Position Summary:
In this position, you will serve as a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist for Region One in East Windsor, New Jersey.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
- 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.
- Designing or modifying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards.
- Managing safety or occupational health program elements.
- Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses.
- Developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards.
- Serving as a Safety Specialist and reporting to the Mission Support Division.
- Providing screening and and delivery for mail services.
- Analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards.
- Assisting in the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health program to ensure the safety of staff, facilities, and equipment.
- Developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management.
- Work in occupational fields such as industrial hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, and occupational health nurse.
- Training of workers, supervisors, managers, or other safety and occupational health personnel in safety or occupational health subjects.
Required Education & Experience:
- Undergraduate and Graduate 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.
- You qualify for this position at the IC-11 level (starting salary $76,961) if you possess the following: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (IC-09) in the Federal Service. This experience may have been gained in the federal government, a state or local government, a non-profit organization, the private sector, or as a volunteer; however, your resume must clearly describe at least one year of specialized experience.
- 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. Applicants may also qualify for higher grade levels based on their education and/or experience.
- 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree
- 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.