Safety and Occupational Health Specialist

To qualify for a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• Specialized
  
  Experience:
  
  One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.
  
  Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade, time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.
• Creditable specialized experience includes:
• Ability to apply 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.
• Ability to apply Industrial Hygiene & Safety Principles:
  Serving as a technical authority on complex safety and occupational health issues by applying practical knowledge of industrial hygiene, safety engineering principles, and environmental regulations (e.g., OSHA, NIOSH, ACGIH) to anticipate, identify, evaluate, and control workplace hazards.
• Ability to conduct Hazard & Exposure Assessments:
  Performing exposure assessments, and environmental monitoring for physical, chemical, and biological stressors. This includes calibrating, operating, and maintaining industrial hygiene equipment (such as air sampling pumps, noise dosimeters, and direct-reading instruments).
• Ability to develop technical recommendations:
  Recommending and validating effective engineering controls, administrative controls, and appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Ability to manage occupational health programs:
  Implementing and evaluating key occupational health programs such as Hearing Conservation, Respiratory Protection, Hazard Communication, or a Chemical Hygiene Program and evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards.
• Providing advanced technical training:
  Developing and delivering technical training to supervisors and employees on complex occupational health topics, including interpreting safety data.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps), 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.

Work requires some physical exertion, such as long periods of standing; walking over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities. May require lifting of moderately heavy items, such as record boxes and supplies. This requires above average agility and physical dexterity to manipulate, access, or view desired components or locations.

Work involves frequent inspections and on-site visits of depot and industrial facilities at both CONUS and OCONUS locations, which involves regular and recurrent exposure to hazards and discomforts such as moving machine parts, irritant chemicals, acid fumes, physical stresses, high noise levels, adverse weather conditions, varying terrain, and high temperatures. Protective equipment and clothing are needed as required by the assignment.