Health Physicist

Job Duties: Provide expert technical guidance, advice, and assistance regarding current accepted health physical, radiation protection safety, and radiation risk assessment methodologies, policies, and regulations. Identify, evaluate, and control radiological hazards. Provide expert guidance on radiation protection and risk assessment matters affecting environmental restoration projects nationwide. Develop, review, and recommend applicable technical policies, procedures, and other guidance materials pertaining to radiation protection safety, health physics, and radiation risk assessment. Review policies to ensure technical adequacy and compliance with applicable regulations, and directives. Serve as a knowledgeable source of toxicological and health data for radioactive substances/wastes. Interpret complex data relative to individual and radioactive chemicals and mixtures of such chemicals for which health related values have not been established.