Industrial Hygienist (Industrial Hygienist)

Why work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons?

You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.

Qualifications:

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements.

Basic Requirements:

Education:

A. A bachelor’s or graduate/higher level degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related sciences

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 (ABIH).

Courses in history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable.

Evaluation of Education 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.

Evaluation of Experience 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 a 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 predication 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

In addition to the basic requirements, you must have:

Education:

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience.

Experience:

At least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.

Some examples of qualifying experience are:

• Experience with indoor air monitoring, to include the ability to read and interpret sampling results and make recommendations for corrective actions.
• Experience with indoor mold exposure and the ability to prescribe necessary testing, interpret sampling results and make recommendations for corrective actions.
• Knowledge of the intricacies of asbestos testing and removal to include the ability to read and interpret sampling results, and experience in selecting, evaluating, and procurement of proper personal protective equipment.
• Experience with silica exposure through concrete grinding, to include the ability to translate sampling results and to make recommendations for proper procedures to protect staff and inmate health.

AND

Selective Factors:

Applicants applying for this position, MUST possess one of the following Selective Factors:

• Applicant must be a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH).

NOTE: All applicants must clearly address the Selective Factors in their resume and, if applicable, provide required transcripts, by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Responsibilities:

Serves as a technical expert, regarding occupational safety issues for FPI and the BOP.

Responsible for planning, developing, monitoring and implementing policies and procedures affecting FPI's Occupational Health and Safety.

Develop, implement and support a corporate wide Occupational Health and Safety program, including policy, legal requirements, objectives and targets for improvement, internal audits, management reviews, stakeholder engagement, continuous improvement and compliance to statutory or regulatory requirements.

Coordinate industrial hygiene surveys of FPI activities to resolve unique and complex problems, to assure compliance with standards and to determine effectiveness of health hazard controls.