You will serve as a Safety & Occupational Health Specialist in the Occupational Safety and Health Office, Safety Department, Naval Submarine Support Facility New London, in Groton, CT.

Duties

You will perform safety and health compliance inspections to detect and remedy safety hazards and practices. You will conduct comprehensive safety and occupational health inspections, evaluations, and surveys of all industrial buildings, dry-dock and water front piers. You will apply regulations, standards and sound safety practices to detect hazardous operations and conditions. You will recommend proper safety and occupational health measures to eliminate or minimize the possibility of injury to personnel and damage to property. You will monitor all aspects of the Occupational Safety and Health Program to ensure regulatory compliance. You will maintain the Enterprise Safety Management System (ESAMS) to report injuries and illnesses for military and civilian personnel. You will conduct on-site investigations of motor vehicles, industrial and personal injury accidents to ascertain facts, causal relationships, and determine abatement/corrective action. You will conduct Safety and Occupational Health Training in areas including respiratory protection, personal protection, sight conservation, hearing conservation, back injury prevention, hazardous material control, asbestos, and office safety.

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.
• Selectee may be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• 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.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You may be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• This is a bargaining unit position.

Qualifications

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In order to qualify for this position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year (52 weeks) 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 is defined as experience that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience applying occupational safety and occupational health principles, techniques, practices, and standards. Experience understanding and interpreting a full range of complex safety and occupational health laws or other regulatory requirements for high hazard, heavy industrial operations and processes. Experience performing safety and health compliance inspections to detect and remedy safety hazards and practices. Experience applying general industry and maritime standards or other practices and procedures required to evaluate and conduct quality assurance audits of assigned safety programs. Experience with the Ergonomic Program and the ability to understand procedures to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control hazards associated with the work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders. Experience with the Mishap Program in order to investigate and report mishaps to determine trend analysis. Experience with Explosive Safety Program administration and execution of explosive operations. 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/0000/safety-and-occupational-health-management-series-0018/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards 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

SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE:

Applicants may substitute the following education for the required experience, provided it demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work of the position:

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.

Substitution of Graduate Education Requirements: 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.

COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be used to meet the total qualification requirements.

Are you using your education to qualify? For positions requiring positive education requirements, or if you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned). See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL SUBMARINE SUPPORT FACILITY 15 Mohegan New London, CT 06320-8100 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]