Epidemiologist

B&T Building Services Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston is seeking an Epidemiologist to support occupational health, health physics, or compliance functions, promoting worker health through hazard anticipation, exposure assessment, risk analysis, and preventive controls.

You will drive efforts to understand how environmental, chemical, biological, and radiological factors affect health and help implement systems that minimize those risks for the workforce.

Qualifications

• One year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to GS-09 level.
• Doctoral degree in an appropriate field.
• Three full academic years of graduate education toward a Ph.D.
• Equivalent combination of experience and graduate study.
• Experience designing or refining health risk analyses and standards.
• Serving as an epidemiology subject matter expert for risk management.

Responsibilities

• Support occupational health, health physics, or compliance functions.
• Hazard anticipation, exposure assessment, risk analysis, and preventive controls.
• Understand how environmental, chemical, biological, radiological factors impact health.
• Implement systems that minimize risks to worker health.

Skills

Statistical analyses

Interactive dashboards

Data integration

Epidemiology liaison

Education

Doctoral degree

Graduate study towards Ph.D.

Job description

You will serve as an Epidemiologist at NASA Johnson Space Center. You will provide support and contribute to occupational health, health physicist, or compliance functions. You will collectively support the protection of worker health through hazard anticipation, exposure assessment, risk analysis, and preventive controls. You will drive functions to understand how environmental, chemical, biological, and radiological factors impact human health and implement systems that minimize those risks.

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

To qualify for GS-11, you must have:

a) One year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level:

• Assisting in conducting surveillance or monitoring activities, performing fundamental laboratory or field procedures, or completing basic analyses or visualizations to identify patterns, trends, or potential hazards affecting population or workforce health;
• Collecting, organizing, and interpreting data obtained from interpretive summaries, surveys, or environmental measurements or laboratory tests;
• Assisting in developing or delivering epidemiology educational or training materials that promote prevention practices and risk-reduction behaviors among staff or targeted audiences.

b) Completed all requirements for a doctoral degree (i.e., Ph.D. or equivalent) in an appropriate field.

c) Completed 3 full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or equivalent doctoral degree in an appropriate field.

d) Have an equivalent combination of experience and graduate study as discussed in a), b) and c) above.

To qualify for GS-12, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level:

• Conducting statistical analyses or developing interactive dashboards to inform program or project decisions for assigned portions of surveillance or health outcomes projects;
• Integrating data from field, laboratory, or analytical sources to recommend improvements and define measurable performance criteria to assess, refine, or validate protocols and procedures;
• Serving as an epidemiology technical liaison to clinical, behavioral, environmental, or biomedical engineering teams, translating analytic results into actionable risk mitigation strategies.

To qualify for GS-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level:

• Designing or refining approaches that address emerging issues and guiding high consequence hazard or health risk analyses;
• Establishing health risk analytical standards, prevention or control protocols, or cross disciplinary data integration methods to support validated models, methodologies, or advanced visualization frameworks;
• Serving as an epidemiology subject matter expert, providing technical recommendations that inform organizational decisions, strengthen risk management programs, and influence policy or strategic direction for surveillance, exposure assessment, or risk evaluation.

Preferred candidate will have at least one of the following current license and/or certifications (or equivalent):

• Industrial Hygiene
• Health Physics

Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Probationary Period

You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11.

In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government;
• and, whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.