The Institutional Safety and Quality Branch, Institutional Division, Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Directorate, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), is seeking to hire a supervisory Safety and Occupational Health Manager. You will provide direction to Safety and Occupational Health Specialists that provide institutional safety support for KSC across program areas including facility inspection, safety consultation, mishap investigation, emergency response, construction safety, and contractor insight.

Duties

Obtains resources and identifies strategic objectives for the organization. Defines jobs, selects employees, and assigns work; defines technical work requirements and milestones; evaluates the organization and employee accomplishments by accepting or rejecting work products. Recommends employee promotions and recognition; approves leave; implements performance modifications and takes corrective actions as appropriate. Provides employees resources and information that ensures a safe/healthy work environment. Plans, develops, and implements a comprehensive Center institutional safety program dealing with high safety risk activities and constantly changing hazards. Ensures contractor compliance and provides insight for program and safety requirements. Ensures implementation of new Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) programs and activities at the Center as the need is recognized. Responsible for ensuring compliance by Center personnel with applicable regulations and laws including but not limited to 29 CFR 1960, 29 CFR 1926, and other applicable safety and health mandates. Develops statements of work, defines resource requirements, projects cost and completion objectives. Develops policies and objectives and manages the performance evaluation of the contractor.

Requirements

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement
• A one year supervisory probationary period may be required

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Proficiency in safety and occupational health concepts, principles, laws, regulations, and precedent decisions which provide the capability to recommend substantive program changes to the resolution of safety and occupational health management problems at KSC; Serving as a technical expert in the interpretation and application of NASA and KSC safety and health regulations and procedural requirements (e.g. NPR 8715.3 and KNPR 8715.3) and in the interpretation and compliance with OSHA standards, such as 29 CFR 1960, 29 CFR 1926, and other applicable safety and health mandates; Directing or leading teams to meet project goals and requirements; Consulting, advising and negotiating solutions with management, S&MA engineers, and program officials concerning compliance with procedures and processes related to NASA and KSC safety programs. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Kennedy Space Center Space Commerce Way Titusville, FL 32899 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]