Safety and Occupational Health Specialist (Occupational Safety & Health Specialist )

About the role

Serves as a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist (OSHS) for the Technical Operations, Technical Services Organization with overall authority and responsibility for compliance with federal, state and local Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health regulations.

Incumbent reports to the Technical Operations, Technical Services Organization, Environmental Occupational Safety and Health (EOSH) Support Operations Group (EOSG), ESOG Program Support Center.

What you will do

• Analyzes jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the risks to employees.
• Recommends modifications to workplaces to control or eliminate hazards.
• Inspects or surveys workplaces for compliance with established safety and occupational health policies or standards and to identify potential new hazards.
• Reviews project plans and specifications for facilities and equipment to ensure compliance with established EOSH standards.
• Conducts occupational safety evaluation of hazardous conditions and develops recommendations for abatement.
• Develops scopes of work for contract resources required to implement specific aspects of EOSH program operations with overall authority and responsibility for compliance with federal, state and local Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health regulations.
• Performs multiple, varying, and complex assignments under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, or more experienced professional.
• Makes optimal use of resources to complete activities within established schedules.
• May act as a contributing specialist on work activities or as a project manager.
• Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge applicable to his/her discipline to plan and conduct functional activities for projects/programs.
• Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.
• Typical assignments may include: providing guidance to less-experienced professionals; leading small project/program teams; designing and recommending solutions to complex problems; preparing and reviewing management reports and/or contractual documents; and developing and recommending improvements to systems and/or processes to improve operational efficiency.
• Policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments but allow considerable discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es) or develop new approaches.
• Assignments regularly require interpretations of internal and external policies and extrapolations from precedents.
• Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of a manager, project/program manager, or more experienced professional.
• Develops and recommends approaches to address current and anticipated problems and issues.
• Works with management and/or more experienced professionals to solve problems.
• Work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more organizational units, major subdivisions, and/or LOB's/SA's and may affect the objectives of the FAA.
• In some specialties, the work often affects internal and external customers.
• Work is typically reviewed through status reports and at project completion, to ensure policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities.
• Contacts are internal and external.
• May act as a point of contact to provide advice and guidance on the applications of policies and procedures.
• May be called upon to communicate FAA positions on policies and procedures internally and externally.

Requirements

• We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

Education

Education may not be substituted for experience.

How you will be evaluated

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Documents you must provide

• Applicants must apply on-line, through USAJOBS, to receive consideration; Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applications cannot be accepted.
• If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your on-line application, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veteran's documents, you may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS Current or Former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee): You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, or equivalent document that verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2).
• Failure to provide the required documentation by the closing date of this announcement will result in non-consideration for this position.
• If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement.
• You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application.
• If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.
• If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system ***

What to expect next

Once we receive your complete application, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. You will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

For instructions on how to check the status of your application, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide. Important - If you make any changes to your application, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your application and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your application package, and only your previously submitted application will be evaluated.

All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Information section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodation request.

Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Additional information on reasonable accommodations procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.

Additional information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty.

FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. *** Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.

Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA's, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.

Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSA's listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed Security Clearance: Moderate Risk (Level 5), this position requires completion and favorable adjudication of a background investigation prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained.

Subject to a 5-year period reinvestigation Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA