SAFETY & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serves as the Safety and Occupational Health Manager for 837th Battalion.

As Manager you will plans, organizes, administers and evaluates elements of the safety and occupational health program.

The program encompasses subordinate terminals/out-ports involving diverse facilities, transportation, and industrial responsibilities.

Please review South Korea's prescription medication & Drug regulations here: https://kr.usembassy.gov/services-controlled-substance/.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying to OCONUS Positions Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Excepted Service Overseas Family Member Appointment Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 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. This position has a basic requirement that you must meet in addition to the specialized experience required below.

Basic Requirement: Education: An undergraduate or graduate degree in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 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- Experience: In or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duets of the position.

Examples of qualifying experience include: Managing safety or occupational health program elements, developing and 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 hygiene, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, and occupational health nurse.

In addition to the Basic Requirement, you must also meet the one year of Specialized Experience.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of specialized experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.

Specialized experience is defined as: experience in implementing safety and occupational health standards and regulations to the battalion ; conducting inspections of the safety program; and developing site safety plans/waivers for hazardous materials project.

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

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

If you are currently stationed in the overseas area, all of your overseas time will be credited toward your current overseas tour end date.

Your overseas time served will not reset upon accepting this assignment.

If you have returned from OCONUS within the past 2 years or less, your time previously served in the OCONUS area will be credited to your 5 year overseas rotation upon accepting this assignment.

MILITARY SEPARTEES (NON-RETIREE): Military members may be appointed while on terminal leave, before the effective date of their military separation.

Applications will only be accepted from members of the Armed Forces that indicate they are immediately appointable within 120 days.

MILITARY RETIREES: A retired member of the Armed Forces may not be appointed to a civilian position in DOD (including a non-appropriated fund position) within 180 days after retirement [** unless the following conditions have been met: the Secretary concerned authorizes the appointment; or the position is authorized special pay under 5 U.S.C.

5305; or a state of national emergency exists.] Major Duties:

• Develops, interprets, and/or revises and implements safety and occupational health standards, policies and regulations applicable to the Brigade/Battalion.
• Reviews and analyzes the Safety and Occupational Health Program which includes accident prevention and control through application of mandatory and consensus standards.
• Conducts field surveys and inspections of the safety program at subordinate units to ensure compliance with program policies, objectives, standards and procedures.
• Evaluates reports of hazardous conditions and develops written courses of action with specific recommendations to mitigate risk and to prevent injury or property damage.
• Confers and coordinates with the Directors and Division Chiefs at Area Commands and Safety Officers of Subordinate Commands as needed to achieve safety and occupational health goals and objectives.
• Prepares written correspondence including memos, graphs, charts, forms, and others with a high degree of accuracy. Prepares and delivers oral presentations.