SAFETY & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

Summary

You will serve as a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist in the Australia Maintenance Support Waterfront Environmental, Safety and Health Division of PEARL HARBOR NSY AND IMF . The location for this position is Garden Island, Australia. ***See Additional Information section below for details***

Duties

• You will develop and maintain standard procedures for effective occupational safety and health programs to ensure operations remain in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
• You will support the execution of the occupational safety and health programs (OSH) and management strategies developed for Post Detachment Stirling.
• You will be the technical authority on compliance issues and primary program representative with foreign and local agencies for regulatory inspections and dialogue regarding occupational safety and health, injury reporting and workplace monitoring.
• You will develop and integrate any new requirements into the various work processes taking into consideration compliance, cost, schedule and quality.
• You will review all applicable foreign, Federal, State, Navy, and local occupational safety and health programs requirements to identify gaps and differences of requirements.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Analyzing safety and occupational health program regulations and evaluating industrial construction, repair, overhaul or maintenance operations to identify, control, or eliminate occupational hazards. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0018/safety-and-occupational-health-management-series-0018/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Military Spouses and Family Members may apply 30 days before their anticipated arrival date. However, they will not receive preference until arrival at the foreign location. Additional documentation may be required prior to granting preference. Military spouses and family members who are appointed may not extend longer than 2 months following the transfer of the sponsor from the commuting area of the foreign duty station; 2 months beyond the separation of the appointee's sponsor; or any time beyond the time employee ceases to be a family member. Priority consideration will be given to military spouse preference and family member preference eligible residing in the commute area of the duty location for this position. Commute area is defined as the geographic area surrounding the duty location in which people can reasonably be expected to travel back and forth daily. PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ***Upon relocation to Australia, employee pay will be based upon the final post of duty to which the employee is assigned in Australia. Employees directed to a foreign post of duty in Australia may be authorized overseas allowances in accordance with the Department of State Standardized Regulation to include foreign transfer allowance, temporary quarters allowance, living quarters allowance and other allowances to which they are eligible.*** Must be able to obtain access to all work areas of PDS (Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility). This position requires the incumbent to attend radiological training and successfully qualify as a radiation worker.