SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER

Full Job Description

You will serve as a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER in the SUBMARINE LEARNING CENTER of TRIDENT TRAINING FAC, BANGOR.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:1) Advised on practices and procedures, public safety law, regulations and precedent decisions applicable to safety as related to maintenance, transportation, storage.

2) Developed, recommended, and executed safety practices that will control or eliminate unsafe conditions critically affecting the command's training mission; 3) Applied industrial work practices and processes used in the maintenance of large buildings in which military unique equipment is used in training; 4) Provided technical safety training on topics such as occupational safety hazardous material handling and storage, 5) Enforced electrical and electronic maintenance and fire prevention sufficient to plan and administer a comprehensive safety inspection program; and 6) Instructed on techniques and procedures applied by industrial hygienists and fire protection engineers sufficient to coordinate the control of hazardous situations arising from industrial operations and High Risk Training evolutions.

NOTE: All experience must be fully demonstrated in your resume to be considered for the position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The work requires incumbent to perform on-site inspections and evaluations of a variety office settings, classroom and high-risk training labs requiring prolonged standing, walking, climbing, crouching, stretching and lifting moderately heavy items.

The work requires regular and recuring physical exertion related to frequent inspections of workplaces, storage areas, roofs, crawl spaces, and pits requiring prolongs standing and considerable walking, climbing, bending, or kneeling, stretching, reaching, and similar movements typically less than four hours per day.

WORK ENVIRONMENT During inspections the specialist may be exposed to moving machine parts and equipment, hazardous materials, high noise levels, dust and fumes.

Protective equipment and clothing may be necessary on occasion. The incumbent is exposed to all degrees of weather and adverse conditions both in a wintertime and summertime environment.

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/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. Major Duties:

• You will serve as the technical advisor to the leadership, High-Risk Training Safety Officer for High-Risk Training activities related to firefighting, damage control, etc.
• You will perform studies, surveys, and job hazard analyses of facility layouts, work processes, man-machine relationships, and environmental conditions to identify existing or potential hazards which could affect the health and safety of personnel.
• You will monitor classrooms and laboratories during high-risk training to ensure safe work methods and procedures are used to eliminate and control unsafe and unhealthful conditions.
• You will conduct mission safety required inspections and support host command in providing workplace inspections under Base Operating Support to ensure compliance with OSHA and Navy Safety programs.
• You will analyze the circumstances of serious accidents and injuries, major material damages, fatalities, and near misses and prepare summary reports showing accident and injury reports and coordinates action.
• You will provide technical safety training to supervisors and staff using a wide variety of materials, publications, exhibits, protective devices, and visual aids.
• You will conduct safety reviews/evaluations of course modifications and/or new high-risk training courses/evolutions to include risk assessment, policy compliance, and observations of proposed training, and inspections of training platforms.
• You will develop and maintain training aids, job specific training, instructions, and advise management of appropriate measures and guidance on the implementation of HR-TSO programs and applicable safety practices.