THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST (Title 32), Position Description Number D2938000 and is part of the OK JFHQ, Oklahoma Army National Guard.

Duties

This position is located in the Army National Guard (ARNG) Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ)/State, Territory, and District of Columbia Safety and Occupational Health Office. MAJOR DUTIES: Serves as the State, Territory, District of Columbia Safety and Occupational Health Specialist in the maintenance of a comprehensive ground and explosives, safety program for the State. Provides technical expertise for the State ARNG Safety and Occupational Health Management Systems (ASOHMS) within the broad framework of statutory public law, DOD, Army, and National Guard policy, goals, and objectives. Executes resources for personnel requirements and safety programs necessary to support program goals, objectives, and directives. Implements SOH plans, requirements, methods, and assess risks to improve safety in the workplace and off-duty environments. The SOHM specialist executes a complex SO&EH program for a broad occupational field involving a wide variety of changing, high-risk operations, environmental conditions, and hazardous materials. Conducts annual reviews of the State SOH Plan to include all applicable Army SOH functional areas. Assists in the development of State safety policy and Standard Operating Procedures for SOH programs. Functional program responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Executes, monitors and evaluates installation SOH functional Safety and Occupational Health Programs for effective implementation, to include; Workplace Operations, Workplace safety, Hazard communication programs, Industrial operations (lockout/tagout, confined space, fall protection), Emergency planning and response, Safety Training and Education of SOH programs consisting of training needs assessments of subordinate organizations mission and operational needs. Community, Off-Duty Recreation, and Seasonal Safety, Public, family, child, and youth safety, Tactical Operations, Tactical safety, Force mobilization, Transportation Safety, Motor vehicle mishap prevention, Maritime activities, Safe cargo operations, Radiation and Laser Safety, Aviation Safety Management, System safety management, Facilities system safety (FASS) program management, Ammunition and Explosives (AE) Safety, Range Safety Operations, Electrical Safety, Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES) Safety, and Contract Safety. Performs inspections. Coordinates, conducts, and participates in safety and occupational health inspections and surveys in a widespread geographic dispersion of diverse operations posing serious hazards of unpredictable consequences to humans and property. Performs or participates in mishap investigations to determine origins, causes, and contributing elements. Serves on Safety Investigation Boards (SIB), providing expert guidance and advice covering a broad range of Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) elements. Conducts or leads investigation witness Interviews from internal and external agency sources to gather and analyze factual data. Develops new and innovative mishap prevention techniques for modification of accepted specialized safety procedures, incorporating lessons-learned from SIBs to prevent future mishaps. Considers conflicting viewpoints and resource constraints when developing mitigation measures. Makes recommendations and decisions on complex policy issues impacting a wide range of operational and safety activities. Reviews, prepares, and provide leadership briefings for accident investigation mishap reports. Initiates and carries out safety education activities based on organizational/industry trend analysis of hazards and mishaps. Prepares and distributes safety promotional and informative materials to maintain safety awareness. Participates in safety committee meetings to answer questions and provide recommendations. Provides safety consultation to directors, supervisors, managers, workers, and unions on safety requirements and procedures; investigations of mishaps; survey actions, and mishap prevention. Investigates employee complaints of alleged unsafe/unhealthful working conditions; recommends corrective action; assures implementation of corrective actions and prepares responses to employees. Prepares or assists in preparing responses to OSHA citations and inquiries, Inspector General inquiries, and employee safety grievances and complaints. Reviews purchase, service, and construction contracts. Reviews drawings and specifications for new construction and building alterations to determine the degree of compliance with standards and regulatory criteria. Recommends procedures to control or eliminate hazardous operations or conditions. Prepares safety criteria applicable to the contracts. Reviews contract proposals, statements of work, performance work statements, local purchase requests, and work requests for inclusion of safety criteria.

Requirements

• NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position.
• This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard, required prior to the effective date of placement.
• Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform.
• Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment.
• Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership and employment in the National Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement.
• Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a minimum of Secret, or appropriate security clearance of the position.
• May be required to travel by car, in military and/or commercial aircraft, and by other means of transportation as appropriate to perform temporary duty assignments.
• Irregular and/or overtime (compensatory) hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day.
• Required to handle and safeguard sensitive, personal, and/or classified or information covered under privacy act laws in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
• This position requires training and experience to meet Army PCSOH, PCES credentials (or equivalent) within two (2) years of appointment.
• Training and experience provide competency of the given occupational series and functions to ensure compliance with the provisions of standard practices for a certificate program as cited in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• E2659-18 Standard Practice for Certificate Programs and AR 385-10 training requirements.
• Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain (a) The Army Professional Certificate in Safety and Occupational Health (PCSOH), (b) The Army Professional Certificate in Explosives Safety Level 1 (PCESl).
• Responsible for the management of a State Explosives Safety Management Plan IAW AR 385-10, acquisition of (c) The Army Professional Certificate in Explosives Safety Level 2 (PCES2).
• This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968.
• An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this positions.

Qualifications

Military Grades: E5 through O5 GENERAL EXPERIENCE: All GS-0018 series personnel must be certified at the next higher level before being eligible for that level and must have a minimum of one year on-the-job experience in the grade immediately below the next higher level. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Performed industrial construction standards, methods, practices, techniques, materials, equipment, and utility systems sufficient to determine compliance with building safety standards and devise hazard control measures applicable to airport ground facilities and supporting industrial shops. Knowledge of psychological and physiological factors sufficient to develop a ground aviation safety education activity for supervisors and employees, to motivate maintenance personnel to apply safe working practices and to persuade supervisors to accept changes or modifications where required to achieve a safe working environment. Performed safety and occupational health principles, practices, procedures and standards applicable to a full range of complex safety and occupational health management responsibilities at a military aviation installation and requiring the planning, organizing, directing, operating and evaluation of a safety and occupational health program related to ground aviation, industrial and marine operations. Performed aviation maintenance work processes and support equipment, airport ground operations, facilities and runway maintenance techniques, and industrial work processes. Knowledge and skill sufficient to plan, organize, direct, budget, coordinate and evaluate a fully developed safety and occupational health program and advise key managerial and executive personnel on courses of action affecting facility operations, work processes, human machine relationships and environmental conditions which impact on the safety and efficiency of personnel. Expert knowledge of safety and occupational health concepts, principles, laws, regulations, and precedent decisions. Knowledge sufficient to serve as a technical authority and make significant, far-reaching decisions or recommendations in the development, interpretation or application of the principal agency safety and occupational health policies or critical criteria. Capability to recommend substantive program changes or alternative new courses of managerial action requiring the extension and modification of existing safety and occupational health management techniques critical to the resolution of safety and occupational health management problems. This is a Testing Designated Position (TOP). The employee is subject to random drug testing. Preemployment drug testing and participation in random drug testing is a condition of employment. Note: The caveat is that the states, territories, and the district cannot drug test until a drug free workplace policy has been established and approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Education

For entry into this specialty, completion of high school or general educational development equivalency is mandatory. Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified. For example, successful completion of a full four-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study or at least 24 semester hours in any combination of subjects such as safety, fire prevention, industrial hygiene, or other directly related subjects is considered qualifying for the GS-05 level.

Contacts

• Address OK JFHQ 3501 MILITARY CIRCLE OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73111-4305 US
• Name: Virginia Salazar
• Phone: 405-228-5325
• Email: [email protected]