This vacancy is for a GS-0018-15, Office of Safety and Environmental Health (SEH) Chief, located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Safety and Environmental Health in Washington, District of Columbia.
Basic Requirements: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: 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. EXPERIENCE: Experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Examples of qualifying experience include: Managing safety or occupational health program elements. Developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management. 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. Developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards. Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses. Analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards. Designing or modifying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards. 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. Training of workers, supervisors, managers, or other safety and occupational health personnel in safety or occupational health subjects. Work in occupational fields such as industrial hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, and occupational health nurse. AND To qualify at the GS-15 grade level, your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the abilities, skills, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Examples of specialized experience include performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis: Safety Policies - Leveraging all existing and emerging safety policies, techniques and procedures to reduce safety risk encountered in the operation, or support of, all missions. Project/Program Negotiations - Interacting with high-ranking personnel from military, maritime, or federal agency supervisors, managers or technical staffs to justify, defend, or negotiate projects and programs, to obtain or commit resources, or to gain compliance with established policies, regulations, and contracts. Strategic Risk Management - Directing, developing, reviewing and approving aviation, afloat or shore operational and support function safety programs that apply a holistic, enterprise-wide perspective to identify and mitigate hazards to reduce risk to members and maintain operational readiness. Communication - Using oral and written communication practices to present complex concepts and proposals to the highest levels of leadership as well as national level executives in federal government and civilian safety organizations. Mishap Analysis - Fluency with post mishap processes to ensure a systematic and thorough mishap analysis response that captures lessons learned and prevents mishaps. Familiarity with mishap analysis techniques, e.g., Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) to analyze for human factors influences. Mishap Prevention - Promoting lessons learned to improve policy, TTP (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures), guidance, training, etc., to eliminate/mitigate hazards and prevent mishap recurrence. NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or related applicable assessment) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.
You will serve as the Coast Guard Chief of Safety and Environmental Health (SEH) and provide leadership, direction and management of a comprehensive Coast Guard-wide aviation, afloat, ashore, industrial activity, and off-duty safety program worldwide. You will be responsible for conceiving, formulating, promulgating and directing a progressive program, and ensure the program is effectively and efficiently administered and aligned with Coast Guard missions. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Directing, developing, reviewing and approving all Coast Guard operational and support function safety programs that applies a holistic, enterprise-wide perspective on reducing risks to members and the organization. Representing the agency and headquarters staff in sensitive, technical and controversial negotiations with subordinate levels of the organization, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations of national and international stature, and military organizations of foreign nations. Directing preparations for Coast Guard participation in Joint Service Safety Council (JSSC) conferences, a semiannual meeting of the senior safety executives of the military services. Proposing and sponsoring research and development projects that develop new risk management tools and expanding and deeply integrating risk management principles and human factors into all operational and mission support functions. Generating new service-wide operational and mission support safety and occupational/environmental health management and administrative principles, developing new original concepts for evaluating risks and determining appropriate risk controls for all operational and mission support missions and functions, and evaluating Coast Guard-wide programs and projects of national and global importance.