Individual Occupational Requirements for
GS-698: Environmental Health Technician Series
The text below is extracted verbatim from
Section IV-B of the Operating Manual for Qualification Standards
for General Schedule Positions (p.IV-B-127), but contains minor edits
to conform to web-page requirements.
Use these individual occupational requirements in conjunction with
the "Group Coverage Qualification Standard for
Technical and Medical Support Positions."
Experience that
involved identifying, preventing, or eliminating health hazards in one or more areas of
environmental sanitation. Such experience must have provided a practical knowledge of environmental
health hazards, survey techniques, and control and eradication methods, and may have been gained in
work such as biological technician, medical technician, pest control technician, quality control
positions with dairy or food service industries, or environmental health worker.
Journey level experience in a trade or craft may be credited as specialized experience when the
work was closely associated with and provided the required knowledge of environmental health
techniques, methods, and skills, e.g., pest control operator, waterplant operator.
OR
For GS-3: |
Successful completion of l year of study. |
For GS-4: |
Successful completion of 2 years of study that included at least 12 semester hours in any
combination of courses in the health, agricultural, biological, or physical sciences. |
For GS-5: |
Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with
major study or at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses in subjects such as
those shown above for GS-4. |
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