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Industrial Hygienist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 14 days ago
Hybrid North Chicago, IL $95K – $124K Apply by Sep 10, 2026 Industrial Hygiene ESFJINFJISFJISTJ HealthcareTransportation
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This position is located in the Fleet Medicine Directorate, Public Health Department in the Industrial Hygiene Division, located at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC), North Chicago, Illinois; a1c complexity facility. Lovell FHCC is larger than just a single facility, but rather a system of facilities throughout Northeastern Illinois and Wisconsin which provide medical and dental services to U.S. Military Veterans, Recruits, and Active Duty and eligible beneficiaries.
What You'll Do
- →MAJOR DUTIES Serves as an Industrial Hygienist in a medical center where duties include, but are not limited to the following: asbestos control and abatement, ethylene oxide, formaldehyde, hearing conversation, hazard communication, nitrous oxide, mercury, hazardous and infectious waste management, water testing and treatment, respirator program, and anti-neoplastic drugs.
- →Performs various duties in an Industrial Hygiene program to access work practices and environmental conditions for hazards to the health and safety of workers.
- →Duties include conducting studies of work operations and processes, examining work environments, analyzing findings, promulgating recommendations, and preparing various reports.
- →Environmental conditions involve a variety of hazards including physical, chemical, and biological hazards; ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; and other environmental agents.
- →Assigned work areas include industrial shops, surgical suites, production areas, laboratories, research areas, confined spaces and outdoor work sites.
- →Regularly inspects the medical center to identify potential occupational health hazards and the need for further investigative studies and surveys.
- →Studies and surveys performed involve determining compliance with various established criteria, evaluating exposures, and advising on control measures and changes in work procedures or schedules to comply with established health requirements, and providing information for evaluation purposes.
- →In performing surveys/studies, incumbent must: 1) select or devise methods and instruments; 2) personally or through others, conduct measurements; and 3) study and test materials associated with the work operation or work environment.
- →Performs analysis to determine nature and degree of toxic materials present.
- →Interprets results of studies for the work environment in terms of possible impairment to health, nature of health impairment, potential for medical center damages, etc., and presents specific conclusions and recommendations to appropriate management and health officials.
- →Determines the need for and effectiveness of, control measures and changes in work procedures.
- →Recommends procedures that will be suitable and effective for the environment.
- →Receives and disposes of hazardous wastes and maintains appropriate records in accordance with existing EPA standards, state laws, and VA regulations.
- →Prepares comprehensive and legally sufficient written reports of all monitoring activities performed which are subsequently incorporated into comprehensive reports prepared to assess the overall effectiveness of the industrial hygiene program.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary/trial period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
- ✓For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09.
- ✓The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.
- ✓An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.
- ✓If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement.
- ✓In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.
- ✓Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
- ✓NOTE: Education and experience may be combined for all grade levels for which both education and experience are acceptable.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 0bc75169-1484-44f7-b763-cf248408e28b
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