Health Physicist

Summary

In this position you will serve as a Health Physicist, the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Regional Office, Regional 9, National Preparedness Division. The ideal candidate for this position will have educational and working experience in a radiation control program or radiation safety office and extensive experience working with radiological emergency preparedness programs and response to radiological incidents.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a senior level expert in preparing for and responding to naturally occurring and human-caused emergencies involving nuclear or radioactive material. Typical assignments include:

Serving as the Regional Radiological and Nuclear Physicist technical advisor for off-site preparedness and response activities associated with Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program (REPP). Supporting the REPP National Training Program as a regional trainer and developer of new trainings. Tracking and reporting programmatic demands, activities, funds, expenditures, production, and staff assignments. Planning, initiating, writing, and reviewing REPP Health Physicist and site reports for pre, during, and post exercise plume and ingestion pathway exercise evaluations. Serving as the lead representative for the Technological Hazards Branch (THB) when the THB Chief is on leave or deployed.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

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