Safety & Occupational Health Manager
What you'd do
The Institutional Safety Advisor supports the Institutional Safety Management Office by providing Agency-wide safety expertise. The position develops policy and program elements to ensure compliance with federal safety requirements, identifies program challenges through assessments and working groups, promotes continuous improvement, and supports occupational safety and safety management systems with a focus on worker exposure protection.
Major duties
Provide institutional safety program guidance and oversight to Centers, Enterprise Organizations and Programs across the Agency; including commercial partners and Federal tenants; Develop and benchmark policy for Agency and partner operations related to safety and occupational health; Make observations and recommendations to senior managers to drive changes in safety and health policy, processes, risk mitigation strategies and collaborative work initiatives; Prioritize work and integrate overlapping tasks performed by Institutional Safety Management Office staff, contract staff, Center experts and Agency working groups to meet strategic goals of the Institutional Safety Program; Develop elements of an Agency strategy to increase awareness and understanding of the multi-employer worksite doctrine within NASA’s internal corporate environment and in relationships with commercial partners operating on federal property; Develop an integrated strategy to promote coordinated tasks and initiatives of the Occupational Safety, Industrial/Infrastructure Safety and Process Safety program areas; Manage development of new tools, processes, metrics, assessments, training and communications designed to help improve the Institutional Safety Program; Design and execute an audit and assessment program for the Occupational Safety program area, focused on Center Program Reviews and their implementation of Institutional Safety Authority and a Center level Safety Management System.
What you need to qualify
Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Managing occupational health and safety compliance programs for large scale corporate or industrial environments; Identifying and mitigating operational hazards and employee exposures associated with industrial, maintenance, and construction activities by conducting comprehensive program, facility, and task analyses to improve safety, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce operational risk; and Evaluating current safety programs, processes and procedures in a multi-employer workplace to identify occupational hazards, evaluate regulatory compliance, and recommend corrective actions to reduce risk and protect worker safety and health. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.
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