Supervisory Safety & Occupational Health Manager-Detail/Temporary Promotion

Summary

The Supervisory Safety & Occupational Health Manager is responsible for development and management of comprehensive programs to include general occupational safety, industrial hygiene, fire prevention/life safety, hazardous materials and waste management, emergency preparedness, environmental risk management, and regulatory compliance. This is a Temporary Promotion Not to Exceed 120 days but may be extended as needed and or converted to permanent without further competition.

Duties

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Provides direct supervision to employees performing a variety of duties within the scope of Safety and Occupational Health Programs. Develop performance standards, writing position descriptions, assigning work to be accomplished, evaluating work performance, schedule work and leave, counseling employees, initiating disciplinary actions, and addressing employee complaints. Initiates recruitment actions, interviews and selects new employees. Determines staff training needs and obtains resources for continuing education. Responsible for program objectives and performance improvement strategies. Sets short and long-range goals, develops strategic plans, leads development and implementation of performance improvement indicators. Monitors regulatory environment to anticipate changing priorities, program objectives, staffing and financial resources. Directs administrative functions of multiple, complex programs; prepares statistical and investigative reports Prepares executive briefings and summary reports fort he Administrative Executive Board, Performance Improvement Board, and Executive Council of the Governing Body. Co-Chairs the Medical Center Environment of Care (EOC) Committee with the Associate Medical Center Director; identifies agenda issues and ensures proceedings comply with VHA and JACHO requirements, including performance improvement indicators and annual EOC management plan reviews; approves minutes for submission to the Associate Director and Director. Plans, organizes, and directs occupational safety and health programs to promote safety of staff, visitors and patients in a wide variety of settings to include: the Medical Center and Extended Care facility, community out-placement facilities (contracted nursing homes, residential care homes, adult day care centers, half-way homes, and community outreach centers), leased spaces and community-based outpatient clinics. Directs surveillance methods and schedules to identify a wide range of hazards, to evaluate facilities' compliance with VHA, JCAHO and NFPA standards, and to minimize risks to staff, visitors, patients, and facilities, lead staff in development of corrective actions and closure. Plans and directs programs for management of hazardous materials and waste; plans policy and procedure to achieve compliance with VHA - GEMS, OSHA, and EPA regulations. Establishes medical center policy and procedures through research, collaboration and publication for: occupational safety and health, incident management, hazard surveillance, life safety, industrial hygiene, hazardous materials and waste management, emergency management, construction safety, and environmental compliance (GEMS). Plans and directs programs for emergency preparedness; develops medical center policy and procedure to include facility-wide response protocols for a comprehensive range of disaster scenarios, both internal and external; directs disaster exercises in accordance with VHA, CARF, CAP and JCAHO requirements, medical center hazard vulnerability assessment and facility experience. Directs medical center-wide staff education and training in all required elements of occupational safety and health, ergonomics, fire safety, hazardous materials, industrial hygiene, emergency procedures, Green Environment Management Systems (GEMS), and other topics as required by standards and regulations. Work Schedule: Monday -Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00pm Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Safety & Occupational Health Manager-Detail/Temporary Promotion/PD083500 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Qualifications

**This announcement has been amended to add supporting documentation- Any applicants that have applied before amendment note will be considered and documentation requested: **NOTE: Requires supporting documentation of approval to be uploaded with your application. Failure to provide supporting documentation may result in your application not being considered.** To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/28/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) Requirement: An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for the Safety and Occupational Health Management Series 0018. To qualify for this occupational series, applicants must have one of the following listed below: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from among the following (or closely related) disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology. OR, Specialized experience: Experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Managing safety or occupational health program elements. Developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management. Applying safety and occupational health laws, regulations, principles, theories, practices, and procedures to advise on or resolve technical matters dealing with occupational safety and health requirements. Developing safety and occupational health standards, regulations, practices, and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards. Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses. Analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the existence, severity, probability, and outcome of hazards. Designing or modifying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems to control or eliminate hazards. Inspecting or surveying workplaces, processes, products, or other systems for compliance with established safety and occupational health policies or standards and to identify potential new hazards. Training of workers, supervisors, managers, or other safety and occupational health personnel in safety or occupational health subjects. Work in occupational fields such as industrial hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, and occupational health nurse. In addition to the above IOR, applicants may qualify based on