Safety and Occupational Health Manager

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What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position? Salary: $121,785 (Step 01) to $158,322 (Step 10); NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.

Definitions: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Specialized experience is experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position to be filled.

Examples of qualifying specialized experience may include: Managing safety or occupational health program elements.

Developing or 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.

Applicants must meet the following to qualify for the GS-13 level: One year of appropriate specialized experience as defined above under "Definitions".

To be creditable, this specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service.

Examples of GS-12 level experience may include: 1) representing safety and health interests serving on Bureau teams and committees; 2) conducting field level compliance inspections and regional program evaluations to identify and evaluating risk potential involving a wide variety of work environments, occupations and operations; 3) managing national level accident, audit or hazard analysis databases/systems and directed investigation of accidents, analyzing precipitating factors and causal data using Tableau software, and developing methods for prevention or abatement; 4) recommending application of safety and health or industrial hygiene principles and training on safety and health topics at all levels of the organization; 5) managing safety and health programs specific to lab safety, and occupant emergency plans, industrial hygiene topics 6) Coordinating work or collaborating with staff in the specialized occupational fields i.e., aviation, diving firearms, large vessels, radiation, watercraft, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, safety engineering, and fire prevention.

For examples 1-6, the work is performed independently to set section priorities, objectives, and strategies in alignment with Bureau goals.

As the technical expert, the incumbent determines the approach and methods to be used and directs subordinate staff in effectively providing specialized safety program (diving, large vessels, and watercraft) support and solutions to highly complex issues and concerns to Associate and Regional Directors, Regional Safety Managers, and local management, supervisors and employees.

You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement. Major Duties:

As a Safety and Occupational Health Manager within the Office of Management Services, some of your specific duties will include: Serving as a Section Chief directing Safety and Occupation Health operations with responsibility for advising and recommending policies, plans, standards, and procedures for accident and occupational illness prevention and public safety.

Preparing reports of bureau-wide accident trend analysis to address negative trends and program gaps.

Developing USGS management recommendations aimed toward program improvement, cost reductions, safer utilization of manpower, equipment, and facilities to include developing initiatives based on report's findings.

Preparing, reviewing, and ensuring national policies, guidance, and procedures related to safety and health that includes following correspondence review processes.

Assisting the Chief in Administration of the USGS Occupational and Safety Health Awards Program, annual OSHA reports, informational correspondence, and safety awareness materials.

Consulting and coordinating with other internal and external Occupational and Safety Health experts to solve complex Bureau Occupational and Safety Health issues and problems.

Representing the USGS in meetings and conferences with public and private agencies concerning Occupational and Safety Health matters serving as the Occupational Safety and Health Management Branch representative.

Operate a government owned or leased vehicle as an incidental driver. Physical Demands The work is primarily sedentary.

The incumbent also performs site visits, evaluations, and inspections of facilities, construction projects, field sites and high hazard operations requiring physical exertion, occasional climbing and extended periods of walking or standing on uneven or unstable surfaces.

Work Environment Work is primarily performed in an office setting.

Regular and recurring onsite evaluation and inspection work may expose the incumbent to hazardous environmental conditions and hazardous materials encountered at field locations.

Protective equipment is sometimes required.

Conditions of Employment for this Position: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary or trial period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.

The selectee for this position will be required to serve a supervisory probationary period, unless they have already completed one.

This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service.

In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: - your performance and conduct; - the needs and interests of the agency; - whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and - whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.

In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.

Upon completion of your probationary your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.