Safety and Occupational Health Specialist

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This position is located on a National Forest and/or Grasslands. The incumbent is the Safety Manager for the assigned duty location. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Debby Gonzales at deborah.gonzales@usda.gov. 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. OR 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: For the GS 09: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS 08 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as one or more of the following: Conducting or organizing safety training in the field or classroom; and/or leading or participating in after action incident reviews or facilitated learning analyses; and/or experiencing, certifying, and training in using mechanized equipment such as chainsaws, ATVs, snow machines, radios, and other equipment and resources used in natural resource management; and/or preparing and implementing project job hazard analyses; and/or participating in the applications of risk management principles in the development or implementation of projects or field operation. OR a Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., in one or more of the following disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology; OR an appropriate combination of specialized experience and education (only graduate education in excess of 18 semester hours may be used to qualify applicants for this grade level in one or more of the following disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology). For the GS 11: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS 09 in the Federal service. 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. OR 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; OR 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. 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.

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