As a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist with the White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) Safety and Mission Assurance Office, you will manage safety aspects of the WSTF, including managing safety programs, employing safety systems, enforcing safety policy, and managing training to increase safety and decrease injuries, illnesses, and losses. You will oversee programs that review procurement actions, review and report discipline-specific programs and perform inspections of work areas.

Duties

Design, construct, manage, and maintain a comprehensive plan for institutional and operational safety, including development of policy and guidelines for an industrial environment that includes working with hazardous aerospace fluids. Develop and manage safety program elements and systems to aid in the establishment and maintenance of a strong safety program, including identifying effectiveness and efficiency improvements. Establish and enforce occupational safety standards by encouraging, assisting, and monitoring organizations in developing and operating programs to assure safe working conditions and encouraging efforts to reduce occupational injuries. Determine employee and supervisor training and education resource needs to reduce or eliminate potential accident-related losses; analyzes accident and injury/illness data, applicable legislation, current safety programs, and job hazards. Oversee a program whereby safety professionals review equipment or service purchases for safety implications and recommend alternative or amended solutions to improve safety or avoid potential accident-related losses. Provide comprehensive safety program reviews and responses to Agency data calls, as required, compliant with appropriate regulatory requirements and Agency policy. Develop procedures for measuring, reporting, evaluating, and researching safety and occupational health performance data; prepare plans, schedules, and forms for collecting required data. Assess, regulate, and preserve environmental conditions to minimize adverse effects on the safety of individuals working in an industrial environment that includes hazardous aerospace fluids. Establish and maintain a comprehensive inspection program (including formal, special, and incidental inspections) that provides workplace environmental information. Inspect work areas, as necessary, to identify and eliminate unsafe and unhealthful environmental conditions. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

Requirements

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
• A one-year probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify at the GS-13 level, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level: Developing and/or implementing plans for institutional and operational safety consistent with agency requirements and coordinating with management for needed personnel and resources; Evaluating hazards associated with hypergolic fluids (e.g., hydrazine, monomethylhydrazine, dinitrogen tetroxide), cryogenic fluids (e.g., liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen), or other energetic aerospace fluids (e.g., liquid methane, nitrous oxide, hydrogen peroxide); Reviewing safety program elements (e.g., hazard communication, confined space entry, process safety management, respiratory protection, fall protection) for compliance with regulatory and procedural requirements and recognized consensus standards. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Johnson Space Center 2101 NASA Parkway Houston, TX 77058 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]