This position, located at the Oklahoma City VA HCS, serves as the Chief, Environment of Care Service and is responsible for directing, planning, developing, and implementing comprehensive programs for Safety, Fire Protection, GEMS, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Laser Safety, and Radiation Safety Programs.

Duties

This position has the following Major Duties include but are not limited to: Oversees, monitors, and evaluates occupational health and safety activities Administratively manages all facilities, clinical staff, and safety programs to provide the patients, visitors, and staff of OKCVAHCS, including all outpatient clinics with the highest attainable level of safety possible and identifies opportunities for improvement through an ongoing effort of problem identification, evaluation, resolution, monitoring, and evaluation Responsible for the supervision, planning, and direction of work operations Supervises a staff of interdisciplinary specialists responsible for program areas of Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health & Safety, and GEMS, which includes staffing, budgeting, procuring, and training Responsible for ensuring work assignments of the team are carried out by performing a range of duties such as: employee work plans, organizes, administers, and evaluates Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, decontamination, and GEMS Develops and coordinates the implementation of internal policies and programs to the EOC service relating to equal employment, merit promotion, position management, and employee relations and ensures support for these programs for program managers, team leaders, and subordinate mangers Will periodically hold staff meetings to solicit the flow of ideas and suggestions and will encourage and support on-the job training and broaden incumbent training to provide back-up skills by cross-training Plans, directs, monitors, coordinates and evaluates a comprehensive agency safety, industrial hygiene, and fire protection program for all sites of care within the OKCVAHCS and all outpatient clinics. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am- 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Safety & Occupational Health Manager/PD131340 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, 07/02/2024. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. 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. This series has the following Individual Occupational Requirement: Undergraduate and 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, 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. 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. You may 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-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Expert level knowledge of safety and occupational health concepts, principles, techniques, practices, laws, and regulations sufficient to enable the manager to plan, organize, administer, coordinate, and evaluate wide-ranging occupational health and occupational safety programs as a technical authority, for the area assigned that includes problems that are not readily addressed by accepted methods or involve far reaching decisions or recommendations: Expert level knowledge and skill in the use of innovative criteria, data, and techniques to identify and analyze safety and occupational health problems sufficient to recommend substantive program changes that solve highly technical/complex problems and challenges requiring new or modified concepts and theories: Must be able to serve as a safety expert, conducting onsite inspections, evaluating procedures, developing innovative technologies which will carry the health care system into the future. Must be able to evaluate construction hazards which can include effects of stress and straining, strength, stability, AC/DC flow, grounding paths etc., the incumbent must be able to effectively develop controls and identify emergencies resources that would require corrective actions: and knowledge and ability to conduct safety and health studies and investigations, analyze findings, make recommendations, prepare reports, and related skill in organizing and delivering briefings to pertinent parties to encourage an understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations. Preferred Experience: Knowledge and experience in oversight of Occupational Health and Safety Program programs to include GEMS, safety, laser safety, occupational health, fire protection, industrial hygiene, hazardous waste, radiation safety, biomedical waste disposal, and disaster planning. Preferred Experience Selective Placement Factor Quality Ranking Factor Resume Panel Name Experience with direct staff supervision, initiative and standard operating procedure development and implementation, budget management, and planning activities. Experience collaborating with department and work group leadership while preparing for accreditation survey/ compliance, and overseeing successful operation of environmental programs evidenced by results. Oversight experience includes supervision of Occupational Health and Safety programs including GEMS, safety, occupational health, fire protection, industrial hygiene, hazardous waste, and biomedical waste disposal. Experience directing staff supervision, initiative standard operating procedure development and implementation, budget management, human resources management, and planning activities. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Creative ThinkingCustomer ServiceDecision MakingEnvironmental EngineeringManaging Human Resources 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: Most work is performed in an office or workplace setting, and the work is sedentary in nature. There may be some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of light items, occasionally carrying moderate weight items, but no specific physical demands are required to perform the work. 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

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

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 Oklahoma City VA Health Care System 921 Northeast 13th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73104 US
• Name: Wyolene Varner Finch
• Phone: 678-592-7734
• Email: [email protected]