The State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is looking to hire an Environmental Protection Radiation Control Specialist to work within the Radiation Division’s Diagnostic and Therapeutic X-Ray Unit located in Hartford, CT.
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POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
- This position is full-time, following a first shift schedule, 40 hours per week, and scheduled Monday – Friday.
- The EP Radiation Control Specialist will conduct inspections of facilities for compliance with the requirements of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 and its amendments.
- You will conduct inspections for and provide necessary technical knowledge and experience to the Department of Public Health to ensure hospitals and outpatient facilities are conducting x-ray and other radiology procedures in a manner that will protect the health and safety of workers, the general public and patients in accordance with the requirements of federal and Connecticut regulations.
- You will also perform radiation measurements as part of a field monitoring team supporting the Radiological Emergency Plan (REP) for nuclear facilities in the state.
- As an EP Radiation Control Specialist, you will also draft informal enforcement actions to those facilities that utilize ionizing radiation (i.e. mammography and x-ray facilities).
PLEASE NOTE: The ideal candidate will be MQSA certified. We will provide the hired candidate the opportunity to successfully complete and pass the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) course work and MQSA certification administered by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the first year of employment.
ABOUT US
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is charged with conserving, improving and protecting the natural resources and the environment of the state of Connecticut as well as making cheaper, cleaner and more reliable energy available for the people and businesses of the state. The agency is also committed to playing a positive role in rebuilding Connecticut’s economy and creating jobs – and to fostering a sustainable and prosperous economic future for the state.
The Radiation Division ensures the safe and secure possession, use, transportation, and disposal of radioactive material and radiation producing machinery. The Diagnostic and Therapeutic X-Ray unit is responsible for registration of facilities using x-ray and other radiation producing machines in the healing arts. The unit ensures devices are operated in compliance with Federal and Connecticut regulations in order to ensure radiation exposures to the general public and employees are maintained are safe levels, adverse impacts to the environment are minimized, and radiation exposures to patients is at the lowest practical level consistent with clinical needs.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS – GENERAL EXPERIENCE
Six (6) years of experience as an X-ray technician.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS – SPECIAL EXPERIENCE
Incumbents must possess and retain certification and registration by the ARRT (American Registry of Radiologic Technologists) as a Registered Technologist.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS – SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED
College training with a major in the physical sciences may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor’s degree.
Graduation from an educational program accredited by a mechanism acceptable to ARRT for radiology may be substituted for the General Experience up to a maximum of two years.