This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), with 1 vacancy in San Diego, CA. This position is also announced under vacancy number NMFS-26-13057955-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.
As a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Plan, coordinate, and execute the organization's facilities, safety, and occupational health program, to analyze and advise on changes in policies and resources that affect program objectives. Review standards and codes, publications on work processes, and current industrial problems and make recommendations to senior leadership on required changes to standards and policies.
Identify and ensure that environmental and occupational operations (including highly hazardous control activities) are documented, in place, monitored and controlled, such as Material Safety Data Sheet or Safety Data Sheet data. Lead inspections to ensure the effectiveness of occupational safety requirements in the work environment, and to assess the degree of compliance.
Conduct facility safety inspections of reportable and non-reportable mishaps involving personal injury accidents, property damage, and cases of occupational illnesses or findings. Identify unsafe conditions, practices, or hazards. Report findings, assign risk assessment codes, recommend corrective actions, and conduct follow-up inspections.
Collect data and research information for annual updates to the Environmental Health and Safety Action Plan, to ensure environmental compliance and reports are complete. Contribute to and communicate with Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) leadership regarding the Safety Action Plan.
Collaborate with management on program changes or alternative courses of action on policy or procedural changes that may result in the modification of new and existing safety and occupational health management techniques, operations, activities and improvement on environmentally responsible operations.
Advise management on more complex safety risks encountered and in risk assessments, analyze operating practices to minimize safety risk and incidents, and identify risk mitigation strategies. Submit and manage status of work orders on behalf of SWFSC. Facilitate meetings, review responses to data calls for accuracy and completeness, and report on the Facilities Working Group, Safety, Environmental, and Security Committee, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Manager.
Brief new employees on emergency management procedures and develop, implement and conduct formal classroom training on compliance procedures, legal, regulatory, and procedural guidance. NOTE: The duties are at the full performance level of the ZA-3 the ZA-2 is the developmental leading to such performance. This position will be filled under the DOC Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). Under CAPS, positions are classified by career, pay plan, and pay band.
The ZA-2 is equivalent to the GS-07/09. The ZA-3 is equivalent to the GS-11/12. The Full Performance Level (FPL) is the ZA-3.
College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), name of accredited institution, course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume.
You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken. Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work.
An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty. Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.
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This position is with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.
The posted pay range is $57641 – $132923/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-23.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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