Safety and Occupational Health Manager- SV-0018-J - Transportation Security Administration - Arlington, Virginia - EXPIRED

This Safety and Occupational Health Manager position is located in the Occupational Safety and Health Branch, of the Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment Division, within the Office of Finance and Administration (OFA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will be responsible to plan, organize, direct, lead, and evaluate TSA\'s comprehensive nationwide occupational safety and health program affecting more than 500 geographically dispersed workplaces and over 60,000 employees, ensuring compliance with a broad range of occupational safety and health standards and regulations. Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• Supervising more than one unit, project, or program within the Occupational Safety and Health Branch, which encompasses 11 subordinates of which 5 are geographically dispersed.
• Serving as the principal point of contact with authority to make recommendations in the development and application of new occupational safety and health policies and procedures at stakeholder meetings, interagency meetings, and national conferences.
• Formulating and recommending positions on major occupational safety and health projects, policies, and issues to senior management.
• Develop briefings to internal and external audiences on TSA strategic vision and policies.
• Drafting, editing, and reviewing policies and procedures, project papers, statistical reports, and correspondence within the framework of current goals and objectives, legislation, and Executive Orders.
• Identifying operational needs and managing the procurement, development, integration, modification, and operations and maintenance of a safety information system.
• Providing technical guidance and expert advice to TSA leadership, various program offices, subordinates, and the labor union, ensuring effective implementation and regulatory compliance of the TSA occupational safety and health program.

To qualify for the SV-J Pay Band(equivalent to GS-14), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-I Pay Band or GS-13 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experienceis defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Such experience includes experience in occupational safety and health program management to include planning, coordinating, and meeting program objectives and requirements through the acquisition of any mix of in-house, contract, or reimbursable support resources; experience in developing, and implementing acquisition plans, and administering and managing occupational safety and health-related contracts; and experience creating technical reports, briefing papers, safety and health policy and manuals, requiring the development of new and innovative approaches to communicate to a variety of audiences.


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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