INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST

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You will work as a Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) industrial hygienist. | You will conduct industrial hygiene surveys to assess personnel exposures to chemical, physical and biological agents; provide recommendations for their reduction or elimination; recommend controls and enrollment in specific surveillance programs. | You will plan and conduct complete evaluations of industrial work operations at a naval shipyard and other installations within the area of responsibility. | You will assist in the preparation of written workplace monitoring plans, collecting exposure monitoring data, and updating the plans as necessary. | You will prepare exposure monitoring reports. | You will work within the DOEHRS-IH ecosystem to manage IH program responsibilities, including but not limited to documenting shops, processes, Similar Exposure Groups (SEGs), and samples.

GS-11:
Your resume must also 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 utilizing industrial hygiene concepts, principles and practices, applicable to planning and carrying out all industrial hygiene programs concerned with a wide variety of industrial sites and research laboratories.
• Experience applying knowledge required to recognize and evaluate occupational health hazards, including those for which the nature and extent of hazard is not completely understood.
• Experience devising a variety of control measures, including ventilation, shielding, material substitution, change in work procedures, isolation, education, and personal protective equipment.
• Experience applying knowledge required to recognize and evaluate proposed new work processes and/or materials and or recommend measures to minimize health hazards.
• Experience using DOEHRS-IH and making statistical exposure assessments is preferred.
• Experience with AIHA's Exposure Risk Assessment & Management Tools is preferred.
• Registration as an AIHA Exposure Decision Analysis specialist is preferred.

GS-09:
Your resume must also 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:

• Utilizing knowledge of industrial hygiene concepts, principles, and practices, applicable to planning and carrying out all industrial hygiene programs for Navy and Marine Corps activities concerned with a wide variety of industrial sites and research laboratories.
• Recognizing and evaluating occupational health hazards.
• Experience recognizing and evaluating occupational health hazards.
• Experience evaluating proposed new work processes and/or materials and or recommend measures to minimize health hazards.
• Experience collecting industrial hygiene samples and utilizing industrial hygiene sampling equipment.

GS-07:
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Utilizing knowledge of industrial hygiene concepts, principles, and practices.
• Recognizing occupational health hazards.
• Devising a variety of control measures, including ventilation, shielding, material substitution, change in work procedures, isolation, education, personal protective devices.
• Evaluating new work processes.

GS-05:
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-04 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Utilizing professional knowledge of industrial hygiene concepts, principles, and practices, applicable to planning and carrying out all industrial hygiene programs for Navy and Marine Corps activities concerned with a wide variety of industrial sites and research laboratories.
• Recognizing and evaluating occupational health hazards, including those for which the nature and extent of hazard is not completely understood.
• Devising a variety of control measures, including ventilation, shielding, material substitution, change in work procedures, isolation, education, personal protective devices.

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/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.

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 Board for Global EHS Credentialing (formerly American Board of Industrial Hygiene(external link) (ABIH)).

Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable.

GS-11: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
GS-09: 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree.
GS-07: 1 year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement.

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. | 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. | 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. | Incumbent must be immunized on an annual basis against influenza. | 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. | You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.