You will serve as a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER in the OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT of NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE NEW LONDON.

Duties

You will analyze data on work operations, mishaps, and safety practices to prepare reports of findings that propose corrective measures for unsafe conditions and hazardous work practices. You will advise higher level management on any Safety and Occupational Health matters to support operations. You will conduct Safety and Occupational Health surveys to evaluate the safety programs for risks or hazards in workplaces, facilities and operations (e.g., industrial, warehouse, maintenance, range, tactical safety). You will develop, prepare and/or personally conduct training modules, courses, presentations or sessions for agency management, supervisory personnel and employees. You will prepare command regulations, instructions, notices, publications and letters, regarding accident injury, radiation safety, personal protective equipment and hazardous exposure control, and hazardous material handling control.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following duties: 1) Evaluate occupational hazards on a wide variety of industrial, manufacturing, printing, fuel, commercial and waterfront sites; 2) Recommend abatement and control measures for workplaces with unsafe working conditions, operations or processes, a high potential for mishaps, and requiring difficult or costly corrective measures; 3) Develop written policies and procedures which impact managerial courses of action; 4) implementation of corrective measures necessitated by the use of hazardous materials used during industrial operations, wastes produced by these operations, and potential routes of environmental contamination; and 5) Devise appropriate solutions to the collection, storage, treatment, handling, disposal, and resource recovery of solid and hazardous waste considering constraints such as regulatory requirements, economic engineering feasibility, and cost effectiveness. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE NEW LONDON Box 44 Groton, CT 06340 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]