Summary

This position is located on a National Forest.

The incumbent will serve as a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist.

For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Debby Gonzales at [redacted].

Duties

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• Responsibilities are listed at the highest grade.
• Manages, plans, budgets, and directs the Forest's safety and occupational health program, ensuring OSHA compliance and effective program delivery.
• Develops annual action plans, goals, policies, procedures, safety guidelines, and training programs.
• Conducts safety inspections, identify hazards, and implements corrective or preventative measures across facilities, operations, and field activities.
• Reviews engineering plans for new construction or modifications and recommends changes to ensure safety standards and risk reduction.
• Investigates mishaps, prepares detailed reports, analyze trends in SHIPS, and recommend actions to prevent recurrence.
• Provides technical safety guidance and promotes safety awareness for employees, volunteers, and public visitors through training and education campaigns.

Requirements

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Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

Basic Requirement: GS-0018

Major related to 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 semester 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.

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Experience in safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below.

Specialized Experience Requirement:

GS-11: Specialized experience is defined as one or more of the following: Participating or assisting in the development and implementation of a unit safety and risk management program; and/or coordinating, conducting; and/or organizing training in the field or classroom related to safety and risk management; and/or organizing, leading and/or participating in accident investigations, after action reviews or facilitating learning analyses; and/or reviewing, preparing and implementing project job hazard analyses.

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a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related;

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an appropriate combination of specialized experience and graduate level education (beyond what is required for a master's degree, i.e., more than 36 semester hours leading to a Ph.D.

GS-12:

Specialized experience is defined as one or more of the following: Provided technical guidance in the area of safety and occupational health; and/or evaluating safety operational procedures and programs and recommended changes;

and/or analyzing unsafe conditions and operations and provided recommendations for abatements; and/or

developing, directing, or conducting safety training programs.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

See above for education requirements.

Additional information

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) or Reemployment Priority List (RPL): To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP candidates must be rated and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluation of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evaluated section. When assessed through a score-based category rating method, CTAP applicants must receive a rating of at least 85 out of a possible 100.

Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) provides current or former temporary and term employees the opportunity to compete for permanent competitive service positions. Individuals must have more than 24 months of service without a break between appointments of two or more years and the last temporary or term appointment must have been with the Forest Service. Service must be in the competitive service and have been at a successful level of performance or better. Part-time and intermittent service will be credited only for time actually worked. Non-pay status such as leave without pay is credited for up to six months in a calendar year; anything beyond six months is not credited. Applicants are responsible for providing sufficient information/documentation to determine if the 24 month criteria is met.

If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is not guaranteed.

This position is not eligible for telework.

A recruitment or relocation incentive, or reimbursement of relocation expenses may be authorized at the discretion of management in accordance with agency policy.

This is a bargaining unit position and is represented by either NFFE.

Forest Service daycare facilities are not available.

Government Housing is not available.

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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.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.