This position is located in the United States Mint, Manufacturing Department, Safety, Environmental & Occupational Health Division of the San Francisco Mint, The purpose of this position is to assist the Plant Superintendent, Deputy Plant Superintendent, facility managers, and other stakeholders in the overall planning, training, direction, coordination, evaluation, and implementation of Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment (OSHE) programs.

Duties

As a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST, you will: Develop facility-wide safety and environmental programs, procedures, and guidelines designed to comply with specific regulatory requirements, such as, but not limited to confined space entry, hazardous waste, chemical spill response, fire emergency response/evacuation, workers' compensation, and hazardous communication. Complete safety studies, various occupational reviews on a number of occupational matters (i.e. proposed engineering plans, construction contracts, and related matters) and provide technical written or oral advisory for consideration by management and other key stakeholders. Evaluate all of the plant's hazardous materials, associated industrial and plant engineering work protocol, and conduct inspections of all work areas of the assigned plant; ensures compliance with OSHA, NFPA, and EPA regulations. Compile and maintain statistical and detailed data on accidents and injuries that occur within the assigned facility, as well as related data on all staff within assigned facility. Serve as the technical advisor for disseminating guidance to plant management concerning the plant's compliance with emissions regulations from federal, state, and local governing bodies, organizations, and stakeholders.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience: For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: - Assisting with planning, coordinating, and evaluating a comprehensive safety, environmental hygiene and occupational health program. OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 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 You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education. Education must include major study as follows: 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.

Contacts

• Address San Francisco Mint - MANUF DEPT/Plant Mgr CA/SAFETY, ENVIRON AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH DIV Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]