Industrial Hygienist

Duties

WHAT IS THE (FMSS) FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY SERVICES DIVISION?

A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

(3) Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:

Facilities Management and Security Services Business Solutions

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.

• Provides program direction by preparing instructions and issuing directives to formulate policy, establish objectives, provide procedural guidance, and assign responsibilities to subordinate and other offices for participation in the occupational health and safety program.

• Provides guidance on health standards, criteria, and types of reasonable accommodation and ensures that appropriate consideration is given to occupational health matters by the Health & Safety Committee.

• Provides guidance or recommends action to eliminate or control health hazards by convincing management to initiate new operational procedures. Advises top management on occupational health and safety issues.

• Represents the Service's Occupational Health and Safety program in intra- and inter-agency meetings involving policy matters related to occupational health, and coordinates programs with other Federal agencies.

• Maintains liaison with all functions within the Service to identify emerging trends in the workplace that impact upon workplace safety.

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD):

PD95876

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• Telework Eligible Positions: Telework eligible positions do not guarantee telework.
  
  Employees must meet and sustain IRS telework eligibility requirements (e.g., reporting at least twice a pay period to your assigned Post of Duty (POD)) and supervisor's approval to participate in the IRS Telework Program. Employees must also be within a 200-mile radius of their official assigned post-of-duty (POD) while in a telework status. As a reminder

• If you are selected for a position, you are responsible for reporting to your designated POD (location) on the negotiated start date or as directed by management.

• A 1-year probationary period is required (unless already completed).

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service.

One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:

BASIC REQUIREMENT: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher 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 American Board of Industrial Hygiene ABIH Certification (http://abih.org/maintain-certification%20(ABIH).) *Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable. The applicant education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.

Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained All science or engineering courses offered in fulfillment of the above requirements must be acceptable for credit toward the completion of a standard 4-year professional curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in science or engineering at an accredited college or university. 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-14 LEVEL:

To be eligible for this position at this grade level, you must meet the following requirements. In addition to the basic requirements, you must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:

Demonstrates at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Implementing worker safety and health programs, recommending measures to eliminate and/or control occupational health hazards to meet federal, state, local, and agency regulatory requirements.

Providing technical advice during investigations of alleged violations of worker health and safety requirements; Evaluating results of investigations and preparing technical assessments, making recommendations for abatement actions, enforcement actions, or policy changes. Qualifying experience involves the recognition, evaluation, corrective actions, and elimination of environmental conditions in the workplace that causes sickness, impaired health, or illness. This experience must demonstrate a professional knowledge of the theory and application of the principles of industrial hygiene and closely related sciences such as physics and engineering controls. Such work must have involved experience in all of the following areas: the acquisition of quantitative and qualitative data, and the measurement of exposures for a variety of chemical, physical, and biological stresses; the analysis of the data acquired and the prediction of probable effects of exposures on the health and well-being of workers; and the selection and recommendation of appropriate controls, including management, medical, engineering, education or training, and personal protective equipment.

AND

MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible.

To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.

AND

TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".

For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.

If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series. A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S.

Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements.

You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.

Additional information

• We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies. Additional jobs may be filled.

• The salary range indicated in this announcement reflects the minimum locality pay up to maximum locality pay for all duty locations listed. The range will be adjusted for selected duty location. General Schedule locality pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages.

• This is a non-bargaining unit position.

• Tour of Duty: Day Shift

• Start and stop times between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

• Alternative work schedule, staggered work hours or telework may be available.

• In the event that a building is closed due to rent management, new hires may be placed in a local commuting location.

• If this position is covered by a formal development plan, pay retention will be offered where applicable based on law and regulation.

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