TRADE SAFETY ADVOCATE

• You will serve directly as a Lifting and Handling consultant for various management levels on safety related regulatory requirements, shipyard processes, practices, and procedures governing industrial work.
• You will identify and evaluate a variety of hazards that may affect approximately 900 personnel in the Lifting and Handling Department, as well as personnel who work adjacent to, or participate in, associated weight handling work.
• You will serve as the lead safety expert in various Lifting and Handling processes, practices, procedures, and policies.
• You will collect and analyze various forms of data in order to evaluate and determine program effectiveness, set program goals, develop corrective actions and use data to advise managers on current and trending safety issues identified.
• You will conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections in buildings, dry docks, aboard ships, cranes, and other industrial support equipment, around piers, and in various facilities
• You will provide mentoring assistance and direction to department personnel, as well as production shop safety program personnel, to ensure prevention of injuries.
• You will provide guidance and training as needed to shop mechanics, supervisors, and senior managers.
• You will apply methods, techniques, and abatements to control or eliminate unsafe practices or conditions.
• You will brief customers and senior managers on program and project status, updates, anticipated findings and corrective actions related to the department's safety program, activities, goals, performance, and health during and after audits.
• You will provide mishap investigations and advise investigation boards convened to ascertain causal factors precipitating fatalities, serious injuries, or substantial property damage.
• You will apply investigative techniques, appropriate safety standards, and sound practices necessary to conduct a comprehensive report that fully and accurately documents final conclusions.
• You will manage Mishap Safety Reports (MSR) submitted for OSHA recordable injury reporting, and Employees' Compensation and Management Portal (ECOMP) for employee occupational injury and illness claims.
• You will ensure proper adherence to Personal Identification Information (PII) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to ensure employee information remains protected and kept confidential.
• You will review Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) controls for incorporation into work procedures and operations where the potential for injury, health impairment, or property and material damage exists.
• You will prepare or provide guidance in reports listing findings with recommendations to correct unsafe and unhealthful acts, conditions, or procedures, which may have caused injury, impairment, or property and material damage.
• You will act as the Lifting and Handling Environmental Coordinator ensuring compliance and awareness is sustained to maintain local and federal requirements and ensure proper waste disposal environmental policies are met.
• You will act as the Lock-Out-Tags-Plus Coordinator for hazardous energy control.
• You will review blueprints, fall protection plans, job hazard analysis (JHA), drawings, risk mitigations, hazardous energy control procedures and other technical documents to identify and evaluate OSH requirements.
• You will research, gather, and analyze information to prepare administrative correspondence, audit response and management reports related to safety performance.

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes when required.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to work in confined spaces.
• Performance of work frequently requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as walking, standing, bending, climbing of stairs and ladders, crouching, reaching, and lifting of moderately weighted items.
• You will be required to climb ladders and scaffolding.
• You will be required to work onboard ships.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: analyzing and evaluating safety related regulatory requirements, processes, and procedures governing industrial work to evaluate and determine program effectiveness.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site:

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.



This job does not have an education qualification requirement.



This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at:

PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application:?1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link:

Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

Temporary promotions may be extended up to 5 years at the discretion of management and in accordance with applicable regulations.

Temporary actions taken under this announcement may be made permanent without further competition.

Temporary actions taken under this announcement may be terminated at any time before the established not-to-exceed date.

This position is subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required.