What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position? GS-13 Salary: $109,107 (Step 01) to $141,836 (Step 10); NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.

Duties

As a Safety and Occupational Health Manager within the Office of Management Services, some of your specific duties will include:

Requirements

Qualifications

Definitions: UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: A year of undergraduate education is 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours or the equivalent of college study. This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university for which high school graduation or the equivalent was a prerequisite. GRADUATE EDUCATION: In the absence of specific graduate program information, a year of graduate education is 18 semester hours or 27 quarter hours of graduate level college course work, or the number of credit hours the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full time study. This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Specialized experience is 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 to be filled. Examples of qualifying specialized experience may include: Managing safety or occupational health program elements. Developing or recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management. Applying safety and occupational health laws, regulations, principles, theories, practices, and procedures to advise on or resolve technical matters dealing with occupational safety and health requirements. Developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards. Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses. Analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards. Designing or modifying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards. Inspecting or surveying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems for compliance with established safety and occupational health policies or standards and to identify potential new hazards. Training of workers, supervisors, managers, or other safety and occupational health personnel in safety or occupational health subjects. Work in occupational fields such as industrial hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, and occupational health nurse. GS-13: Applicants must have one year of appropriate specialized experience as defined above under "Definitions". To be creditable, this specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of GS-12 level experience may include: 1) representing safety and health interests serving on Bureau teams and committees; 2) conducting field level compliance inspections and regional program evaluations to identify and evaluating risk potential involving a wide variety of work environments, occupations and operations; 3) managing national level accident, audit or hazard analysis databases/systems and directed investigation of accidents, analyzing precipitating factors and causal data using Tableau software, and developing methods for prevention or abatement; 4) recommending application of safety and health principles and training on safety and health topics at all levels of the organization; 5) managing safety and health programs specific to automatic defibrillators, lab safety, and occupant emergency plans, 6) Coordinating work or collaborating with staff in the specialized occupational fields i.e., aviation, diving firearms, large vessels, radiation, watercraft, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, safety engineering, and fire prevention. 7) developing and coordinating novel or innovative safety awareness and promotion activities. For examples 1-6, the work is performed independently to set branch priorities, objectives, and strategies in alignment with Bureau goals. As the technical expert, the incumbent determines the approach and methods to be used and directs subordinate staff in effectively providing specialized safety program (aviation, diving, firearms, large vessels, ionizing radiation and watercraft) support and solutions to highly complex issues and concerns to Associate and Regional Directors, Regional Safety Managers, and local management, supervisors and employees. You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement. CONTINUED FROM REQUIREMENTS SECTION Throughout the recruitment and hiring process we will be communicating with you via email; therefore, it is imperative that the email address you provide when applying for this vacancy remains active. Should your email address change, please notify the point of contact identified in the vacancy announcement as soon as possible so that we can update our system. If you are a Federal employee applying for a promotion (under merit promotion procedures) you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

• 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.
• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: https://www.usgs.gov/about/organization/science-support/human-capital/how-foreign-education-evaluated-federal-jobs .

Contacts

• Address OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY BR 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 600 Reston, VA 20192 US
• Name: Danial Anthon
• Phone: 303-236-9197
• Email: [email protected]