contracts with consultant professional industrial hygienists on a semi-annual and as deemed necessary basis, to provide assistance and advice and/or to perform such processes as very complex testing, analysis, and evaluations involving release quantity calculations, or application of radiation physics formulas and advanced theory to do hazard distance measurements, etc. -- Advises on ergonomics in the workplace. Surveys work sites to evaluate compliance with the most current practices and to determine if there are work practices which could cause cumulative trauma disorders. -- Reviews and provides input to the installation Environmental Engineer regarding federal and state environmental permit applications.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Education requirement is based upon the qualification standards for the specific position and is stated under the heading "EDUCATION". Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific in describing your experience. EACH APPLICANT MUST FULLY SUBSTANTIATE (IN THEIR OWN WORDS) THAT THEY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE LISTED BELOW; OTHERWISE, THE APPLICANT WILL BE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED FOR THIS POSITION. DO NOT COPY FROM THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OR THE POSITION DESCRIPTION OR YOU MAY BE DISQUALIFIED. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must display any type of work that demonstrates the applicant's ability to perform the work of an Industrial Hygiene Technician, or show any experience that provided a familiarity with the subject matter or processes of the broad subject area of this occupation. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have specialized experience equivalent to at least a GS-08 that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of an Industrial Hygiene Technician, and that is typically in, or related to, the work of the position to be filled.

Education

There is no specific education requirement for this position. The applicant's record of experience and/or training must show possession of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position.

You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Training/Educational claims. To receive credit for Training/Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Training/Education requirements for this position.

Contacts

• Address NV 152 MEG GP FBGF 1776 National Guard Way Reno, NV 89502-4494 US
• Name: Catherine Grush
• Phone: 775-788-4501
• Email: [email protected]