This position is located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) with one vacancy located in San Diego, CA. This position is also announced under vacancy number NMFS SWFSC-24-12146619-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both. ZA-3 $78,307 - $122,016 ZA-4 $111,609 - $171,452

Duties

As a Safety and Occupational Health Manager, you will perform the following duties: Establish, write and administer policies and procedural guidance for safety and occupational health. Identify, plan and implement new program requirements or changes to existing safety and occupational health techniques. Evaluate facilities and prioritize improvement projects to address safety issues or concerns. Develop and oversee annual safety goals and objectives, the collection and analysis of research, set priorities to meet goals, provide expertise in chemical hazards and perform annual reviews to ensure safety and occupational health concerns are addressed. Investigate and report accidents, injuries, illnesses, and spills within seven days of event or reporting of event to determine root cause and provide corrective plans if needed. Identify safety deficiencies and potential hazardous work processes and materials and unsafe conditions to provide recommended resolutions multiple ways including in prevention SOPs you develop for the command. Represent your command for congressional inquiries, safety and occupational health committees, meetings, workshops seminars and conferences. Provide technical and managerial advice and work with local municipalities to ensure facilities are up to code. Duties described above are at the full performance ZA-04 level, the ZA-03 level is developmental to the 04

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. A. 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. -OR- B. Experience: Experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To qualify for the ZA-03 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-02 or GS-09 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Provide recommendations on corrective actions to address safety, environmental and occupational health deficiencies identified during investigations. Assist with mishap investigations and gathering information on causes for the mishap. Provide assistance with facility management to help ensure they remain in compliance with safety, environmental, fire regulations/standards. OR A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M with a major study in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or 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. OR A combination of education and experience as described above. Only graduate level education more than 2 years is creditable for combination of education and experience. To qualify for the ZA-04 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-03 or GS-12 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Determine corrective actions to address deficiencies identified in safety and occupational health investigations. Perform mishap investigations and identifies causal factors through interviews. Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, fire regulations/standards.

Education

There is not an education requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Amanda Robinson
• Email: [email protected]