Safety and Occupational Health Specialist

Full Job Description

About the Position: This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

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

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience: 1) Experience performing medical research facility safety inspections to determine compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations.

2) Experience developing accident prevention techniques. 3) Experience in applying safety and occupational health regulations and laws.

4) Experience training personnel on occupational safety related topics.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (DJ-02/GS-09).

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M.

with a major study in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from 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 Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in the vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating. Major Duties:

• Develop safety and occupational health management operations.
• Advises management on the Safety and Occupational Health Program.
• Execute Core Safety and Occupational Health Programs.
• Provide training staff on environmental protection policies and compliance requirements.
• Identify potential environmental risks associated with medical research.
• Conduct compliance audits to assess adherence to environmental standards and identify areas for improvement.
• Monitor waste streams and ensure proper documentation and processes compliance with hazardous waste and regulated medical waste.
• Coordinate health management areas of biological, chemical and industrial safety and quality assurance.
• Conduct accident investigations and risk assessments.
• Abate hazardous conditions as identified in order to minimize risk to personnel and property.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with medical research waste for biological agents, infectious
• Advice on proper collection, storage, labeling, and disposal of hazardous waste and regulated medical waste.