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SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER

Army National Guard Units

Department of the Army

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$89,508 - $116,362

per year

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SES Pay Grade

Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900

Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading safety programs for the South Carolina Army National Guard, focusing on identifying hazards in aviation, industrial, and ground operations, and ensuring everyone follows safe practices to prevent injuries and accidents.

A good fit would be someone with experience in workplace safety, especially in military or technical settings, who enjoys educating teams and solving practical problems to keep operations running smoothly.

Key Requirements

  • 1 year of specialized experience in safety and occupational health, equivalent to the next lower grade level
  • Knowledge of industrial construction standards, methods, practices, and equipment for compliance with safety regulations
  • Understanding of psychological and physiological factors to develop safety education programs for aviation and maintenance personnel
  • Ability to plan, organize, direct, and evaluate comprehensive safety programs for military aviation installations, including ground, industrial, and marine operations
  • Familiarity with aviation maintenance processes, support equipment, airport ground operations, and runway maintenance techniques
  • Obtain and maintain Secret security clearance
  • Obtain Army Professional Certificates in Safety and Occupational Health (PCSOH) and Explosives Safety (PCES1/PCES2) within 2 years of appointment

Full Job Description

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted position for a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER, Position Description Number PDD2937000 , and is part of the SC AASF, South Carolina Army National Guard.

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION OPEN TO THE FOLLOWING AREA OF CONSIDERATION (AOC): Area of Consideration: This position is open to Area 1 Only.

Area 1: Current employees of the South Carolina Army National Guard (Tenure 1 and 2) Area 2: Current members of the South Carolina Army National Guard Area 3: Any individual eligible for membership in the South Carolina Army National Guard GENERAL EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Performed, as a team member, specified survey work to identify and evaluate hazardous and nonhazardous work and conditions.

Applied conventional survey techniques to complete relatively uncomplicated evaluations.

Made recommendations concerning corrective procedures where the potential for injury or property damage exists or current procedures do not achieve the desired results or modify/cancel the corrective procedures are no longer appropriate for situations encountered.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: 1-year equivalent to at least next lower grade level experience, education, or training performing industrial construction standards, methods, practices, techniques, materials, equipment, and utility systems sufficient to determine compliance with building safety standards and devise hazard control measures applicable to airport ground facilities and supporting industrial shops.

Knowledge of psychological and physiological factors sufficient to develop a ground aviation safety education activity for supervisors and employees, to motivate maintenance personnel to apply safe working practices and to persuade supervisors to accept changes or modifications where required to achieve a safe working environment.

Performed safety and occupational health principles, practices, procedures and standards applicable to a full range of complex safety and occupational health management responsibilities at a military aviation installation and requiring the planning, organizing, directing, operating and evaluation of a safety and occupational health program related to ground aviation, industrial and marine operations.

Performed aviation maintenance work processes and support equipment, airport ground operations, facilities and runway maintenance techniques, and industrial work processes.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT & NOTES: 1. Must be able to obtain and maintain a minimum of Secret, or appropriate security clearance of the position. 2.

May be required to travel by car, in military and/or commercial aircraft, and by other means of transportation as appropriate to perform temporary duty assignments 3.

Irregular and/or overtime (compensatory) hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day. 4.

Required to handle and safeguard sensitive, personal, and/or classified or information covered under privacy act laws in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise. 5.

This position requires training and experience to meet Army PCSOH, PCES credentials (or equivalent) within two (2) years of appointment.

Training and experience provide competency of the given occupational series and functions to ensure compliance with the provisions of standard practices for a certificate program as cited in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E2659-18 Standard Practice For Certificate Programs and AR 385-10 training requirements.

Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain (a) The Army Professional Certificate in Safety and Occupational Health (PCSOH), (b) The Army Professional Certificate in Explosives Safety Level 1 (PCES1), and if responsible for the management of a State Explosives Safety Management Plan IAW AR 385-10, acquisition of (c) The Army Professional Certificate in Explosives Safety Level 2 (PCES2).

6. This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968.

An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this positions. 7. This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP).

The employee is subject to random drug testing. Pre-employment drug testing and participation in random drug testing is a condition of employment.

Note: The caveat is that the states, territories, and the district cannot drug test until a drug free workplace policy has been established and approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

8. The duties and responsibilities of your job may significantly impact the environment.

You are responsible to maintain awareness of your environmental responsibilities as dictated by legal and regulatory requirements, your organization, and its changing mission.

Other Requirements: For positions requiring the operation of motor vehicles, candidates must have a valid state driver's license for the state in which they live or are principally employed.

For positions requiring a security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) the applicant must possess or be able to obtain a clearance within one year of appointment. Major Duties:

This position is located in the Army National Guard (ARNG) Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ)/State, Territory, and District of Columbia Safety and Occupational Health Office.

The primary purpose is to perform work in a broad range of air and ground safety; as well as, explosive and range safety, weapons safety program elements, such as inspections, surveys, evaluations, mishap investigations and safety training.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/7/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/8/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: SC-12931071-26-145-AR