Safety Engineer
As a Safety Engineer, you will:
Oversee a laboratory's management of environment, safety, and health systems, ensuring requirements are in accordance with safety engineering laws and regulations as well as other applicable environment, safety, and health (ES&H) and engineering requirements. Support an organization on reporting and investigations of incidents to upper management involving a laboratory's subcontractor worker injuries and illnesses, near misses, operational events, property damage and other organization reportable occurrences. Reviews proposed environment, safety, and health policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards to determine consistency with accepted engineering principles and practices and recommend technical changes. Perform evaluations of troubleshooting activities, investigations, and root cause analyses, tracking and trending of accidents, injuries and near misses, and selection and implementation of corrective actions. Provide support to an organization's program/project managers to ensure effective implementation of safety systems in construction, operations, dismantling and decommissioning, maintenance, and configuration management of facility safety systems. Represent an organization at safety meetings and conferences including those where safety standards and requirements are developed, modified, or evaluated. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTSA qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as:
GS-09:
assisting other senior Safety Engineers in ensuring the safety and health of employees, the public and the protection of the environment; assists in overseeing the implementation of existing safety engineering practices and procedures, body of laws, regulations, and precedent decisions in relation to safety operations. GS-11:
working with other senior Safety Engineers in ensuring Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) programs reduce the frequency, severity and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses; participates with other Senior Engineers in the oversight of existing safety engineering practices and procedures, body of laws, regulations, and precedent decisions in relation to safety operations. Your application and resume should demonstrate that you possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs). Do not provide a separate narrative written statement. Rather, you must describe in your application how your past work experience demonstrates that you possess the KSAs identified below. Cite specific examples of employment or experience contained in your resume and describe how this experience has prepared you to successfully perform the duties of this position. DO NOT write see resume in your application! Knowledge in concepts, theories, principles, and practices of engineering practices and procedures, body of laws, regulations, and precedent decisions applicable to environment, safety, and health and applies these theories and concepts to experimental and industrial operations through Federal oversight of contractor performance. Knowledge of environment, safety and health risks associated with Federal research programs, facilities, and operations based upon information obtained from safety documentation, hazard classification, and analyses and routine operational awareness activities. Skill in review of design safety features and controls of equipment and facilities, compensating for the possibility of human errors in the operation of machinery and equipment. Knowledge in incident investigation and the identification of root causes. Knowledge of environment, safety, and health systems as applied to program and project management of complex technical/administrative enterprises sufficient to anticipate, avoid, or solve problems and evaluate contractor performance. Skill in written and oral communication to present organizational programs, plans, reports, and/or problems in suitable form for top-level policy decisions. Ability to develop, organize, and present ideas, technical information and data in written form. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include:
volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. 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.CTAP/ICTAP candidates:
To be considered well qualified you must meet all of the requirements as described in this section.You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Oversee a laboratory's management of environment, safety, and health systems, ensuring requirements are in accordance with safety engineering laws and regulations as well as other applicable environment, safety, and health (ES&H) and engineering requirements. Support an organization on reporting and investigations of incidents to upper management involving a laboratory's subcontractor worker injuries and illnesses, near misses, operational events, property damage and other organization reportable occurrences. Reviews proposed environment, safety, and health policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards to determine consistency with accepted engineering principles and practices and recommend technical changes. Perform evaluations of troubleshooting activities, investigations, and root cause analyses, tracking and trending of accidents, injuries and near misses, and selection and implementation of corrective actions. Provide support to an organization's program/project managers to ensure effective implementation of safety systems in construction, operations, dismantling and decommissioning, maintenance, and configuration management of facility safety systems. Represent an organization at safety meetings and conferences including those where safety standards and requirements are developed, modified, or evaluated. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTSA qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as:
GS-09:
assisting other senior Safety Engineers in ensuring the safety and health of employees, the public and the protection of the environment; assists in overseeing the implementation of existing safety engineering practices and procedures, body of laws, regulations, and precedent decisions in relation to safety operations. GS-11:
working with other senior Safety Engineers in ensuring Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) programs reduce the frequency, severity and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses; participates with other Senior Engineers in the oversight of existing safety engineering practices and procedures, body of laws, regulations, and precedent decisions in relation to safety operations. Your application and resume should demonstrate that you possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs). Do not provide a separate narrative written statement. Rather, you must describe in your application how your past work experience demonstrates that you possess the KSAs identified below. Cite specific examples of employment or experience contained in your resume and describe how this experience has prepared you to successfully perform the duties of this position. DO NOT write see resume in your application! Knowledge in concepts, theories, principles, and practices of engineering practices and procedures, body of laws, regulations, and precedent decisions applicable to environment, safety, and health and applies these theories and concepts to experimental and industrial operations through Federal oversight of contractor performance. Knowledge of environment, safety and health risks associated with Federal research programs, facilities, and operations based upon information obtained from safety documentation, hazard classification, and analyses and routine operational awareness activities. Skill in review of design safety features and controls of equipment and facilities, compensating for the possibility of human errors in the operation of machinery and equipment. Knowledge in incident investigation and the identification of root causes. Knowledge of environment, safety, and health systems as applied to program and project management of complex technical/administrative enterprises sufficient to anticipate, avoid, or solve problems and evaluate contractor performance. Skill in written and oral communication to present organizational programs, plans, reports, and/or problems in suitable form for top-level policy decisions. Ability to develop, organize, and present ideas, technical information and data in written form. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include:
volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. 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.CTAP/ICTAP candidates:
To be considered well qualified you must meet all of the requirements as described in this section.You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
- Department:
0803 Safety Engineering - Salary Range:
$58,672 to $92,281 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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