Radioactive Materials License Reviewer

TX-HHSC-DSHS-DFPS • Austin, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Employee Benefits:
DSHS offers insurance coverage and other benefits available through the State of Texas Group Benefits Plan administered by the Employee Retirement System of Texas (ERS). To learn more about all the benefits available to you as a DSHS employee and other DSHS opportunities for early career pathways, visit the DSHS Careers Page.
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Perform complex (journey-level) health physics (radiological health) work. Work involves evaluating permit and license application requests. The evaluations include performing technical reviews that involve evaluating equipment, facilities, plans, procedures and personnel for adequacy to minimize danger to public health and safety or the environment for uses of radioactive material. Prepares radioactive materials licenses for issuance after performing technical reviews for safety and regulatory compliance. Work involves planning and developing radiation control projects and coordinating special projects in areas of health physics. May train others and give presentations. Works under general supervision with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Radiation control, radiological health, and radiation safety practices and techniques,
• Knowledge of Health physics, physical science, radioactive materials, radiation, and mathematics,
• Knowledge of Radiation detection, measurement, control and environmental monitoring equipment,
• Knowledge of Information sources for radiation control, health physics, and environmental surveillance,
• Knowledge of Federal and State laws and regulations,
• Knowledge of Regulatory procedures of licensing programs,
• Knowledge of Radiation control program operations
• Skill in Reading, analyzing, and interpreting complex applications, regulations, and regulatory requirements,
• Skill in Written and oral communication of technical material,
• Skill in Communicating technical information at an appropriate level
• Ability to Make independent and sound technical judgments,
• Ability to Interpret and use engineering drawings and technical data,
• Ability to Interpret and use scientific and radiological data,
• Ability to Use Microsoft Office programs, especially Outlook, Word, and Excel, at a level commensurate with a business office and technical environment,
• Ability to Interpret and use radiation shielding designs and radiological and statistical data,
• Ability to Interpret laws and regulations,
• Ability to Apply health physics and other scientific principles,
• Ability to Detect and evaluate radiation and public health hazards,
• Ability to Communicate effectively,
• Ability to Train others
• Applicant has a bachelor's degree with at least one years’ experience working with, or regulating the usage of, ionizing radiation; experience and education may be substituted for one another (6 months’ experience = 15 semester hours).
• one or more of the following criteria:
• - Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math academic discipline
• - Experience writing reports and/or organizing, preparing, and presenting information in written and/or verbal format.
• - Experience with state and/or federal laws, regulations/rules, and directives.
• - Experience in a regulatory or quality control position requiring direct contact with the public.
• - Experience communicating with the public.
• - Hands-on experience using ionizing radiation.
• - Working knowledge and experience in setting up and maintaining radiation safety programs

Responsibilities

• Serves as project team member as an independent technical reviewer. Performs or coordinates technical reviews of radiation safety plans, operations, and facilities, including shielding designs.
• Evaluates radiation safety, and operating and emergency procedure manuals. Evaluates adequacy of radiological decommissioning cost estimates. Prepares authorizations, permits, and licenses based on regulatory standards for uses of radiation and radiation exposure to the public and the environment.
• Produce licenses for issuance for applications that adequately meet the department’s rules and requirements.
• Prepares correspondence, technical reports, environmental assessments, impact statements, or programmatic assessments.
• Provide technical information to applicants, licensees, the public and staff. Recommend, and implement radiation safety policies, procedures, and guidelines. Evaluate radiological sampling data or calculations of radiation doses from internal and/or external exposure to radiation to determine radiation dose and effects for individuals.
• Research acceptable scientific practices and standards applicable to radioactive material licensing.
• Review and provide written comments on guides, policies and rules based on technical criteria. Drafts and revises guidance documents which adequately address appropriate radiation safety issues. May perform as project team member or team leader in the review, evaluation, and production of regulatory guidance, policies and rules. May also provide presentations based on these reviews, evaluations, and comments.
• Review Sealed Source and Device registration documents to evaluate safety criteria for license applications wanting to use the sources and devices. When qualified to do so, perform a technical review and evaluation of radioactive sources and devices, which includes a review of engineering design plans and construction methods to complete a radiological health and safety analysis. Produces, or performs a concurrence review of, a Sealed Source and Device registration certificate summarizing the results of the review.
• Perform as project leader or project team member on other Radiation Control Program project teams. Coordinates, oversees, and leads ongoing and/or special licensing projects. The projects may include staff from other offices or agencies. Develop schedules for project team task completion. Develops methods for increasing efficiency of processes and workflow of a team project.
• Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the department’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation including nuclear emergency response drills, exercises and actual response to accidents. Such participation may require an alternate shift pattern assignment and/or location.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level