Safety and Occupational Health Specialist - SV-0018-H - Transportation Security Administration - Queens, New York - EXPIRED

This Safety and Occupational Health Specialist position is located in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position you will be responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and developing the programs and processes concerned with safety and occupational functions and supporting the safety function at an airport at the hub level including the coordination of safety functions performed at the associated spoke airports. Work performed minimizes human injury and property losses due to harmful incidents incurred by designing of management policies, programs and practices. You will apply experience and advanced knowledge of safety and occupational health program principles, concepts, regulations, practices, analytical methods and techniques to perform multiple and varying assignments. Typical duties include:

• Providing coordination of the safety program with airport management, spoke airports, the Office of Security Operations, and other program areas by coordinating/facilitating delivery of services as required.
• Providing ongoing services to managers, assigned organizations, and employees in their assigned program areas to include initiating, tracking and following up on cases and studies to ensure timely completion and regulatory compliance.
• Providing advice and guidance to professionals, managers, and employees sufficient to resolve recurring problems or those requiring adaptation of past precedents through the sharing of information or recommending alternative and appropriate approaches, including the review of policies and precedents with limited guidance.
• Undertaking extensive research and analysis and coordinating with more senior specialists and/or supervisors as necessary to ensure that the most recent guidance is applied when making technical decisions or advising managers, staff, and employees. Recommending unprecedented interpretations of guidance consistent with mission requirements and compliance with underlying statutes, and applying considerable discretion in advocating specific courses of action.
• Identifying and proposing technically sound and administratively compliant solutions to a range of complex but recurring safety hazards and risks requiring considerable judgment to ensure that recommendations and approaches best meet TSA operational needs.
• Designing and conducting studies where the issues under review are complex and require recommending program changes or improvements to systems and processes.
• Developing and providing instruction and training content for airport employees and supervisors to reduce or eliminate potential accident related losses.
• Providing training and guidance on the handling, transportation, and maintenance of hazardous materials.
• Serving as a troubleshooter regarding causes for accidents or losses and implementing adjustments in processes to prevent future incidents.
• Conducting routine safety inspections.
• Reporting on safety, accidents, implementation of preventative measures, and status.
• Providing guidance to more junior analysts as appropriate to accomplish ongoing work.

To qualify for the SV-H Pay Band, (equivalent to GS-12), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-G or GS-11 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such experience will include coordinating, monitoring, and developing safety and occupational health functions, programs, and processes and reporting on safety, accidents, implementation of preventative measures and program status to program management.

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.

Note: Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime.

You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:

You will be evaluated based on a comparison of the position requirements against the quality and extent of the experience and/or related education as reflected in your resume and supporting documentation. You are encouraged to ensure work experiences clearly show possession of the competencies required for this position. We will compare your resume and supporting documentation to your responses on the assessment questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and any supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your category placement may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job.

When completing the assessment questionnaire for this position, you will be prompted to elect if you wish for your application to be considered as External (where Veterans’ Preference applies), as Status (current or former Federal Employees), and/or Internal to TSA as a current permanent or competitive temporary employee. At that time, please select the answer(s) that apply to you and your application to this position.

Candidates will be rated and ranked using Category Grouping procedures. Under Category Grouping, candidates will be rated and ranked into one of three categories:

Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;

Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceed the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job; and

Qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
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