You will serve as a SAFETY & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST in the OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and HEALTH OFFICE, SAFETY DEPARTMENT of NAVAL SUBMARINE SUPPORT FACILITY.

Duties

You will conduct comprehensive safety and occupational health inspections, evaluations, and surveys of all industrial buildings, dry-dock and water front piers. You will recommend proper safety and occupational health measures to eliminate or minimize the possibility of injury to personnel and damage to property. You will monitor all aspects of the Occupational Safety and Health Program to ensure regulatory compliance. You will maintain the Enterprise Safety Management System (ESAMS) to report injuries and illnesses for military and civilian personnel. You will apply regulations, standards and sound safety practices to detect hazardous operations and conditions.

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.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: - Experience with occupational safety and occupational health principles, techniques, practices, and standards. - Experience understanding and interpreting a full range of complex safety and occupational health laws or other regulatory requirements for high hazard heavy industrial operations and processes. - Experience performing safety and health compliance inspections to detect and remedy safety hazards and practices. - Experience with Industrial Hygiene surveys and Navy medicine instructions to ensure employees are in the proper medical surveillance programs. - Experience with the Ergonomic Program and the ability to understand procedures to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control hazards associated with work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders. - Experience with the Mishap Program in order to investigate and report mishaps to determine trend analysis. 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 and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0000/safety-and-occupational-health-management-series-0018/ 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

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:

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.

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

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL SUBMARINE SUPPORT FACILITY 15 Mohegan New London, CT 06320-8100 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]