SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST TITLE 32 INDEFINITE

Compatible military grade and assignment required prior to the effective date of placement. This is an Title 32 INDEFINITE excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard. Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter PRIOR to applying for this position.

Military Grades: Officer 02 to 04; Warrant Officer CW2 to CW4 Compatible Military Assignments: MOS IMMATERIAL GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must have minimum experience in scientific or technical work that provided an understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the safety and occupational health field. Perform as a team member, specified survey work to identify and evaluate hazardous and nonhazardous work and conditions. Applied conventional survey techniques to complete relatively uncomplicated evaluations.

Made recommendations concerning corrective procedures where the potential for injury or property damage exists. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 12 months of experience, education, or training at the lower grade level (GS-11) performing industrial construction standards, methods, practices, techniques, materials, equipment, and utility systems sufficient to determine compliance with building safety standards and devise hazard control measures applicable to airport ground facilities and supporting industrial shops.

Knowledge of psychological and physiological factors sufficient to develop a ground aviation safety education activity for supervisors and employees, to motivate maintenance personnel to apply safe working practices and to persuade supervisors to accept changes or modifications where required to achieve a safe working environment.

Performed safety and occupational health principles, practices, procedures and standards applicable to a full range of complex safety and occupational health management responsibilities at a military aviation installation and requiring the planning, organizing, directing, operating and evaluation of a safety and occupational health program related to ground aviation, industrial and marine operations.

Performed aviation maintenance work processes and support equipment, airport ground operations, facilities and runway maintenance techniques, and industrial work processes.

MAJOR DUTIES: Serves as the State, Territory, District of Columbia Safety and Occupational Health Specialist in the maintenance of a comprehensive ground and explosives, safety program for the State. Provides technical expertise for the State ARNG Safety and Occupational Health Management Systems(ASOHMS) within the broad framework of statutory public law, DOD, Army, and National Guard policy ,goals, and objectives.

Executes resources for personnel requirements and safety programs necessary to support program goals, objectives, and directives. Implements SOH plans, requirements, methods, and assess risks to improve safety in the workplace and off-duty environments. The SOHM specialist executes a complex SO&EH program for a broad occupational field involving awide variety of changing, high risk operations, environmental conditions, and hazardous materials.

Conducts annual reviews of the State SOH Plan to include all applicable Army SOH functional areas. Assists in the development of State safety policy and Standard Operating Procedures for SOH programs.

Functional program responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Executes, monitors and evaluates installation SOH functional Safety and Occupational Health Programs for effective implementation, to include; Workplace Operations, Workplace safety, Hazard communication programs, Industrial operations (lockout/tagout, confined space, fall protection),Emergency planning and response, Safety Training and Education of SOH programs consisting of training needs assessments of subordinate organizations mission and operational needs.

Community, Off-Duty Recreation, and Seasonal Safety, Public, family, child, and youth safety, Tactical Operations, Tactical safety, Force mobilization, Transportation Safety, Motor vehicle mishap prevention, Maritime activities, Safe cargo operations, Radiation and Laser Safety, Aviation Safety Management, System safety management, Facilities system safety (FASS) program management, Ammunition and Explosives (AE) Safety, Range Safety Operations, Electrical Safety, Fire and Emergency Services(F&ES) Safety, and Contract Safety.

Performs inspections. Coordinates, conducts, and participates in safety and occupational health inspections and surveys in a widespread geographic dispersion of diverse operations posing serious hazards of unpredictable consequences to humans and property. Observes employee performance, environmental conditions, facilities, and equipment in a constantly changing operational environment. Identifies complex and unconventional hazards, and unsafe conditions and practices.

Weighs, considers, and evaluates findings, assigns risk assessment codes, recommends corrective actions, and conducts follow-up inspections. Coordinates abatement with key staff (Commanders, Directors, supervisors, managers, employees, and labor union). Evaluates effectiveness of countermeasures. Reviews findings of safety surveys conducted by safety committees and determines appropriate action required.