Industrial Hygienist Trainee- Hazardous Survellance and Work Place Conditions

US Army Public Health Command Europe (PHCE) provides timely, tailored, and technical preventive medicine, public health, and veterinary services to our stakeholders in order to protect the health and wellness, maximize the readiness, and improve the resiliency of those we are privileged to serve. The Industrial Hygiene Division (IHD) is located in Landstuhl, Germany with ten program offices located throughout Germany, with one in Italy, and one in Belgium. PHCE IHD provides support to United States Army Europe both in garrison and deployed settings through the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental factors and stressors associated with work operations that may cause sickness, impaired health, or inefficiency among our Soldiers, Civilian and Local National personnel in Europe.

The US Army of Public Health Command Europe (PHCE) is offering a mentor-guided research opportunity in Germany. This opportunity will focus on industrial hygiene and work place conditions. Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will expand their training and experience in various sectors of government industrial hygiene. The participant will learn how to identify and evaluate conditions in the work place, learn the investigation protocols for industrial hygiene, and learn applied methods and solutions to decrease and/or eliminate adverse effects to employee health at military commands. Under the mentor’s guidance, the participant will have the opportunity to take part in the following:

This appointment is a twelve month research appointment, with the possibility to be renewed for additional research periods. Appointments may be extended depending on funding availability, project assignment, program rules, and availability of the participant.

Participants will receive a stipend to be determined by APHC. Stipends are typically based on the participant’s academic standing, discipline, experience, and research facility location. Other benefits may include the following:

The participant will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, DOD, or any other office or agency. Instead, the participant will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment.

While participants will not enter into an employment relationship with DOD or any other agency, this opportunity will require a suitability investigation/background investigation. Any offer made is considered tentative pending favorable outcome of the investigation.

Preferred candidate will possess a Bachelor's or graduate (or higher level) in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related science. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.

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Related Degree: Bachelor's degree in a branch of engineering, physical science, or life science that included 12 semester hours in chemistry, including organic chemistry, and 18 additional semester hours of courses in any combination of chemistry, physics, engineering, health physics, environmental health, biostatistics, biology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, or industrial hygiene. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. For engineering degrees to be acceptable, the curriculum must be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technicology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum.