Safety and Occupational Health Specialist

Safety And Occupational Health Specialist

This Safety and Occupational Health Specialist position is located at George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport (IAH), Transportation Security Administration, 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.

The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position. Typically, the lower Pay Band (Pay Band G) performs the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and projects or work assignments may be less complex.