Job Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for STEM to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This Health Physicist position is located in the US Army Communications and Electronics Command, Directorate for Safety Radiation Analysis & Compliance (ASC) Division, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Job Description

• Serves as senior health physicist for the development and implementation of CECOM installation and worldwide radiation safety programs.
• Designated as the technical point of contact for US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing and control of thermal imaging systems.
• Conduct inspections of the Army National Guard Radiation Safety Programs to ensure compliance to NRC license requirements and DoD regulations.
• Provide training to qualify personnel to serve as a Radiation Safety Officer and ship Class 7, Radioactive material.
• Performs or directs the investigation of accidents and incidents involving radioactive materials and ionizing radiation producing devices.
• Perform quality assurance test on various Dental X-ray systems.
• Develop/review procedures for the calibration of radiation detection instrumentation and sample analysis counting equipment.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. ??? In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. ALL candidates must possess the Basic Educational Requirement to be considered for this position. Basic Educational Requirement-Health Physicist 1306 (Transcripts Required)Degree: natural science or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in health physics, engineering, radiological science, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and/or calculus or Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown above, plus appropriate experience or other education; or certification as a health physicist by the American Board of Health Physics, plus appropriate experience and other education that provided an understanding of sciences applicable to health physics comparable to that described in paragraph above. In addition to the competencies, to qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of specialized experience which prepared you to do this work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Advise on two or more radiation safety protective equipment such as sensors, detectors and decontamination equipment to support results of ionizing and nonionizing radiation evaluation; 2) Prepare evaluation plans relating to radiation hazard threats; and 3) Provide the planning of long-range radiation safety studies to minimize/eliminate radiation hazards. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower pay band or grade/level in the federal service (NH-02/GS-11).

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) is the Army’s materiel integrator for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) readiness. As a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), CECOM collaborates with Army Commands, Program Executive Offices, other AMC commands, and industry partners to provide, integrate, and sustain world-class C5ISR hardware, software, and mission command capabilities for the joint warfighter. CECOM maintains a global team of approximately 9,000 Soldiers, civilians, and contractors and is headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), MD.