Assistant Area Director.

About the role

The Safety and Occupational Health Specialist serves as Supervisor to a multi-disciplinary group of Industrial Hygienists, Safety and Occupational Health Specialists, and Safety Engineers. They identify, distribute, and balance workload and tasks, provide and sign written performance appraisals based on daily observation of work, approve the use of annual, sick, and/or credit leave of short duration, conduct on-the-job assessments of workload progress, productivity, and quality to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, review case files to ensure proper application of standards and proposed penalties as well as reasonable abatement dates and documentation that is legally sufficient and consistent with OSHA policies and directives, oversee and monitor the Regional Federal Enforcement Program by providing expert guidance and assistance to staff members and area directors concerning Regional and National Office policies, the Field Operations Manual, and new directives and instructions dealing with enforcement of OSHA programs, discuss apparent problem areas and provide guidance and interpretation of enforcement standards, regulatory and procedural requirements, plan and evaluate compliance methodology to develop internal compliance procedures and determine priorities, provide liaison with employer and employee organizations as well as with the Regional Solicitor's Office and with publicly organized safety and health groups.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Subject to pre-employment and random drug tests.
• Requires a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

• Education: Major study -- 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.
• Experience: 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 hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, and occupational health nurse.
• Certification: Certification as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or Certified Health Physicist (CHP), or similar certification that included successful completion of a written examination meets the requirements for GS-5.

Skills

• Conducting complex occupational safety and health inspections.
• Providing technical advice, guidance or training to employers, employees, labor representatives or other interested parties regarding safe working conditions, the improvement of operations or facilities, or voluntary compliance with OSHA's enforcement regulations.
• Leading teams of occupational safety and health professionals in the investigation and documentation of unsafe working conditions.
• Identifying and documenting unsafe or unhealthful working conditions, securing hazard abatement, and facilitating settlement conferences.