Safety Engineer
What you'd do
As a Safety Engineer, you will support the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and provide institutional safety program expertise across the Agency. You will also be responsible for the development of policy and program elements ensuring Agency compliance with Federal Safety Program requirements and closely related industry standards.
Major duties
Provide industrial/infrastructure 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 industrial/infrastructure safety. 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 Agency strategy supporting safety engineering, safety and operational readiness certification, inspection and design review processes, and industrial safety surveillance. 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 audit and assessment programs for industrial and infrastructure safety, including peer reviews of building, fire, electrical, lifting device, and construction safety compliance.
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 for industrial, maintenance or construction type activities as part of a program, facility or task analysis. Performing inspections, evaluations, audits or studies of worker exposure to hazards in multi-employer workplace/worksite setting. 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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