Industrial Hygienist

**Duties**:

- Serves as a national focal point and provides technical guidance and expertise to national management, other program/project managers within the agency, other Government agencies, contract service firms, and contract consultant firms. Technical expertise and guidance requires highly technical judgment concerning industrial hygiene, safety, and exposure risk management where the situations encountered are frequently without precedent.
- Maintain awareness of the latest developments in industrial hygiene and related disciplines by reviewing technical publications, attending technical conferences or professional society meetings, and discussions with industry representatives in which discussions are of national significance or are of outstanding importance to the agency. Evaluates new technology and recommends adoption of those that would improve efficiency, safety and risk management. Evaluates the impact of proposed and changed regulations. Maintain licensing and accreditation required by regulatory authorities as necessary to perform project oversight and field surveys in related disciplines (e.g., Certified Industrial Hygienist or Certified Safety Professional).
- Provides technical recommendations in support of construction project and service contract administration, and makes recommendations to project managers, program managers and contracting officers concerning contract modifications. Prepares cost estimates for industrial hygiene and safety procedures and protocols based on expert knowledge of EHS requirements, design, construction, and contract administration.
- Applies a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess and improve program effectiveness and complex management processes, projects and systems. Reviews specific goals and objectives; monitors sequence and timing of key program events and milestones and evaluates overall program accomplishments and significant contributions in terms of agency goals.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- US Citizens and National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
- Meet all eligibility criteria within 30 days of the closing date
- Register with Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959

**If selected, you must meet the following conditions**:

- **Current or Former Political Appointees**: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or NonCareer SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this information could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
- Serve a one year probationary period, if required.
- Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 2 investigation level).
- Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security’s e-Verify system for this. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment.

**Qualifications**:
**For each job on your resume, provide**:

- the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year)
- number of hours per week you worked (if part time).

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The GS- 13 salary range starts at $103,409 per year. If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected.

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 (courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable). For engineering degrees to be acceptable, the curriculum must be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) as a professional engineering curriculum;
**OR**

C) a certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH).

**In addition to the Basic Requirements listed above,** you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-**12** in the Federal service.

**Specialized experience** is defined as independently conducting surveys/inspections based upon compliance with OSHA and EPA regulations including on-site federally-owned and leased space, and environmental sampling (quantitative and qualitative) in order to evaluate chemical, p