- Position Title
- INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5)
- Agency
- Air National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- IL-12601773-AF-24-331 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Tuesday, November 12, 2024 to Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
US Citizens. Are you a US Citizen?
Preferences
1.
Would you accept a temporary appointment?
Assessment 1
Respond to all questions. For each, choose the response that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
Specialized Experience: Do you possess the specialized experience for the GS-08 Level, which requires knowledge to include public law, executive orders, state and municipal Codes, OSHA, AFOSH, EPA, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), and American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) standards; USAF and ANG regulations and supplements, criteria documents, professional journals, textbooks, and past practice; independent interpretation, judgment, evaluation, selection, and application; exercise experienced judgment to adapt past practices to meet the situation?
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Air Force Occupational Safety and health (AFOSH) directives in the ANG area of assignment.
3.
Routinely survey workplaces for compliance, providing corrective measures when non-compliance situations arise.
4.
Ensure the installation is in compliance with OSHA confined space standards.
5.
Manage the base drinking water surveillance program, ensuring full compliance with all aspects of the EPA Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
6.
Research industrial operations and develop, implement, and execute surveillance strategies, inspections and evaluations of operational facilities, and various activities to detect and eliminate health hazards.
7.
Research technical orders (T.O) for possible substitutes (i.e., environmentally friendly products).
8.
Research, formulate and implement workplace air sampling strategy, performs air sampling surveys, and evaluates results.
9.
Analyze information used in preparing hazardous materials inventories and operating instructions.
10.
Invoke authority to cease any operation due to potentially life threatening conditions. In the case of serious or acute conditions, chronic illnesses, etc., performs follow-up interviews and provides guidance to the affected or involved employee(s), physician(s), hospital/clinic(s), and supervisor(s) to prevent future similar situations.
11.
Identify potential physical, biological, and chemical health hazards in the workplace; evaluate 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.
12.
Determine and assign Risk Assessment Code (RAC) to health hazards.
13.
Determine human health impacts, works with Air Force, federal, and state officials collaboratively to ensure all laws are followed properly.
14.
Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. If you fail to answer this question, you will be disqualified from consideration for this position. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position.