Safety and Occupational Health Manager

Full Job Description

This position is located with Bonneville Power Administration, in the Safety West (NFW) organizations in the Safety Office (NF), Chief Administrative Office (N).

A successful candidate in the Safety and Occupational Health Manager position will serve as a senior Safety Manager providing consultative services and technical assistance to District Managers and Project management teams engaged in construction and field safety activities.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS A qualified candidate's resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level, GS-12, in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: 1) identifying and evaluating occupational hazards in utility worksites, including recommending control measures for environments characterized by unsafe work processes, high potential for mishaps, and difficult abatements; and 2) advising senior management of appropriate measures and alternative courses of action to achieve mission goals with a minimum risk of injury to personnel and damage to property; and 3) developing safety and occupational health criteria, standards, and techniques used in the prevention and control of accidents associated with a system.

"Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience.

Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations.

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills; and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Time-in-Grade: Current Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement to receive consideration.

CTAP candidates: To be considered "well qualified" you must meet all of the requirements as described in this section.

To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet the eligibility criteria; and 2) be rated "well-qualified", which is defined as having a score of 85 or better.

You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Major Duties:

As a Safety and Occupational Health Manager, you will: Write and submit inspection reports associated with Quality Assurance assessments of construction and field safety activities.

Plan, schedule, and conduct inspections at construction and field worksites where there is a strong probability of encountering hazardous work processes and materials and unsafe environmental conditions, involving substantial numbers of employees.

Recommend and implement new techniques and methods to resolve critical problems resulting from unique, changing work processes, numerous hazardous human-machine relationships, and multiple work functions consistent with a geographically disbursed electrical utility operation.

Analyze accident and illness data, applicable legislation, and job hazards to design appropriate education activities. Work with the training specialist to provide appropriate courses and seminars.

Provide agency-wide strategy and oversite of technical safety requirements for a programmatic activity, addressing risk that could result in death, and/or high catastrophic error rates at a national level.

Analyze mishap statistics and investigative reports to compare incident rates among command units.

Must achieve and maintain their permitted access to BPA energized facilities and possess at least a Substation Entry Permit.