SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST (TITLE 32)

Summary

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Position. This is a Permanent GS-0018-12 SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST (TITLE 32), Position Description Number D2938000 and is part of the MO State Aviation Office.

Duties

• Reviews contract proposals, statements of work, performance work statements, local purchase requests, and work requests for inclusion of safety criteria.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Coordinates abatement with key staff (Commanders, Directors, supervisors, managers, employees, and labor union).
• Performs or participates in mishap investigations to determine origins, causes, and contributing elements.
• Serves on Safety Investigation Boards (SIB), providing expert guidance and advice covering a broad range of Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) elements.
• Conducts or leads investigation witness Interviews from internal and external agency sources to gather and analyze factual data.
• Develops new and innovative mishap prevention techniques for modification of accepted specialized safety procedures, incorporating lessons-learned from SIBs to prevent future mishaps.
• Investigates employee complaints of alleged unsafe/unhealthful working conditions; recommends corrective action; assures implementation of corrective actions and prepares responses to employees.
• Initiates and carries out safety education activities based on organizational/industry trend analysis of hazards and mishaps.
• Prepares and conducts briefings, meetings, training classes, and associated functions.
• Develops training plans to ensure worker qualification and competency.
• Reviews purchase, service, and construction contracts.

Qualifications

MILITARY REQUIREMENTS: Selected candidate must currently be assigned to a military unit in the Missouri Army National Guard. Title 32 employees will not be militarily senior to their full-time supervisor (grade inversion). Maximum Military Grade - CPT (O-3) with date of rank after 6 February 2023 GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must possess one year of experience that demonstrates knowledge of work processes, methods, techniques and procedures to detect and correct unsafe conditions in diversified environments, e.g., aircraft maintenance/flight line operations, civil engineering, motor vehicle maintenance, contractor operations, and explosives handling and storage; knowledge of construction standards, methods, practices, techniques, materials, equipment, and utility systems sufficient to evaluate compliance with construction safety standards and devise innovative hazard control measures applicable to new building construction and industrial modifications; and experience in conducting studies and/or inspections of activities to evaluate and determine regulatory compliance. GS-12 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Do you possess at least one year of specialized experience, education or training equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or equivalent that demonstrates sufficient knowledge to perform 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. The specialized experience must also demonstrate 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; performs 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; and performs aviation maintenance work processes and support equipment, airport ground operations, facilities and runway maintenance techniques, and industrial work processes.

Education

This job does not have a qualification requirement that allows substitution of education for specialized experience. 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. Other Information

Selective Service 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 (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx).