This position serves as the National Director of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Management program. This position is responsible for overseeing the development of a broad range of guidelines and regulations for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) application. Incumbent will serves as the principal advisor to the Deputy Under Secretary for Support Services in matters relating to Safety and Health Program for all VHA employees.

Duties

Supervises a group of employees performing work in the engineering field, including program support positions, in the OSH Management programs. Establishes major program goals and determines priorities for their accomplishment. Establishes guidelines and performances expectations for staff members that are clearly communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Serves as the senior advisor and management official with responsibilities for several engineering program areas relating to Safety and Health Program for all VHA employees, Green Environmental Management System (GEMS), Fire/Life Safety Program (FLSP) for the VHA, Federal Employee Compensation Act (FECA), Office of Workers Compensation Program (OWCP), Employee Occupational Health (EOH), and Occupational Medical Surveillance (OMS). Develops work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary. Ensures compliance with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA), Federal, State and local regulations. Develops and implements national policy and represents and/or chairs VHA on various National Fire Protection Association committees that are designed to establish national consensus standards. Develops and implements the environmental and safety management systems for the national GEMS program. Develops Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and GEMS centered training to meet compliance requirements. Sets the overall national goals and priorities and provides programmatic oversight. Monitors compliance with FECA and OWCP through the collaborative development and implantation of particular key performance metrics and field network level oversight. Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday - Friday Compressed/Flexible: May be available Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Industrial Hygienist/PD031270 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): 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, 05/15/2024. 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-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and education s described below: Basic Requirement: Applicants must meet one of the following: A bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related science; or A bachelor's degree in a branch of engineering, physical science, or life science that included 12 semester hours in chemistry, including organic chemistry, and 18 additional semester hours of courses in any combination of chemistry, physics, engineering, health physics, environmental health, biostatistics, biology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, or industrial hygiene; or Certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene(external link) (ABIH). Note: Transcripts and/or certification required. Courses in the history or teaching of chemistry are not acceptable. Evaluation of Education: All science or engineering courses offered in fulfillment of the above requirements must be acceptable for credit toward the completion of a standard 4-year professional curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in science or engineering at an accredited college or university. For engineering degrees to be acceptable, the curriculum must be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) as a professional engineering curriculum. Evaluation of Experience: Qualifying experience involves the recognition, evaluation, corrective actions, and elimination of environmental conditions in the workplace that causes sickness, impaired health, or illness. This experience must demonstrate a professional knowledge of the theory and application of the principles of industrial hygiene and closely related sciences such as physics and engineering controls. Such work must have involved experience in all of the following areas: the acquisition of quantitative and qualitative data, and the measurement of exposures for a variety of chemical, physical, and biological stresses; the analysis of the data acquired and the prediction of probable effects of exposures on the health and well-being of workers; and the selection and recommendation of appropriate controls, including management, medical, engineering, education or training, and personal protective equipment. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, you must also qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-14 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: 1) Utilizing expert knowledge in communication, conflict resolution, and decision making; 2) Serving as the senior advisor and management official with responsibilities for several engineering program areas relating to Safety and Health Program for all VHA employees, Green Environmental Management System (GEMS), Fire/Life Safety Program (FLSP) for the VHA, Federal Employee Compensation Act (FECA), Office of Workers Compensation Program (OWCP), Employee Occupational Health (EOH), and Occupational Medical Surveillance (OMS); 3) Setting overall national goals and priorities and provides programmatic oversight; 4) Utilizing expert knowledge and the ability to perform very broad and extensive study assignments related to government programs that are of significant interest to the public and congress; and 5) Establishing major program goals and determines priorities for their accomplishments. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Leadership Compliance External Awareness Planning and Evaluating 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. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VSHO - Support Services 2402 Wildwood Ave Suite 301 Sherwood, AR 72120 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]