Careers

Description:

MajorDuties

• You will apply industrial hygiene principles to control occupational health hazards associated with shipyard industrial work situations.
• You will act as the PSNS point of contact (POC) for matters concerning the program(s) managed, including speaking for PSNS at meetings with the civilian and military workforce and off station representatives from OPNA V and NAVSEA.
• You will analyze accident and injury reports to discover trends, and mishap causes to develop recommendations for reducing or eliminating the hazards.
• You will be responsible for data processing, review, and analysis as necessary to ensure program-related reports are accurate and portrayed for outside departments to easily understand.
• You will review and provide comments, technical guidance for a wide variety of local and higher authority instructions, procedures, and regulations (e.g., Uniform Industrial Process Instructions, Industrial Process Instructions, and etc.)

Skills/Eligibility:

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual. Applicants must possess for the GS-0690, Industrial Hygiene Series: A. 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 B. 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 C. Certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene(external link) (ABIH). Applicants must possess for the GS-0893, Chemical Engineer Series: A. Degree: Engineering.