Safety & Occupational Health Manager
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Albuquerque, NM · 4 wk ago
Healthcare$126k/yrFull-time
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for section headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use appropriate ones based on content.
We have summary/organizational location: could be "About the role". Duties: Responsibilities. Requirements: Requirements (citizenship, etc). Qualifications: Qualifications. Skills maybe not explicit; we could omit Skills if no specific list. Pay: include salary.
We must preserve all substantive info, not invent. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Also remove duplicated lines, navigation, cookie, legal, scam-warning, application instructions. Also remove "Please see announcement on USAJOBS for available locations." That's location list; we need to keep location info? It says "Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Human Resources Management, Occupational Safety and Health, located in two of the following locations: [list]". That's substantive; we should keep it under About the role maybe.
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Pay: include salary range.
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About the role
This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Human Resources Management, Occupational Safety and Health, located in two of the following locations: Seattle, WA; Albany, NY; Detroit, MI; Washington, DC; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Buffalo, NY; New York, NY; Boston, MA; Portland, ME; Denver, CO; Albuquerque, NM; Reno, NV; Grand Forks, ND; Great Falls, MT; Marfa, TX.
Responsibilities
- Serving as a Branch Chief who leads, supervises, and manages a work group of safety professionals, responsible for effectively and efficiently leading the safety operations of a defined geographical or operational area throughout the United States and its territories.
- Serving as primary conduit for communication between OSH leadership and the work group, communicating regularly with CBP leadership at the Field Office Director, Sector Chief, AMO Director, Laboratory Director, and headquarters staff levels communicating safety messaging.
- Ensuring CBP safety goals and objectives are met by holding regular work group meetings, meeting deadlines, preparing work documents, and responding to internal and external communications; verbally, in writing, or through other electronic means.
- Supporting ORM and SMS in the field by facilitating, through work group and OSH staff, opportunities to improve activities in the operational environment to reduce injury rates, lower mishap experiences, reduce CBP costs.
- Providing a full range of supervisory functions in partnership with OSH leadership, such as conducting work performance reviews and provides feedback to employees, coaching, mentoring, and developing the employees in the work group to perform at their optimal level, provides corrective counseling and delivers discipline when needed, and setting priorities and schedules for completion and assigns work to direct reports.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service.
- Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years.
- All pre-employment processes will be conducted in English.
- May be required to pass a background investigation.
- CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures.
- As an employee of CBP, you will be joining a workforce that is dedicated to accomplishing our mission while maintaining the trust of our Nation by strictly adhering to all government ethics standards.
- Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes.
- Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties.
- DHS uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States.
- Bargaining Unit: This position is not covered under the bargaining unit.
Qualifications
- Individual Occupational Requirement: Undergraduate or graduate education in the Major study of 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.
- OR Experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Examples include managing safety or occupational health program elements, developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy, applying safety and occupational health laws, regulations, principles, theories, practices, and procedures, developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures, 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 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.
- Experience: You qualify for the GS-14 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: managing safety or occupational health program elements, by developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management to eliminate or control potential hazards, while developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses; 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; analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards; designing, modifying, inspecting or surveying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards and ensure 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.
- NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible.
- 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.
- You must: Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process; and Meet all applicable Time in Grade requirements (current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the federal service) by 10/02/2026.
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
- Background Investigation: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a federal law enforcement agency that requires all applicants to undergo a thorough background investigation prior to employment in order to promote the agency's core values of vigilance, service to country, and integrity. During the screening and/or background investigation process, you will be asked questions regarding any felony criminal convictions or current felony charges, the use of illegal drugs (e.g., marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, methamphetamines, ecstasy), and the use of non-prescribed controlled substances including any experimentation, possession, sale, receipt, manufacture, cultivation, production, transfer, shipping, trafficking, or distribution of controlled substances.
- Residency: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by CBP. Individuals are required to have physically resided in the United States or its protectorates (as declared under international law) for at least three of the last five years. If you do not meet the residency requirement and you have been physically located in a foreign location for more than two of the last five years, you may request an exception to determine if you are eligible for a residency waiver by meeting one or more of the following conditions: Working for the U.S. Government as a federal civilian or as a member of the military; A dependent who was authorized to accompany a federal civilian or member of the military who was working for the U.S. government; Participation in a study abroad program sponsored by a U.S. affiliated college or university; Working as a contractor, intern, consultant or volunteer supporting the U.S. government.
- Probationary Period: All employees new to the federal government must serve a one year probationary period during the first year of his/her initial permanent federal appointment to determine fitness for continued employment. Current and former federal employees may be required to serve or complete a probationary period.
- Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not CTAP/ICTAP eligible. View information about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the Required Documents section of this announcement.
Pay
This position starts at a salary of $125,776.00 (GS-14, Step 1) to $163,514.00 (GS-14, Step 10). GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area. If you do not see your geographic area listed, select the "
About the role
This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Human Resources Management, Occupational Safety and Health, located in two of the following locations: Seattle, WA; Albany, NY; Detroit, MI; Washington, DC; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Buffalo, NY; New York, NY; Boston, MA; Portland, ME; Denver, CO; Albuquerque, NM; Reno, NV; Grand Forks, ND; Great Falls, MT; Marfa, TX.
Responsibilities
- Serving as a Branch Chief who leads, supervises, and manages a work group of safety professionals, responsible for effectively and efficiently leading the safety operations of a defined geographical or operational area throughout the United States and its territories.
- Serving as primary conduit for communication between OSH leadership and the work group, communicating regularly with CBP leadership at the Field Office Director, Sector Chief, AMO Director, Laboratory Director, and headquarters staff levels communicating safety messaging.
- Ensuring CBP safety goals and objectives are met by holding regular work group meetings, meeting deadlines, preparing work documents, and responding to internal and external communications; verbally, in writing, or through other electronic means.
- Supporting ORM and SMS in the field by facilitating, through work group and OSH staff, opportunities to improve activities in the operational environment to reduce injury rates, lower mishap experiences, reduce CBP costs.
- Providing a full range of supervisory functions in partnership with OSH leadership, such as conducting work performance reviews and provides feedback to employees, coaching, mentoring, and developing the employees in the work group to perform at their optimal level, provides corrective counseling and delivers discipline when needed, and setting priorities and schedules for completion and assigns work to direct reports.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service.
- Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years.
- All pre-employment processes will be conducted in English.
- May be required to pass a background investigation.
- CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures.
- As an employee of CBP, you will be joining a workforce that is dedicated to accomplishing our mission while maintaining the trust of our Nation by strictly adhering to all government ethics standards.
- Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes.
- Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties.
- DHS uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States.
- Bargaining Unit: This position is not covered under the bargaining unit.
Qualifications
- Individual Occupational Requirement: Undergraduate or graduate education in the Major study of 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.
- OR Experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Examples include managing safety or occupational health program elements, developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy, applying safety and occupational health laws, regulations, principles, theories, practices, and procedures, developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures, 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 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.
- Experience: You qualify for the GS-14 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: managing safety or occupational health program elements, by developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management to eliminate or control potential hazards, while developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses; 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; analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards; designing, modifying, inspecting or surveying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards and ensure 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.
- NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible.
- 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.
- You must: Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process; and Meet all applicable Time in Grade requirements (current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the federal service) by 10/02/2026.
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
- Background Investigation: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a federal law enforcement agency that requires all applicants to undergo a thorough background investigation prior to employment in order to promote the agency's core values of vigilance, service to country, and integrity. During the screening and/or background investigation process, you will be asked questions regarding any felony criminal convictions or current felony charges, the use of illegal drugs (e.g., marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, methamphetamines, ecstasy), and the use of non-prescribed controlled substances including any experimentation, possession, sale, receipt, manufacture, cultivation, production, transfer, shipping, trafficking, or distribution of controlled substances.
- Residency: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by CBP. Individuals are required to have physically resided in the United States or its protectorates (as declared under international law) for at least three of the last five years. If you do not meet the residency requirement and you have been physically located in a foreign location for more than two of the last five years, you may request an exception to determine if you are eligible for a residency waiver by meeting one or more of the following conditions: Working for the U.S. Government as a federal civilian or as a member of the military; A dependent who was authorized to accompany a federal civilian or member of the military who was working for the U.S. government; Participation in a study abroad program sponsored by a U.S. affiliated college or university; Working as a contractor, intern, consultant or volunteer supporting the U.S. government.
- Probationary Period: All employees new to the federal government must serve a one year probationary period during the first year of his/her initial permanent federal appointment to determine fitness for continued employment. Current and former federal employees may be required to serve or complete a probationary period.
- Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not CTAP/ICTAP eligible. View information about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the Required Documents section of this announcement.
Pay
This position starts at a salary of $125,776.00 (GS-14, Step 1) to $163,514.00 (GS-14, Step 10). GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area. If you do not see your geographic area listed, select the "