INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer. Salary information is listed in the Additional Information section.

GS-12: 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: as a professional industrial hygienist, developing criteria, procedures, or instructions to resolve problems involving health hazards to ensure compliance with applicable regulations for the occupational health and safety of shipyard personnel.

Examples of qualifying specialized experience may include: responsibility for programs where workers are exposed to the wide variety of hazards including; chemical, physical, biological; conducting industrial hygiene sampling using; photoionization detectors, gas detectors, air sampling pumps, noise dosimetry, velocity meters, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation monitors, or other state of the art monitoring equipment.

GS-11: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-9) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional industrial hygienist, conducting surveys or investigations of shipyard work operations to identify and evaluate conditions that may be hazardous to the occupational health and safety of personnel.

Examples of qualifying specialized experience may include conducting surveys or investigations of the following: Chemical exposures and/or overexposures; Noise exposures and/or overexposures; Equipment and/or machine operations; Environmental conditions; Work practices; and Protective equipment.

GS-9: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-7) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional Industrial Hygienist, performing surveys, sampling, and writing technical reports to evaluate health hazards in industrial shops or similar areas where the types of health hazards are anticipated.

Examples may include the following: Chemical exposures and/or overexposures; Noise exposures and/or overexposures and Protective equipment.

GS-7: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-5) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional Industrial Hygienist, calibrating equipment, taking samples, and preparing reports to assist with the evaluation of health hazards in industrial shops or similar areas workplaces where the types of health hazards are known.

Examples may include the following: Chemical exposures and/or overexposures; Noise exposures and/or overexposures and Protective equipment.

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. Major Duties:

• You will effectively manage two or more major occupational health programs, such as asbestos, hearing conservation, paint, respiratory protection, toxic metals or ventilation.
• You will prepare and issue procedures, instructions and other guidance concerning industrial health programs and related stressors.
• You will plan, direct or conduct detailed surveys and investigations related to the recognition, evaluation and control of industrial health hazards for specific programs.
• You will be a professional liaison with the industrial hygienists of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Command and other Naval Shipyards to coordinate efforts to implement industrial health protections of the Shipyard workforce.
• You will conduct inspections of worksites to observe work practices and environmental conditions for hazards to health and safety, and to detect violations of published health standards.
• You will evaluate the adequacy of controls for health hazards in initial and final plans and specifications for facility construction, alteration and repair, as well as modification or relocation of processes.