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Form of workVCU Safety & Risk Management has an exciting opportunity for a Radiation Safety Technician to join our team!
All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU's robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, employer-funded retirement plans and employee retirement savings options with cash match, generous tuition benefit, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more. Learn more at "Why VCU?" https://hr.vcu.edu/careers-at-vcu/why-work-at-vcu/ and more about VCU's employee benefits: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/benefits/a-z-list-of-benefits/.
Position Summary/Overview: VCU Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) team seeks culturally and professionally diverse individuals skilled in Radiation Safety Programs. Safety & Risk Management (SRM) partners with the VCU community to promote and facilitate a positive, campus-wide attitude of safety excellence and environmental stewardship to protect university assets and reduce risks.
The primary mission of Safety & Risk Management is to advance and support a safe and healthy environment at VCU and VCU Health. This work is accomplished through surveys, consultation, teaching, advising, auditing, and environmental monitoring. As the University liaison for safety and compliance, SRM works with outside agencies and organizations to address all applicable standards.
The Radiation Safety Technician is an integral part of the SRM team. The Radiation Safety Technician performs duties required by VCU's Radiation Safety programs to meet all Federal, State and University regulations and policies including but not limited to the following: performing Radiation Safety surveys, inspections, investigations, waste program management, and lab analysis, and providing emergency response, as necessary. The Radiation Safety Technician provides support services to VCU and VCU Health System personnel including chemical and lab safety.
Minimum Qualifications:
All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU's robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, employer-funded retirement plans and employee retirement savings options with cash match, generous tuition benefit, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more. Learn more at "Why VCU?" https://hr.vcu.edu/careers-at-vcu/why-work-at-vcu/ and more about VCU's employee benefits: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/benefits/a-z-list-of-benefits/.
Position Summary/Overview: VCU Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) team seeks culturally and professionally diverse individuals skilled in Radiation Safety Programs. Safety & Risk Management (SRM) partners with the VCU community to promote and facilitate a positive, campus-wide attitude of safety excellence and environmental stewardship to protect university assets and reduce risks.
The primary mission of Safety & Risk Management is to advance and support a safe and healthy environment at VCU and VCU Health. This work is accomplished through surveys, consultation, teaching, advising, auditing, and environmental monitoring. As the University liaison for safety and compliance, SRM works with outside agencies and organizations to address all applicable standards.
The Radiation Safety Technician is an integral part of the SRM team. The Radiation Safety Technician performs duties required by VCU's Radiation Safety programs to meet all Federal, State and University regulations and policies including but not limited to the following: performing Radiation Safety surveys, inspections, investigations, waste program management, and lab analysis, and providing emergency response, as necessary. The Radiation Safety Technician provides support services to VCU and VCU Health System personnel including chemical and lab safety.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Experience in Radiation Safety surveys, waste disposal, or other areas of health physics.
- Demonstrate ability to follow supervision and to perform assigned tasks on an independent basis during routine and emergency operations.
- Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Science and STEM background and an interest in learning and performing health and safety and health physics techniques and skills.
- Ability to lift or move 20-50 pounds.
- A desire to foster equity and inclusion in one's team and throughout the university.
- A commitment to VCU's core competencies of accountability/integrity; achievement; collaboration; diversity; innovation; and service excellence.
- Demonstrated experience fostering a diverse and inclusive environment and an expressed commitment to do so while at VCU.
- Graduation from an accredited community college or university with major course work in physical or biological sciences, with additional coursework in health physics or a related radiological field.
- An equivalent combination of training and experience may substitute for this education and experience.
- Knowledge of the principles and practice of health physics and applicable State and Federal radiation control standards and regulations.
- Knowledge of instrumentation used in radiation detection and measurement and applications for processing data from instruments.
