Salary: GS11 - $80,665 (Step 01) to $104,861 (Step 10); GS11 - $96,684 (Step 01) to $125,685 (Step 10); NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01. This position and is being advertised concurrently with the following announcements: Open to current or former Federal employees: USGS-DEN-24-12488068-ST-MDB

Duties

As a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist within the Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, 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. For GS-11: Applicants must meet one of the following to qualify for the GS-11 level: ** Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education (54 semester hours, 81 quarter hours or the equivalent) leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in safety, occupational health, or industrial hygiene. Or a Ph.D. degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hrs or the equivalent 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. To be creditable, the education must have provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work of the position to be filled. **OR 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-9 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of GS-09 level experience may include: providing safety and occupational health services, such as, but not limited to, developing health and occupational safety programs for different science centers and individual laboratories, reviewing laboratory safety procedures and guidelines, researching and making recommendations on personal protective equipment (PPE), conducting job hazard analyses (JHAs), providing hazard recognition training, conducting or arranging for safety training for field operations, tracking and recording the completion of require safety training courses, tracking the purchase, storage, usage, and disposal of hazardous or volatile chemicals and materials, and overseeing compliance for safety procedures for both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. **OR a combination of successfully completed graduate level education, as described above, that is beyond the second year of progressive graduate study and specialized experience, as described above. (CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO COMBINE GRADUATE EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE) For GS-12: Applicants must meet the following to qualify for the GS-12 level: **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-11 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of GS-11 level experience may include: providing safety and occupational health services, such as, but not limited to, developing health and occupational safety programs for different science centers and individual laboratories, reviewing laboratory safety procedures and guidelines, researching and making recommendations on personal protective equipment (PPE), conducting job hazard analyses (JHAs), providing hazard recognition training, conducting or arranging for safety training for field operations, tracking and recording the completion of require safety training courses, tracking the purchase, storage, usage, and disposal of hazardous or volatile chemicals and materials, and overseeing compliance for safety procedures for both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. The complexity of this work may require modification and adaptation of standard procedures, methods, and techniques, and the development or adaptation of new methods and techniques to address novel or obscure problems for which guidelines or precedents are not substantially applicable. You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position 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 GEOL AND GEOPHYSICS AND GEOCHEM SC 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 600 Reston, VA 20192 US
• Name: Michael Battle
• Phone: 303-236-9556
• Email: [email protected]