Job opening: SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST
Salary: $68 297 - 107 421 per year
Published at: Nov 21 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
You will perform periodic and random inspections to determine compliance with applicable occupational safety and health laws and regulations.
You will advise supervisors and safety representatives of appropriate safety and occupational health measures to control or eliminate hazardous practices, processes and environmental conditions.
You will plan, organize, coordinate, direct, evaluate and conduct mishap investigation in accordance with current mishap prevention orders and directives.
You will provide technical safety training to installation and unit safety representatives, inspectors and their employees using a wide variety of methods and media.
You will establish, guide and encourage supervisor-employee safety committees to identify and eliminate hazardous equipment operations and unsafe working 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
- 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.
- This position is subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required.
- You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination
- You will be required to possess and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
- You must be medically cleared to wear a respirator, fit tested and have no impairment that would prevent wearing of a respirator.
Qualifications
GS-11: 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: ability to apply 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. - Experience in administering and executing program requirements for one of more of the following special programs; Hearing Conservation, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Lead and Asbestos, Confined Spaces, Respiratory Protection, Fall Protection, Mishaps and Investigations, Radiation, Laser, and Ergonomics. - The ability to analyze and evaluate the safety programs of tenant organizations aboard the base and advise and provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness of their programs. - The ability to perform periodic and random inspections to determine compliance with applicable occupational safety and health laws and regulations, to include identify, document, and track program deficiencies until abated. -The ability to provide technical safety training to safety representatives and base personnel, to include promote safety via presentations (e.g., safety stands downs, conferences, meetings, etc.) and posting and publishing of safety information to increase awareness. The ability to create status briefs and reports with statistical data and charts to convey program performance and status to leadership.
GS-09: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: technical safety advice to commanders, directors, special staff officers, and managers on matters pertaining to specialized military activities and assisting in planning, scheduling, and conducting; a variety of inspections and surveys of a full range of workplaces and operations involving low, medium, and high level risk hazards.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:???????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
GS-11: In lieu of specialized experience listed in the Qualifications section, applicants may qualify based on meeting at least one of these listed educational accomplishments OR an equivalent combination of experience and education:
Successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene) or a degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study form 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
Have successfully completed three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene) or a degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study form 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
Successfully completed an LL.M. degree that is related to the position being filled. https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/-
OR
A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience. My percentage of the required education plus my percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent.
GS-09: Specialized experience may be substituted with a master's or equivalent graduate degree in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene) or a degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study form 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
Two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene) or a degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study form 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
An LL.B. or J.D. that is related to the position being filled
Contacts
- Address MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON
USMC
Camp Pendleton, CA 92055
US
- Name: Samuel Johnson
- Phone: (760) 763-7327
- Email: [email protected]
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