Radiation Protection Specialist I - Instrumentation Program Manager Job ID 6217 Location SLAC - Menlo Park, CA Full-Time Regular **SLAC Job Postings** **Position overview:** SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Environmental, Safety & Health (ESH) Division is seeking a highly motivated Health & Safety Specialist to join our Radiation Protection team and to support our Instrumentation program. Members of this team are responsible for the development, implementation and/or management of various safety radiation safety programs. In this position, you will be responsible for the Instrumentation Program as well as other assigned areas and projects. This position reports to the DREP Group Leader. **Your specific responsibilities include:** + Oversee the calibration of portable radiation protection instruments by one or more science and engineering or health physics technician(s). + Plan and direct the calibration of fixed instruments such as beam shut-off ionization chambers (BSOICs), portable radiation monitoring stations, and beamline residual dose monitors. + Under general supervision, perform basic technical work in a wide range of environmental, health, and safety disciplines, with emphasis on Health Physics. + Plan and monitor instrumentation calibration budget. + Maintain assigned policies and procedures. + Perform testing and analysis of new equipment. + Identify, assess and monitor workplace hazards, including but not limited to physical and radiological. Recommend improvements to minimize hazard potential. + Conduct investigations by compiling and analyzing data of potential hazards, unsafe conditions or environmental concerns. Share findings and recommendations to limit risk. + Provide technical advice and interpretation of local, state, and federal regulations to achieve compliance with government and SLAC policies. + May develop and conduct employee training. **To be successful in this position you will bring:** + Bachelor¿s degree in Health Physics or related allied/scientific field and one year experience in occupational safety and health, emergency response/management, environmental science, and/or allied/scientific field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. + Knowledge of database software for equipment calibration and tracking. + Demonstrated ability to conduct risk assessments/evaluations and provide recommendations for risk mitigation or hazard identification. + Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills. + Basic understanding of environmental, health, and safety principles and practices. + Demonstrated organizational skills and detail orientation and ability to manage competing priorities. + Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with diverse audiences; ability explain technical concepts clearly and concisely. + Ability to maintain appropriate current knowledge of and interpret specific government agency requirements (statutes, regulations, licenses, and permits). **Certificates and Licenses:** None **SLAC employee competencies:** + Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner. + Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing. + Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes. + Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward. + Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes. + Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages + Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve. **Physical requirements and Working conditions:** + Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job. **Work standards:** + Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations. + Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1¿General Policy and Responsibilities: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/eshmanual/pdfs/ESHch01.pdf + Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu ------------------------- + **Classification Title** **: Health and Safety Specialist 1** + **Grade:** H, **Job code:** 4381 + **Duration** **: Regular continuing** _The expected pay range for this position is $100,341 - $111,882 per annum. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs._ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States. SLAC is an E-Verify employer.