Recent Graduate Industrial Hygienist

Job Title: Recent Graduate Industrial Hygienist

Key Responsibilities

• Develops contacts with higher-graded specialists, industrial hygienists, and safety engineers.
• Communicates the nature and type of hazards and unsafe working conditions encountered.
• Coordinates measures to correct adverse occurrences, unguarded machine operations, and fire hazards.
• Motivates and encourages personnel to adopt safe working practices and remedy hazardous conditions.
• Resolves assignments providing an orientation to occupational work and safety hazards.
• Makes recommendations concerning the appropriate course of action based on case merits, testimony evaluation, and OSHA policies.
• Deposes, makes affidavits, and testifies in a court of law.
• Identifies areas in need of immediate corrective action or conditions of imminent danger.
• Assists in investigating mishaps resulting in fatalities or injuries, and serious incidents.
• Assists in conducting sampling, arranging for laboratory analysis, reviewing laboratory results, and preparing reports with findings and control recommendations.
• Inspects worksites, machines, equipment operations, environmental conditions, work practices, and safety procedures.
• Conducts research using internet technology to prepare for inspections or respond to information requests.
• Selects and applies appropriate regulatory provisions to determine compliance with safety and occupational health standards.
• Uses automated systems to calculate penalties based on violation gravity, injury/illness severity, and probability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Subject to a drug test prior to appointment at GS-11 and GS-12 grade levels.
• Requires medical exam and must maintain physical requirements.
• Requires use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Required to lift items weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Requires a valid driver's license.
• Appointees must sign a DOL Pathways Recent Graduate Program Participant Agreement.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have graduated, within the past two years, from a qualifying educational institution or career/technical education program.

• Basic Education Requirement:

• 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 A bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or life science, including 12 semester hours in chemistry (including organic chemistry) and 18 additional semester hours in chemistry, physics, engineering, health physics, environmental health, biostatistics, biology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, or industrial hygiene.

• OR Certification from the Board for Global EHS Credentialing (formerly ABIH).

• Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable.

• All science or engineering courses must be acceptable for credit toward a standard 4-year professional curriculum.

• Experience Interpretation: Qualifying experience involves the recognition, evaluation, corrective actions, and elimination of environmental workplace conditions causing sickness or impaired health. It must demonstrate professional knowledge of industrial hygiene principles and related sciences.

• Must have experience in:

• Acquisition of quantitative and qualitative data, and measurement of exposures for chemical, physical, and biological stresses.

• Analysis of acquired data and prediction of probable health effects of exposures.

• Selection and recommendation of appropriate controls (management, medical, engineering, education/training, PPE).

• GS-07 Level Requirements:

• At least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level.

• Specialized experience may include:

• Assisting in the planning or conducting of basic occupational safety or occupational health inspections.

• Identifying occupational health and safety hazards.

• Evaluating occupational safety or occupational health programs and making recommendations.

• Applying occupational safety and/or occupational health standards to unsafe working conditions.

• OR Education: One full year of progressively higher-level graduate education or Superior Academic Achievement in a bachelor's degree program.

• OR Combination of Education and Experience: A qualifying combination of education and competencies.

• GS-09 Level Requirements:

• At least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level.

• Specialized experience may include:

• Assisting in the planning or conducting of occupational safety or occupational health inspections.

• Conducting research and studies on occupational safety or occupational health mishaps/accidents.

• Identifying occupational health and safety hazards.

• Assisting in or knowledge of calculating penalties for occupational safety and/or occupational health violations.

• OR Education: Completed a Master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field demonstrating knowledge of identifying and evaluating health hazards, surveys, assessing, understanding, and investigating health problems, determining causes, and recommending solutions.

• OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience.