Risk Analyst (Open to Everyone)

Summary This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety & Safeguards, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Risk and Technical Analysis Branch. The supervisor is Chris McKenney. This  position is Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position IS subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements. Learn more about this agency Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship Required This is a Drug Testing position. Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires. You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (GG-13) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.   The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: 1. KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, AND APPLIED PRACTICES OF RISK ASSESSMENT ASSOCIATED WITH DECOMMISSIONING, URANIUM RECOVERY, AND LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE. (Example: Describe your specific applied experience with sites, remediation activities, training, and education that demonstrates your knowledge, skills, and abilities of the principles of applied. Describe the types of sites you worked with, and your role with those sites. Demonstrate how your experience would prepare you to review reports and applications associated with multi-media risk assessment of the potential doses from decommissioning, uranium recovery and low-level radioactive waste.) 2. DEMONSTRATED ABILITY IN FORMULATING SOUND TECHNICAL JUDGEMENTS, MAKING TECHNICAL OR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS, AND FINDING SOLUTIONS TO UNIQUE FIRST OF A KIND TECHNICAL OR POLICY CHALLENGES REGARDING ISSUES PERTAINING TO RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR REMEDIATION OR WASTE ISSUES. (Example: Describe education, training and experience that demonstrate your ability to formulate technical judgments. Provide examples of judgments, recommendations, or actions you have taken regarding unique first of a kind technical or policy issues pertaining remediation or waste issues. Describe your ability to identify complex issues and recommend successful approaches for resolution for areas representing a departure from past precedent, or in the absence of applicable guidance. Highlight examples that demonstrate resourcefulness, initiative, and ingenuity in reaching work objectives. Include specific examples that describe the complexity of the work, and your ability to organize, prioritize and accomplish the work.) 3. KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, AND APPLIED PRACTICES OF RISK ASSESSMENT AS IT APPLIES TO SITES REQUIRING RECLAMATION OR PLANNED WASTE DISPOSAL SITES. (Example: Describe your specific applied experience with sites and environmental programs, training, and education that demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and abilities of the principles of applied risk assessments of contamination into the subsurface environment (i.e., chemicals, metals, radionuclides) and/or waste disposal. Describe the types of sites you worked with, and your role with those sites. Demonstrate how your experience would prepare you to review reports and applications associated with conventional uranium mill facilities, complex decommissioning sites, or waste disposal with an emphasis on either near field, far field, or exposure assessment.) 4.  ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE, BOTH ORALLY AND IN WRITING, COMPLEX TECHNICAL IDEAS, POSITIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROPOSALS BEFORE MANAGEMENT, LICENSEES, STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCY OFFICIALS, OR CLIENTS DEPENDING ON ONE’S EXPERIENCE. (EXAMPLE: Describe your experience, training and accomplishments that demonstrate your ability to communicate complex situations to these groups.) Describe education, training, and experience which demonstrate your ability to present information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner both orally and in writing. Describe your ability to deal effectively with various levels of staff, to coordinate and prepare documents using various inputs. Describe the various types and levels of individuals you routinely interact with and for what purposes. What types of original writing do you generate? With whom do you communicate orally and for what purpose? What types of working relationships have you made, with whom, and how frequently? Include examples of situations where it was necessary for you to use tact, diplomacy, and negotiation skills to achieve cooperation or consensus when interacting with staff, management, or the general public.) Specialized experience is described as: Experience leading the formulation, analysis, and implementation of risk management policies and strategies; AND developing and implementing standards and guidelines for risk and environmental assessment; AND developing and implementing policy guidance and instruction for an organization or management team in such areas as: risk management, remediation strategies, or long-term assessments. Education Qualification All Professional Engineering 0800 Series: Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2)include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f)nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than rottenest (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Qualification for 1301 Series: Basic Requirements: Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Additional information The duty location of this position is Rockville, MD. In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4 days per pay period.  Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits. As an NRC employee you will enjoy excellent Federal Benefits, including: Comprehensive health and life insurance plans Flexible Spending Account Program for health and dependent care Dental and Vision Insurance Retirement savings and investment plan similar to 401(k) (Thrift Savings Plan) Annual (vacation) and paid sick leave Family friendly leave policies 11 paid holidays per year Transit benefits. This link provides an overview of the benefits currently offered to Federal employees. https://help.usajobs.gov/index.php/Pay_and_Benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.