SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST TITLE 32 INDEFINITE

Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST TITLE 32 INDEFINITE, Position Description Number D293800d and is part of the NH ARNG DCSAV, National Guard. This vacancy is to gather applications that may or may not result in a referral or selection.

Duties

MAJOR DUTIES: Serves as the State, Territory, District of Columbia Safety and Occupational Health Specialist in the maintenance of a comprehensive ground and explosives, safety program for the State. Provides technical expertise for the State ARNG Safety and Occupational Health Management Systems(ASOHMS) within the broad framework of statutory public law, DOD, Army, and National Guard policy ,goals, and objectives. Executes resources for personnel requirements and safety programs necessary to support program goals, objectives, and directives. Implements SOH plans, requirements, methods, and assess risks to improve safety in the workplace and off-duty environments. The SOHM specialist executes a complex SO&EH program for a broad occupational field involving awide variety of changing, high risk operations, environmental conditions, and hazardous materials. Conducts annual reviews of the State SOH Plan to include all applicable Army SOH functional areas. Assists in the development of State safety policy and Standard Operating Procedures for SOH programs. Functional program responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Executes, monitors and evaluates installation SOH functional Safety and Occupational Health Programs for effective implementation, to include; Workplace Operations, Workplace safety, Hazard communication programs, Industrial operations (lockout/tagout, confined space, fall protection),Emergency planning and response, Safety Training and Education of SOH programs consisting of training needs assessments of subordinate organizations mission and operational needs. Community, Off-Duty Recreation, and Seasonal Safety, Public, family, child, and youth safety, Tactical Operations, Tactical safety, Force mobilization, Transportation Safety, Motor vehicle mishap prevention, Maritime activities, Safe cargo operations, Radiation and Laser Safety, Aviation Safety Management, System safety management, Facilities system safety (FASS) program management, Ammunition and Explosives (AE) Safety, Range Safety Operations, Electrical Safety, Fire and Emergency Services(F&ES) Safety, and Contract Safety. Performs inspections. Coordinates, conducts, and participates in safety and occupational health inspections and surveys in a widespread geographic dispersion of diverse operations posing serious hazards of unpredictable consequences to humans and property. Observes employee performance, environmental conditions, facilities, and equipment in a constantly changing operational environment. Identifies complex and unconventional hazards, and unsafe conditions and practices. Weighs, considers, and evaluates findings, assigns risk assessment codes, recommends corrective actions, and conducts follow-up inspections. Coordinates abatement with key staff (Commanders, Directors, supervisors, managers, employees, and labor union). Evaluates effectiveness of countermeasures. Reviews findings of safety surveys conducted by safety committees and determines appropriate action required. Qualifications

Compatible military grade and assignment required prior to the effective date of placement. This is an Title 32 INDEFINITE excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard. Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter PRIOR to applying for this position. Military Grades: Officer 02 to 04; Warrant Officer CW2 to CW4 Compatible Military Assignments: MOS IMMATERIAL GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must have minimum experience in scientific or technical work that provided an understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the safety and occupational health field. Perform 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. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 12 months of experience, education, or training at the lower grade level (GS-11) 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.

How You Will Be Evaluated

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Program Management, Safety Engineering, Safety and Health. Other Information

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution." In addition, all job announcements now include a link to USAJOBS, Equal Employment Opportunity Policy, which affirms that candidates will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or national origin. This agency participates in the Fair Chance Act, Title 5 USC 9202 Limitations on requests for criminal history information. An employee of an agency may not request, in oral or written form (including through the Declaration for Federal Employment (Office of Personnel Management Optional Form 306) or any similar successor form, the USAJOBS internet website, or any other electronic means) that an applicant for an appointment to a position in the civil service disclose criminal history record information regarding the applicant before the appointing authority extends a conditional offer to the applicant. Certain exceptions do apply to this Act. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov)).