SAFETY & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER with Security Clearance

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• Plans, directs, coordinates, and evaluates activities necessary to the overall management of a diverse occupational safety program.
• Plans, directs and conducts investigations and analyzes of mishaps and hazardous conditions to determine origin, causes, and contributing elements and prepares written evaluation reports concerning findings and proposed recommendations.
• Prepares supplements to instructions and manuals and develops specialized local instructions defining mishap prevention programs and procedures based on interpretation and/or adaptation of higher command instructions and policies.
• Reviews plans and specifications for new construction, major building alterations, and/or changes in equipment and monitors project through completion to ensure compliance with safety codes and standards.
• Develops and provides technical safety training/instruction to supervisors, employees, and/or unit safety representatives on a wide range of work operations areas.
• Areas such as traffic safety techniques, proper storage of hazardous materials, common laboratory hazards, and building evacuation procedures; including instruction on Risk Management to cadets in training.

• Will include incentive for prior work or active-duty experience to determine leave accrual
• This position is Centrally Managed by the Safety Career Field, PCS cost will be paid IAW JTR and Air Force Regulations, DNRP is authorized.
• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see www.sss.gov
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance.
• PCS expenses if authorized will be paid IAW JTR and Air Force Regulations
• Recruitment incentives may/may not be authorized
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
• Incumbent may occasionally be required to be in an on-call status outside normal duty hours or on holidays
• Work may require occasional travel away from the normal duty station.
• Disclosure of Political Appointments
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• Plans, directs, coordinates, and evaluates activities necessary to the overall management of a diverse occupational safety program.
• Plans, directs and conducts investigations and analyzes of mishaps and hazardous conditions to determine origin, causes, and contributing elements and prepares written evaluation reports concerning findings and proposed recommendations.
• Prepares supplements to instructions and manuals and develops specialized local instructions defining mishap prevention programs and procedures based on interpretation and/or adaptation of higher command instructions and policies formulated by other federal government agencies.
• Reviews plans and specifications for new construction, major building alterations, and/or changes in equipment and monitors project through completion to ensure compliance with safety codes and standards.
• Develops and provides technical safety training/instruction to supervisors, employees, and/or unit safety representatives on a wide range of work operations areas, such as traffic safety techniques, proper storage of hazardous materials, common laboratory hazards, and building evacuation procedures; including instruction on Risk Management to cadets in training.

QUALIFICATIONS: In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Administrative and Management Positions.

1. Developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management.
2. Applying safety and occupational health laws, regulations, principles, theories, practices, and procedures to advise on or resolve technical matters dealing with occupational safety and health requirements.
3. Developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards.
4. Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses.
5. Analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards.
6. Designing or modifying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards.
7. Inspecting or surveying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems for compliance with established safety and occupational health policies or standards and to identify potential new hazards.
8. Training of workers, supervisors, managers, or other safety and occupational health personnel in safety or occupational health subjects.

FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-­grade requirements to be considered eligible.

TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks.

• Knowledge of complex safety and occupational health principles, practices, procedures, laws, regulations, and current legislative issues as they relate to the military installation occupational safety program; the requirements, methods, and techniques of accident/mishap investigation, analysis, resolution of safety problems, and formal reporting procedures; and risk assessment methods and techniques for evaluation of safety and occupational health risks.
• Knowledge of basic safety construction standards, methods, practices, techniques, materials, and equipment to determine compliance with regulations and standards.
• Knowledge of standard training techniques, methods, and materials sufficient to develop and present formal training and instructional sessions.
• Skill in conducting mishap investigations; analyzing and evaluating hazardous conditions; preparing reports and recommendations and addressing risk assessment methods and techniques for safety code compliance.
• Skill in the interpretation of engineering drawings and specifications sufficient to identify hazardous conditions in proposed facilities.
• Ability to plan, organize work, and meet deadlines.

Physical Demands: Work requires regular and recurring physical exertion related to frequent onsite inspections and surveys requiring considerable standing, walking, climbing, bending, crouching, stretching, reaching, or similar movements.

Work Environment: Work involves regular and recurring exposure to hazards, unpleasantness, and discomforts such as moving machine parts, shielded radiation sources, irritant chemicals, acid fumes, physical stresses, high noise levels, adverse weather conditions, and high temperatures from steam lines.

Protective equipment and clothing may be needed, including, but not limited to, hard hat, appropriate safety shoes, ear muffs or plugs, goggles, respirators, and gloves.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work.

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study

• safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from among the following (or closely related) disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology.

Additional information Current or Former Federal Civilian Employees (Includes current Air Force employees): You are required to submit legible copy/copies of your last or most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, (block 24 must be a "1" or "2" AND block 34 must be a"1").

Additionally, if you are applying for a higher grade (GS) and your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstrates you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective date more than one year old) Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click here .

To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated well qualified or above for this position.

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