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Duties

WHAT IS THE FMSS (FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY SERVICES)DIVISION? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas: Facilities Management and Security Services Business Solutions The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. Develops annual goals and objectives, prepares safety procedures and guidelines, develops and delivers program budget, engages customer leadership and stakeholders in program support, and evaluates success of goals and objectives. Monitors delivery of Safety ERC work requests and execution of standard operating procedures, guidance documents and other related materials to ensure consistency in safety program operations throughout all Territory facilities and in conformance with Servicewide occupational safety and health program directives. Represents the Facilities Territory Manager in meetings with other Federal agencies, Federal Safety and Health Council, Treasury Department Safety and Health Program representatives, Headquarters Safety and Security staff. Meets with other professional organizations and NTEU representatives to promote and prevent safety and health incidents and issues. Develops and implements an active workplace, accident, and records analysis aspects of the program. Devises and implements measures to control or eliminate recognized hazards. Analyzes cases of personal injury and occupational disease to determine cause. Identifies injury/illness and mishap trends, risk patterns and safety program deficiencies, and proposes remedial measures with associated costs for REFM and ODs. Conducts similar offsite visits as required. Reviews safety and health considerations in new or renewed leases and interprets Solicitation For Offers (SFO) language regarding safety and health provisions and provides recommendations to address these issues. Develops a semi-annual safety inspection process through a cadre of volunteer safety inspectors throughout an assigned territory. Tracks and maintains the cadre of inspectors. Assures identified safety problems have been assigned abatement responsibility, and tracks remediation results to completion, in order to reduce or eliminate safety and health hazards within the designated facilities. Analyzes hazard identification to look for trends and develops prevention tactics and remediation based on such analysis. Coordinates requests for the services of Headquarters Safety Staff members and/or consultants in providing additional assistance in addressing safety and health issues.

Requirements

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-12 LEVEL: You must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Managing safety or occupational health program elements. Developing and 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. In addition your specialized experience must demonstrate knowledge and application of analytical techniques such as root cause and job hazard assessment sufficient to perform investigations of mishaps and site assessments and identification of injury risk remediation plans; Experience using knowledge of the methods, principles and techniques of ergonomics to be able to minimize stressful conditions affecting employees in the work environment which may cause mishaps; Skill and accomplishment in performing statistical analysis of accident and injury/illness data, preparation of charts and tables, analysis of trends, interpretation of data, and quantification and qualification of results in relationship to associated costs. Your experience must also demonstrate human motivational techniques sufficient to apply the principles to a diverse workforce base and environment to achieve safe working conditions. AND MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks. AND TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens". For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series.

A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.

Contacts

• Address FMSS 1111 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20224 US
• Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
• Phone: 866-743-5748