This position is located at the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center and assigned to Safety, Health, Environmental & Emergency Management. This position operates under the direct supervision and guidance of the Medical Center Occupational Safety and Health Manager. The incumbent's duties will include the development of well-researched recommendations for occupational health, safety, and fire protection program elements, and implementation of these recommendations as directed.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to the following: Develop well researched recommendations for occupational health, safety, and fire protection elements along with implementation of these recommendations as directed.Inspect and evaluate medical center and institutional environments for occupational health and safety hazards and to determine compliance with applicable regulations, standards, codes, and requirements. Investigate accidents, which may include those involving fatalities and serious injury. Determine circumstances that involve interviewing witnesses. Verify reports to add pertinent comments or corrective action as required. nitiate and prepare all required reports. Recommend medical surveillance based on identified physical and environmental stressors or conditions. Conduct Life Safety Code (NFPA 101) compliance assessments of the medical center, institutional environments, veteran state nursing homes, and contracted facilities such as but not limited to community nursing homes, adult daycare facilities, and veteran homeless shelters. Interpret specifications and sketched to conduct appropriate inspections of in-house and contract facilities. Work Schedule: 7:30-16:00 No Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Safety and Occupational Health Specialist/PD111350 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS):Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-9. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Safety and Occupational Health Management Series, 0018 Individual Occupational Requirements SpecializedExperience: Experience GS-11: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. 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. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Managing safety or occupational health program elements. Developing and 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. 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 COR certification and/or at least two years of experience as COR managing safety service contract occupational health nurse. OR, Education GS-11: (Applicants may substitute education for the required experience Copy of Transcript required). To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 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. Graduate Education: 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. OR, Combination GS-11: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to Ph.D. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Accident Investigation Teaching Others Risk Management Compliance Qualifying Ranking Factor: COR certification and/or at least two years of experience as COR managing safety service contract 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work environment consists of standard office settings, labs, patient wards, mechanical equipment spaces, roofs, crawl spaces and construction sites. The incumbent's work regularly involves exposure to hazards such as moving machinery, infectious diseases, shielded radiation sources, toxic chemicals and gases, flammables, high noise levels, high and low temperatures, electrical shock, etc. He/she must utilize proper protective equipment and clothing such as hard hats, safety shoes, earmuffs, goggles, respirators, gloves, etc. when in these situations. It may require emergency call back at night and during other natural or human caused disaster and fire incidents. Veterans' Preference: When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference on the Occupational Assessment Questionnaire in the section provided and provide a legible copy of ALL your DD214(s) and/or documentation related to all periods of active-duty military service which shows dates of service, character of service (honorable, general, etc.), or dates of impending separation. Additionally, disabled veterans and others eligible for 10-point preference (such as widows or mothers of eligible Veterans) must also submit an SF-15 "Application for 10 Point Veterans Preference" with required proof as stated on the SF-15 form. For more information, please review the information for disabled Veterans in the application checklist or visit http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx .

Education

PLEASE NOTE: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications (particularly positions with a positive education requirement). Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html.

All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

Contacts

• Address Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center 3701 Loop Road East Tuscaloosa, AL 35404 US
• Name: Ciara Gaines
• Phone: 205-554-3728
• Email: [email protected]