PHYSICAL SCIENCE TECHNICIAN

GS-05 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-04 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: conducting radiation control surveillance of activities, personnel, or materials to ensure radiological control inspection requirements are appropriately recorded, maintained, and met.

GS-04 Your resume must demonstrate at least 6 months of general experience in physical science or a related field, and 6 months of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-03 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: performing basic radiological control checks to ensure results of analysis or documented procedures performed are correctly recorded in accordance with standardized procedures and operations. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/physical-science-technician-series-1311.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will make and interpret air, water, and surface radiation surveys in most, if not all, vessel and shipyard areas, posting areas, and arranging for erection of barriers.,You will check out deviations from normal or anticipated radiation levels to determine if the deviations are transient, instrument in defective, shielding has moved, equipment or the area has higher than expected radiation levels.,You will interpret work plans, drawings, specifications, and procedures pertaining to maintenance, overhaul, refueling, or alteration of nuclear vessels.,You will implement radiological control procedures related to the storage, local transportation, and local treatment of small volumes of nuclear waste.,You will gain familiarity with the work methods and procedures of a few skilled trades and the radiological control procedures for monitoring them.,You will gain familiarity with accident and casualty prevention and control procedures, as well as detection and correction of routine deficiencies.,You will gain understanding of the layout and functioning of the nuclear propulsion system for a few variations of particular vessel designs.,You will maintain required Shipyard and radiological control technician qualifications as directed by the Head, Radiological Monitoring Division.