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About the Role

DSHS is committed to hiring skilled and dedicated individuals who share a passion for public health to pursue our vision of A Healthy Texas. If you are looking to make an impact and tackle new challenges, we encourage you to consider a career with us.

Responsibilities

Performs complex (journey-level) health physics and radiation control work.
Conducts inspections, including surveying or investigating facilities using sources of radiation to ensure compliance with radiation safety and environmental laws.
Supervises the work of others.
Independently evaluates incident and complaint reports for adequacy and appropriate mitigation actions.
Serves as project leader or project team member on various operational and technical projects.
Plans, assigns, and directs the work of others as project leader.
Plans, develops, and directs highly advanced technical radiological health projects involving investigations of incidents, complaints, and technical assistances concerning uses of various sources of radiation.
Coordinates and directs radiological decontamination oversight activities at sites contaminated with radiation.
Writes incident and complaint summaries.
Participates in emergency exercise activities as a response team member.
Testifies in enforcement conferences and hearings.
Participates in the preparations for hearings and enforcement conferences.
Comments on proposed Federal and State radiation regulations and participates in rulemaking discussion groups.
Oversees and coordinates the conduct of complex environmental assessments and radiological investigations to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal radiation control, environmental, and public health laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Provides oversight of incident, complaint, or technical assistance investigations.
Plans and conducts inspections and investigations of installed X-ray equipment, non-ionizing radiation devices, and facilities where radioactive materials are used or stored.
Leads investigation teams and prepares reports of team findings.
Performs review and evaluation of incident and complaint reports to assure mitigation and radiation safety issues are resolved.
Assigns, coordinates, and leads investigations of incidents and complaints reported by employees of licensees or registrants, the general public, and other state and federal agencies.
Performs risk assessments based on quantitative relationships between radiation exposure and biological damage.
Prepares highly advanced technical reports of findings and conclusions associated with evaluation of statistical and environmental radiation data and interpretation of results.
Serves as technical spokesperson for media contacts during a radiological accident or event associated with an incident or complaint.
Consults and coordinates with representatives of other state and federal radiation control, security, and emergency agencies, special interest groups, the public, or department personnel on radiation and environmental issues.
Coordinates major technical incident and complaint investigations with staff from other Divisions or Departments, other Texas agencies, other states, or federal government agencies, as needed.
Evaluates and interprets statistical and environmental data and calculates radiation doses from internal and/or external exposure to radiation to determine radiation dose and effects for individuals involved with, and environmental impacts from, radiological accidents or other events.
Provides technical assistance and advice to facility management, the public, and/or other interested groups in the application of appropriate state and federal laws and regulations.
Provides testimony in legal proceedings on health physics issues related to radioactive materials and/or radiation producing devices.
Prepares and approves correspondence, technical reports or environmental assessments.
Performs scientific review of incident databases.
Researches and reviews environmental and radiological health documentation.
Evaluates highly complex technical information and data to identify trends that impact on rulemaking and changes in the regulatory process.
Distributes information within the Agency, to other state and federal agencies, the public, and to the regulated community.
Prepares technical reports or presents assessments at technical meetings.
Determines when incident or complaint response is complete.
Reviews all data and information collected from reports and investigations and independently determines if information is adequate for closure and issuance of appropriate compliance notices.
Participates in escalated enforcement actions.
Independently determines if recommendation of escalated enforcement action is necessary.
Reviews incident and complaint history.
Makes recommendations through Deputy Director.
Participates with other Division staff to prepare administrative penalty actions.
Coordinates with legal staff technical reviewer in preparation of preliminary reports.
Prepares and provides testimony in administrative hearings and court cases on highly technical radiological health issues.
Performs follow-up investigations when necessary.
Coordinates and performs inspections of licensed and registered facilities for various uses of radiation sources.
Actively participate or serve in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery, or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation.
Actively participate on the agency’s radiological emergency response team.
Participates in assigned role(s) in public health, COOP, or radiological emergency response drills and events.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in health physics, nuclear or environmental engineering, environmental or natural sciences, chemistry, or a related field.
Experience and education may be substituted for one another; four years of experience may be substituted for education at the discretion of the hiring manager.

Skills

Radiation control, radiological health, and environmental laws and regulations, and of radiation safety practices and techniques.
Medical and industrial uses of radioactive materials, x-ray, accelerator and non ionizing sources of radiation.
Types of radiation and their characteristics.
Non-ionizing radiation.
Biological effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation including radiological safety practices and techniques.
Internal and external radiation dose calculations including annual limits of intakes (ALI) and derived air concentrations (DAC).
Radiation detection and highly advanced technical analytical equipment.
Investigative practice.
Texas Regulations for Control of Radiation and federal laws concerning radiation control.
Other local, state, and federal agencies and their general capabilities and areas of authority.
X-ray equipment used for medical, dental and mammography procedures.
The use of radiation detection, monitoring, and measuring instruments; in the collection of environmental samples; in radiological computer applications; and in the use of research techniques.
The operation, maintenance, and calibration of radiation detection and highly advanced technical analytical instrumentation.
Use highly advanced computer models (RESRAD, Stampede, RASCAL, etc.).
Lead investigations of radiological incidents and complaints.
Interview individuals with knowledge of complaints and incidents.
Analyze and interpret radiation data.
Technical writing, oral communication and interview techniques.
Use of computer modeling equipment in dose/risk assessment.
Interpret and use radiation shielding designs and radiological and statistical data.
Communicate effectively.
Interpret laws and regulations.
Apply health physics and other scientific principles.
Detect and evaluate radiation hazards.
Supervise the work of others.
Conduct inspections, surveys, and studies of radioactive material licenses and registrations of radiation producing machines.
Establish satisfactory working relationships with coworkers and other agency representatives.
Perform internal dose calculations using biological models and/or ALI's and DAC's.
Make independent decisions concerning radiological hazards, risk assessments, and adequate mitigation.
Independently recommend protective actions based on highly advanced technical data.
Prepare concise and accurate highly technical reports.
Evaluate information contained in reports and documents.
Analyze environmental samples.
Evaluate information received from surveys, highly advanced analyses, and other data and make independent decisions concerning radiological hazards, risk assessments, and adequate mitigation.
Plan, design, oversee, and coordinate radiation control projects.

Location

AUSTIN

Work Type

Full time
Regular

Experience Level

Journey-level

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$61,183.92 - $99,657.96

Benefits

Insurance coverage and other benefits available through the State of Texas Group Benefits Plan administered by the Employee Retirement System of Texas (ERS).

About the Company

DSHS is committed to hiring skilled and dedicated individuals who share a passion for public health to pursue our vision of A Healthy Texas.

Equal Opportunity

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), DSHS will provide reasonable accommodation during the hiring process for individuals with a qualifying disability. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the interview process, please notify the person who contacts you to schedule the interview. If you need assistance completing the on-line application, contact the HHS Employee Service Center at 1-888-894-4747 or via email at HHSServiceCenter.Applications@ngahrhosting.com.