Epidemiologist – Occupational Fatality Surveillance

Description

About BeVera Solutions, LLC 

BeVera Solutions, LLC is a rapidly growing public health and professional services company that provides innovative solutions to federal and state agencies. Our team supports mission-critical programs through expertise in program management, communications, acquisition, data analytics, and public health initiatives. BeVera’s CEO champions a people-first culture where every employee is valued. The company supports this commitment by offering competitive compensation and meaningful, impactful work assignments.  

Recognized as one of Atlanta’s Best Places to Work (2024 & 2025 & 2026) by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, BeVera fosters a culture of integrity, excellence, and collaboration.

Job Description Essential Duties

BeVera Solutions is seeking an experienced Epidemiologist specializing in occupational injury and fatality surveillance to support a federal public health program focused on improving worker safety and health. The Epidemiologist will support surveillance, epidemiologic analysis, data modernization, and scientific research involving occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, with particular emphasis on workers in the oil and gas extraction industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Support surveillance of occupational injuries, illnesses, fatalities, and related worker safety and health factors.
• Evaluate and compare methodologies for identifying and collecting worker fatality data.
• Review existing processes used to identify fatalities, extract information from available records, transform information into structured data fields, and maintain durable surveillance datasets.
• Map newly collected fatality data to existing surveillance data models and identify data gaps, inconsistencies, or concordance issues.
• Conduct epidemiologic analyses, interpret findings, and translate results into useful scientific and public health products.
• Help develop, evaluate, and document modern approaches to improving surveillance, potentially including machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, or automated classification.
• Prepare technical documentation, reports, abstracts, presentations, and other scientific products.
• Contribute to peer-reviewed manuscripts and other NIOSH-led scientific products.
• Collaborate with federal scientists and external occupational safety and health stakeholders.
• Participate in regular project meetings, stakeholder engagements, and required progress reporting.

NOTE: Position Contingent upon award of contract.  This role is part of a pre-award candidate search for an upcoming federal government contract.  Employment is contingent upon BeVera Solutions receiving the contract award, final Government approval, funding, and any applicable client or contract requirements. 

Requirements

This position has specific mandatory education and specialized-experience requirements. Candidates must meet all of the minimum qualifications below. 

Required Qualifications

• Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in Epidemiology.
• At least two (2) years of specialized professional experience conducting surveillance of workplace fatalities in oil and gas extraction and/or related industries.
• Demonstrated experience working with occupational fatality or worker safety and health surveillance data.
• Demonstrated experience independently carrying out epidemiologic, surveillance, or related research activities.
• Professional experience performing data analysis and preparing reports and/or presentations.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills and strong organizational skills. 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and shifting priorities; strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in implementing best practices in a public health setting.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high quality/error free deliverables
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

  Highly Desired Experience

• Previous experience supporting NIOSH, CDC, or another federal occupational safety and health program.
• Direct experience with the oil and gas extraction (OGE) industry and worker safety and health.
• Experience with the NIOSH Fatalities in Oil and Gas (FOG) database or a comparable occupational fatality surveillance system.
• Experience identifying fatality cases from multiple data sources or records.
• Experience abstracting, transforming, structuring, linking, and managing surveillance data.
• Experience modernizing an existing public health surveillance system or transitioning from a legacy data-collection methodology.
• Experience mapping new data to an established surveillance data model.
• Experience evaluating surveillance-system attributes such as data quality, sensitivity, timeliness, representativeness, predictive value, stability, or efficiency.
• Epidemiologic or statistical analysis using R, SAS, Python, SQL, or comparable analytical tools.
• Experience applying machine learning, natural language processing, AI, or automated approaches to surveillance or public health data.
• Experience developing peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, scientific presentations, or other scientific products.
• Familiarity with NIOSH Western States Division, the NIOSH Oil and Gas Extraction Program, NORA, or the Oil and Gas Extraction Sector Council.

Work Environment

• Full-time position supporting a federal public health customer.
• Work may be performed from an approved U.S. telework location, subject to federal customer approval.
• Occasional travel or in-person participation may be required for customer or stakeholder meetings.
• The position may involve access to personally identifiable information (PII), participation in human-subjects research activities, and access to federal facilities and systems.
• The selected individual may be required to obtain and maintain appropriate federal identification/access credentials.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. An Equal Opportunity Employer. BeVera's hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.