You will serve as a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER in the NAVY CONSOLIDATED BRIGS DIVISION of NAVCONBRIG NWS.

Duties

You will revise safety training instructions and guidelines to incorporate changes Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) rules and regulations. You will deliver formal safety and occupational health training sessions or classes to promote safety. You will administer safety programs (e.g., medical surveillance, respiratory protection programs) to verify scheduling and tracking are updated for occupational safety and health program. You will use Safety and Occupational Health principles, practice and procedures to develop and recommend the implementation and management of safety and health programs. You will recommend corrective actions required to prevent recurrences of accidents and incidents. You will conduct safety and occupational health inspections, evaluations, and surveys of industrial facilities to identify, control, mitigate and eliminate safety hazards.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Developing, organizing and evaluating safety related programs within an organization using knowledge of the concepts, principles, laws, regulations, policies and goals pertaining to correctional facility operations; 2) Applying knowledge of the American Correctional Association Standards when evaluating or modifying new procedures and processes to control or eliminate hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions; 3) Liaising with outside agencies or other correctional facilities to coordinate measures to correct hazardous conditions (i.e., unsafe work practices, unguarded machine operations, fire hazards, etc.); 4) Preparing reports, proposals, charts and graphs for presentations and briefings. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

In addition to minimum qualifications, you must possess 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., if related or be certified as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or Certified Health Physicist (CHP), or similar certification that included successful completion of a written examination.

Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified in the table, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11.

Contacts

• Address NAVCONBRIG NWS 1050 Remount Rd Bldg 3107 Charleston, SC 29406 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]