SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR FOR HEALTH PHYSICS
What you'd do
This position is located in Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies within the agency. The supervisor is Dafna Silberfeld This position is subject to Public Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position is subject to subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements..
Major duties
The successful candidate will serve as an agency authority on health physics and radiation protection for nuclear reactors, fuel cycle facilities, materials licensees, waste management activities, and emerging nuclear technologies. This includes developing and applying radiation protection principles; dosimetry; radiological assessments; source term evaluation; occupational and public dose assessment; environmental radiation protection; emergency preparedness; and radiation safety throughout the facility life cycle from design and licensing through operation, decommissioning, and waste management. Duties include but are not limited to: Maintains awareness of, contributes to, and helps shape advances in health physics and radiation protection science, ensuring the agency remains at the forefront of emerging developments, technologies, and analytical methodologies. Serves as an agency staff technical expert on health physics and radiation protection. Advises senior management on highly complex safety, policy, and licensing issues associated with radiation protection, radiological risk, and the application of health physics principles to reactor, fuel cycle, materials, waste management, and emerging nuclear technology programs. Provides independent and expert evaluation of NRC and industry approaches to radiation protection, dose assessment, radiological consequence analysis, environmental monitoring, source term evaluation, emergency preparedness, and implementation of radiation protection standards and regulatory guidance. Performs independent technical reviews or leading teams to resolve significant and complex health physics issues, including occupational and public radiation exposure; internal and external dosimetry; radioactive material transport and release; environmental pathway analyses; radiation instrumentation and monitoring; criticality-related radiation protection considerations; decommissioning radiological assessments; and the application of risk-informed and performance-based approaches affecting the licensing, operation, oversight, and decommissioning of NRC-regulated facilities. Independently resolving complex safety issues requiring coordination and communication across agency offices; applicants; the Department of Energy; other Federal agencies; Agreement States; industry; and the public. Represents the agency on national and international working groups, consensus standards committees and technical conference committees associated with radiation protection and health physics. Engages with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), and other domestic and international organizations on radiation protection policy, standards, and emerging technical issues. Provides authoritative technical consultation to senior leadership, supports Commission, Congressional, and adjudicatory activities through expert technical analyses and briefings, and mentors agency staff in the application of sound health physics principles and analytical methodologies.
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic education requirements and possess at least seven to ten years of specialized experience, or an equivalent combination of education (e.g., a graduate degree) and experience that demonstrates the required qualifications, or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience demonstrating expert knowledge of health physics, radiation protection principles, nuclear materials, and health physics policy; providing authoritative technical advice on complex radiation safety issues; and evaluating or developing health physics programs and policies. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: Ideal candidate will have: Demonstrated expert knowledge and applied capability in radiation protection principles and health physics policy, together with comprehensive knowledge of Federal and international radiation protection regulations, standards, guidance, and recommendations (e.g., NRC, EPA, NCRP, ICRP). Experience should include leading or authoritatively contributing to licensing/inspection findings, compliance determinations, policy or guidance development, rulemaking support, incident/operational evaluations, environmental and public dose assessments, and interagency coordination; education and training in health physics, medical physics, nuclear engineering, radiobiology, or closely related fields; demonstrated use of applicable NRC/EPA regulations and guidance, NCRP reports, ICRP recommendations, and recognized consensus/industry standards; and the ability to reconcile differing frameworks and articulate the regulatory basis and technical rationale. 2. Demonstrated expert knowledge and applied capability in internal and external dosimetry and in performing, evaluating, validating, and documenting radiation dose calculations for occupational exposures, medical events, public dose evaluations, technical issues, incident response, and environmental assessments. Experience should show sound technical judgment, accurate application of dosimetric methodologies to complex technical issues, accurate interpretation of results, and the ability to provide technically sound, defensible recommendations that inform regulatory and programmatic decisions. 3. Demonstrated mastery in clearly, accurately, and effectively conveying highly complex scientific and technical information, both orally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences, including technical and nontechnical stakeholders, senior management, interagency partners, licensees, contractors, industry representatives, and the public. Experience should reflect exceptional skill in preparing authoritative technical reports, presenting sophisticated analyses, explaining regulatory and scientific concepts with precision, responding to challenging inquiries, and facilitating collaboration across internal and external organizations. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate must be addressed in your resume. Applicants may also use the supplemental vacancy question to provide additional information pertaining to the specialized experience and ideal candidate criteria. PLEASE BE CLEAR AND CONCISE. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
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