Clarification from the agency

Washington Air National Guard Permanent Indefinite Employees. Washington Air National Guard Traditional Guard members and Washington National Guard Active Guard Reserves (AGR). All other current military members willing to become Washington Air National Guard members.

A GS-0690-11, INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST:

• Acts as the technical expert and advisor to Wing leadership on all issues pertaining to the above directives.
• Researches industrial operations and develops, implements, and executes surveillance strategies, inspections and evaluations of operational facilities and various activities to detect and eliminate health hazards.
• Executes appropriate methods and techniques of surveys.
• Performs base wide no-notice, spot, and special inspections of operational facilities and worksites when statistical analyses and conditions dictate need, when new equipment is to be installed, and/or when hazardous conditions exist.
• Identifies potential physical, biological, and chemical health hazards in the workplace; evaluates exposure to workers, and prescribes corrective measures which may include changing work processes/procedures, adding/modifying engineering systems, making chemical substitutions, or using personal protective equipment.
• In the case of serious or acute conditions, chronic illnesses, etc., performs follow-up interviews and provides professional guidance to the affected or involved employee(s), physician(s), hospital/clinic, and supervisor(s) to prevent future similar situations.
• Documents findings using complex inter-relational data basing systems.
• Determines and assigns Risk Assessment Code (RAC) to health hazards.
• Manages and assesses installation environmental sampling, analysis and monitoring requirements, and performs ambient, source and substance tests and monitoring.
• Compiles and evaluates pollution emission inventories to include air, waste water and hazardous materials/wastes.
• Interprets Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for employees, management and other health professionals, and maintains the base master MSDS file.
• Provides education concerning MSDS's to new and existing employees.
• Interfaces with manufactures of hazardous materials in order to obtain the most current health hazard information available for chemicals located at each installation.
• Authorizes, reviews, and validates new hazardous material issued on AF Form 3952, Chemical Hazardous Material Request/Authorization.
• Identifies low level less hazardous substitutes through expert chemical and process knowledge.
• Reviews and approves issues related to hazardous material including personal protective equipment (PPE) and disposal requirements.
• Acts as the technical health expert and advisor to Wing leadership on issues pertaining to the Hazardous Materials Management Plan (HMMP) and other pertinent issues.
• Serves as the program manager that ensures installation compliance with OSHA confined space standards.
• Researches, formulates, and implements workplace air sampling strategy; performs air sampling surveys and evaluates results.
• Evaluates existing controls and determines and prescribes corrective measures to management such as implementation of administrative or engineering controls and/or use of personal protective equipment.
• Briefs installation leadership and management committees on survey results that have a potential positive/adverse impact, and provides expert technical advice on plans and correction.
• Researches needs and conducts sound/decibel tests in facilities or other areas where potential over exposures to noise may exist, such as machine shops.
• Analyzes and implements appropriate engineering and/or administrative/procedural controls.
• Recommends personal protective equipment where excessive noise is evident.
• Ensures respiratory protection device chosen will provide proper protection against hazard identified.
• Controls issue of respiratory protective devices in coordination with installation base supply.
• Authorizes issue of respiratory protection for specific industrial processes and ensures respirator users are quantitatively fit tested.
• The water vulnerability assessment includes formal written assessment of the potential risks associated with each base.
• Notifies base populace and state regulators when standards are exceeded, and provides advice regarding follow-up health/safety actions that should/must be taken.
• Reviews and provides input to the installation Environmental Engineer regarding federal and state environmental permit applications.
• Ensures accuracy and completeness of radioactive material permits before forwarding to the USAF and state regulatory agencies.
• Participates in planning and implementation of the Full Spectrum Threat Response (FSTR) cell, for control of real world and exercise incidents.
• Provides input to the base security vulnerability assessment plan. Responds to actual disasters or exercises.
• Principal expert and advisor to on-scene commander on chemical, biological, and nuclear materials and recommends personal protection equipment requirements.
• Manages the base Quantitative Fit Test (QNFT) program.
• Identifies, tests, and trains base personnel requiring the issue of chemical warfare gas masks.
• Other duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

MILITARY REQUIREMENTS:

Military Grades: E1 (AB) - E7 (MSgt)

Desired Military Assignments: 4B071 Desired

- Applicants need not be assigned to the position or possess the AFSC to apply or be considered for selection. Selected applicant must be assigned to a compatible Military position and attain AFSC within 1 year of appointment action.

- Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.

- Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

- Must maintain membership in the WA Air National Guard for continued employment.

- Must have a valid state driver's license for the state in which they live or are principally employed.

- Must possess or be able to obtain a SECRET clearance within one year of appointment.

- This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.

- Position requires ability to establish effective professional working relationships with coworkers and customers, contributing to a cooperative working environment and successful accomplishment of the mission.

- May occasionally be required to work other than normal duty hours; overtime may be required.

- The duties and responsibilities of your job may significantly impact the environment. You are responsible to maintain awareness of your environmental responsibilities as dictated by legal and regulatory requirements, your organization, and its changing mission.

- "This position is designated as Essential Personnel and may be subject to duty in preparation for, or in response to, a state emergency or disaster declaration. This designation will not exceed 14 calendar days per year unless otherwise approved in advance by the TAG."

Qualifications

GENERAL EXPERIENCE:

Experience, education, or training which provided a basic knowledge of principles and practices related to the health care delivery system.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
Must have at least 36 months of experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Applicant must have 1-year equivalent specialized experience to at least GS-09.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. You may also be excluded from consideration if you indicate that you are unwilling to accept the lower grade and a determination is made that you are not qualified at the higher grade. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.

Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to position descriptions, as well as the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered. In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed above. Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained. This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics). NOTE: You do not have to respond to the KSA's separately but your resume should contain sufficient information to demonstrate possession of the KSA's.

• Knowledge and skills applicable to performance of a wide range of industrial hygiene duties, including survey, detection, evaluation, and sampling/testing techniques and related control measures for a variety of potential workplace-related health hazards. This includes performance of highly complex computations and application of theory and formulas representative of a wide variety of tests and reporting responsibilities that is typical of the scientific requirements of the industrial hygiene profession.
• Knowledge of OSHA, AFOSH, EPA, and other federal laws and related programs, and of DoD, USAF, and ANG regulations, policies and procedures related to industrial hygiene, occupational health, and bioenvironmental engineering.
• Knowledge of a broad range of administrative and managerial principles/ procedures, conventional methods, and techniques sufficient to independently plan, implement, evaluate, and manage the assigned ANG IH/BEE program.
• Knowledge of technical installation work processes/operations and equipment relative to their effect on the health and efficiency of employees working in machine shops, warehouses, on aircraft parking areas, and in adjacent office areas, etc.
• Knowledge of and ability to isolate and identify a variety of chemical agents; physical agents; biological agents; and ergonomic factors, involving body positions and repetitious motion, etc.
• Knowledge required to direct or recommend alternative controls, approaches, and/or protective devices relative to the prevention or correction of harmful exposures and/or hazardous findings.
• Knowledge of USAF/ATSDR activities and requirements in order to act as the local point of contact and program coordinator.