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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

Penn State's Office of Physical Plant, Radiation Protection department is accepting applications for a Health Physicist opportunity!

With general direction from the Radiation Safety Officer, this position is responsible for helping to implement a wide variety of assigned areas of the University radiation protection program. This position primarily provides radiation safety related services to the university to support operations and research; and to ensure the university is compliant with federal / state regulations involving the use of radioactive materials and radiation producing equipment.

As a member of Finance and Business, you will be joining a team of individuals who have the ambition to help Penn State succeed. Workforce diversity, cultural inclusiveness, and employment equity are deeply rooted in Penn State’s historic mission. Just as we are committed to being a diverse educational environment, we are also committed to being a diverse working community. As a community, we endeavor to be a mixture of cultural backgrounds, life experiences, and individual perspectives that add variety and vitality to the workplace. The University believes that we can learn from each other’s differences and break down the barriers that separate us. Penn State is a place where everyone can be themselves, together.

Primary duties include:

• Provide health physics support to the University and applicable campuses; this includes routine contamination/radiation audits of laboratories, surveying incoming isotopes for delivery on campus, collecting radioactive waste, reviewing applications for use of radioactive material, and radiation-producing equipment safety.

• Implement and assist with the EHS Radioactive Waste Management program.

• Perform or assist in the performance of internal calibrations of contamination survey and radiation monitoring instrumentation.

• Assist with implementation of dosimetry program.

• Assist in implementing the EHS radioactive material space decommissioning service.

• Provide support for the EHS Radioactive Material shipping service, including for material produced at the RSEC as well as for material that members of the PSU community have a need to transport or ship to any location.

• Assist with implementing the EHS sealed source radioactive material and generally licensed radioactive material safety programs

• Oversee EHS-Radiation