Safety and Occupational Health Specialist

Summary See below for important information regarding this job. Duties Serves as a non-supervisory safety specialist performing complex safety and occupational health issues, focusing on industrial hygiene, to anticipate, identify, evaluate, and control workplace hazards. Ensures implementation of safety program requirements to prevent accidental loss of resources and recommends measures to eliminate or control hazardous practices and conditions. Executes planning, monitoring, and ongoing evaluation of the organization’s Safety Management System and Safety Programs. Assists with comprehensive industrial hygiene surveys, exposure assessments, and special environmental monitoring tasks using a variety of instruments to determine potentially unsafe exposures to physical, chemical, and biological stressors. Conducts hazard analysis/characterization and program assessment of DLA operational procedures to ensure compatibility with safety standards. Recommends, validates, and coordinates implementation of effective engineering controls, administrative controls, and appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), including determining respirator capabilities. Evaluates key industrial hygiene programs, such as Hearing Conservation, Respiratory Protection, Hazard Communication, and Chemical Hygiene. Calibrates, operates, and maintains a variety of industrial hygiene monitoring and sampling equipment. Provides technical safety training to supervisors and employees on complex occupational health topics, including ventilation requirements, indoor air quality, interpreting safety data sheets, and health effects of workplace exposures. Qualifications To qualify for a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support: Specialized experience: at least one year of direct experience in or related to this position (GS‑11 equivalent). Creditable experience includes applicable exposure assessments, environmental monitoring, and related duties. Ability to apply safety and occupational health laws, regulations, principles, theories, practices, and procedures to advise on or resolve technical matters. Ability to apply industrial hygiene & safety principles; serve as a technical authority on complex safety and occupational health issues. Ability to conduct hazard and exposure assessments, performing environmental monitoring with industrial hygiene equipment. Ability to develop technical recommendations for engineering controls, administrative controls, and appropriate PPE. Ability to manage occupational health programs such as Hearing Conservation, Respiratory Protection, Hazard Communication, and Chemical Hygiene. Ability to provide advanced technical training to supervisors and employees on complex occupational health topics. Requirements U.S. citizen. Tour of Duty: 1st Shift. Security requirements: Non‑Critical Sensitive with Secret Access. Background checks must be favorable; unfavorable results may lead to removal from consideration. FLSA: Exempt. Selective Service: Males born after 12‑31‑59 must be registered or exempt. Real ID or other acceptable identification required for federal facility access. Pre‑employment physical examination required. Physical Demands Work requires some physical exertion, such as long periods of standing, walking over rough surfaces, bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities, and occasional lifting of moderately heavy items. Work Environment Work involves frequent inspections and on‑site visits of depot and industrial facilities at both CONUS and OCONUS locations, exposing employees to hazards such as moving machine parts, irritant chemicals, acid fumes, physical stresses, high noise levels, adverse weather, varying terrain, and high temperatures. Protective equipment and clothing are required as needed. #J-18808-Ljbffr