Safety & Occupational Health Manager

About the role

The primary purpose of the position is to serve as the Chief of Safety and Emergency Management Service, responsible for directing, planning, developing, and implementing oversight of the AVAHCS Safety and Emergency Management Program, Fire Protection, Green Environmental Management Systems (GEMS), Industrial Hygiene, Radiation Safety Programs, and Biomedical Equipment Programs.

Qualifications

• Education: Undergraduate and graduate education with major study in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene) or a degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from among the following disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, industrial psychology. (Transcript required).
• OR Experience: Specialized experience (for positions above GS‑5) in safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties. Examples include managing safety program elements, developing and recommending safety policy, applying safety laws and regulations, developing safety standards, implementing programs to reduce accidents, analyzing jobs for hazards, designing workplaces to control hazards, inspecting for compliance, training personnel, and work in fields such as industrial hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, occupational health nurse.
• OR Certificates: Certification as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Health Physicist (CHP), or similar certification that includes successful completion of a written examination meets the requirements for GS‑5. (Certification required).
• In addition to the above Individual Occupational Requirement, applicants must also meet the experience and/or directly related education relevant to this position.
• Time‑In‑Grade Requirement: Current Federal employees who have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must have served 52 weeks at the GS‑11 level for a GS‑12 position (SF‑50 documentation required). Former Federal employees applying for reinstatement or VEOA appointment are also subject to this requirement.
• Specialized Experience (equivalent to GS‑11): One year of specialized experience including managing safety or occupational health program elements, developing and recommending safety policy, applying safety laws and regulations, developing safety standards, implementing programs to reduce accidents, analyzing jobs for hazards, and inspecting for compliance.

Responsibilities

• Plans, designs, constructs, modifies, improves, or maintains facilities either in‑house or by contractual effort.
• Regulates and enforces safety policies, programs, and activities.
• Establishes standards, promotes improvements, evaluates compliance, and directs action to secure satisfactory results.
• Acts as technical expert on safety issues in a health‑care facility with intimate knowledge of Joint Commission, OSHA, NFPA, NIOSH, ADA, and CARF standards.
• Resolves difficult and complex technical, project‑management, and organizational problems using innovative and original approaches.
• Issues reports of analyses and tracks status of corrective and preventive actions.
• Plans, organizes, overse