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SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

U.S. Marine Corps

Department of the Navy

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$70,507 - $110,905

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GS-9 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $51,332 - $66,732

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-8. Master's degree or 2 years graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves helping keep military workplaces safe by inspecting operations, giving advice on avoiding hazards, investigating accidents, and training people on safety rules.

It's a role in the U.S. Marine Corps focused on preventing injuries in high-risk environments like bases and training areas.

A good fit would be someone with experience in safety inspections or health compliance who enjoys working with teams to promote safer practices.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 (for GS-09) or GS-09 (for GS-11) in federal or equivalent service, including providing technical safety advice on military activities
  • Ability to conduct periodic and random inspections to ensure compliance with occupational safety and health laws and regulations
  • Experience advising supervisors on measures to control or eliminate hazardous practices, processes, and environmental conditions
  • Skills in planning, organizing, and conducting mishap investigations according to prevention orders and directives
  • Proficiency in providing technical safety training to personnel using various methods and media
  • Ability to establish and guide safety committees to identify and eliminate unsafe conditions
  • Familiarity with creating reports, briefs, and statistical data on safety program performance

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

GS-09: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Providing technical safety advice to commanders, directors, special staff officers, and managers on matters pertaining to specialized military activities and assisting in planning, scheduling, and conducting; a variety of inspections and surveys of a full range of workplaces and operations involving low, medium, and high level risk hazards.

GS-11: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Providing technical safety advice to commanders, directors, special staff officers, and managers on matters pertaining to specialized military activities, conducting periodic and random inspections to determine compliance with applicable occupational safety and health laws and regulations, providing technical safety training to safety representatives and base personnel, to include safety presentations and posting and publishing of safety information to increase awareness, creating status briefs and reports with statistical data and charts to convey program performance and status to leadership.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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 perform periodic and random inspections to determine compliance with applicable occupational safety and health laws and regulations.
  • You will advise supervisors and safety representatives of appropriate safety and occupational health measures to control or eliminate hazardous practices, processes and environmental conditions.
  • You will plan, organize, coordinate, direct, evaluate and conduct mishap investigation in accordance with current mishap prevention orders and directives.
  • You will provide technical safety training to installation and unit safety representatives, inspectors and their employees using a wide variety of methods and media.
  • You will establish, guide and encourage supervisor-employee safety committees to identify and eliminate hazardous equipment operations and unsafe working conditions.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/23/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/24/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12894684-26-KLW