Senior Engineer - Health Physicist

Planned Systems International is hiring a part-time Senior Engineer – Health Physicist for their NIOSH contract. The role involves carrying out complex public health practice and research activities, providing technical consultation to various health agencies, and conducting evaluations related to radiation exposure assessments.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a health physicist responsible for carrying out a full range of complex public health practice and research activities
• Provides technical consultation and assistance to Federal, State, local and other health agencies concerning various complex health physics related projects
• Selects appropriate guidelines and determines which legal, regulatory and other requirements applicable to the particular radiation exposure assessment or situation
• Independently plans projects to solve technical radiation exposure assessment problems for which definitions, methods, and/or radiation monitoring data are incomplete, controversial or uncertain
• Conducts literature reviews and research on past methods in order to develop innovative radiation dose estimation techniques for the purposes of establishing similar exposure groups and job exposure matrices
• Conducts technical evaluations to assess the measured radiation exposure for individual and groups of workers
• Performs scientific assessments and data analysis related to radiation exposures in the workplace and the environment

Requirements:

• MS in health physics, or at least 5 years focused work experience in health physics plus MS in industrial hygiene or nuclear engineering
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Communication tools (Teams, SharePoint)