Deputy Director, Safety and Occupational Health

Deputy Director, Safety and Occupional Health Legislive Branch Architect of the Capitol Summary This position is loced in the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), Office of Safety and Code Compliance (OSCC). Serves as the Deputy Director of the Safety, Occupional Health and Accessibility Division and is responsible for the total range of the division's programs, including planning, organizing, directing, controlling and managing both the programs as well as the resources assigned to the Division. Acts on behalf of the Safety Director in the Safety Director's absence. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced in the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), Office of Safety and Code Compliance (OSCC). Serves as the Deputy Director of the Safety, Occupional Health and Accessibility Division and is responsible for the total range of the division's programs, including planning, organizing, directing, controlling and managing both the programs as well as the resources assigned to the Division. Acts on behalf of the Safety Director in the Safety Director's absence. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply by 06/02/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 2, 2026 Locion Architect of the Capitol Washington, DC 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—Telework as Directed by Agency Policy Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $143,913 - $187,093 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time - This is an Excepted Service position and does not require or confer civil service Competitive Stus Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent - Permanent, Full Time Occupions and job series 0803 Safety Engineering Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

OSCC-2026-222

Control number 869458500 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency Applicions Will be Accepted from all USA Citizens.

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Please be advised th federal retired annuitant candides may only be considered as a temporary employee if the role can be filled in th capacity. Duties Help •This position is essential. The employee is required to report to work during emergencies and inclement weher situions.

Major Duties:

Supervisory and/or Managerial Responsibilities Performs administrive and technical supervisory functions for subordines. Articules and communices to the safety team the assignment, project or problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones and/or pprogram issues under review. Set deadline or time frames for completion. Assigns duties and evaluies performance. Develops performance requirements for subordines. Assists the Safety Director in decisions conforming with occupional safety and health standards applicable to The Architect of the Capitol and with all rules, regulions, and orders issued by the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR) and the Architect of the Capitol with respect to the occupional safety and health programs. Prepares and works with the Safety Director with establishing safety priorities throughout the AOC. Safety and Health Program Management Assists the Safety Director as the technical program manager for the Architect of the Capitol's broad safety and health and compliance program. The incumbent is responsible for assisting in the planning, development, coordinion, and oversight of all AOC policies, procedures and practices pertaining to occupional safety, health and accessibility, as well as the compliance of the AOC with the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), OSHA 1904,1910 and 1926, DOJ Title I, II, III, requirements. As the technical authority, provides expert advice and assistance to AOC personnel and other federal agencies on the Capitol complex on mters reling to the development, execution and monitoring of highly visible, controversial and politically sensitive safety, health and accessibility protection policies, plans, and programs. Effectively deals with difficult and complex technical, project management, and organizional problems using innovive and original approaches. Serves on behalf of the Safety Director in their absence as the agency representive in mters reled to safety, health and accessibility compliance before Federal, ste, and industry authorities and acts as the primary Agency interface with safety and health or DOJ regulors the Federal, Ste and Local levels. Maintains contacts directly with regulors on routine compliance and reporting mters. Acts as the Agency technical expert and participes with Agency counsel in responding to and negotiing regulory enforcement actions. Consults with key government officials and top experts in the safety, health and accessibility area(s) and acts for the Architect of the Capitol technical symposia and conferences. Safety and Health Engineering Project Management and Planning Work Oversee the agency's Safey and Health Engineering and accessibility programs and reled projects. Manages significant elements or phases of safety and health and accessibility remediion projects. Exercises responsibility for the functional management and oversight of these prrograms as directed via jurisdicional inspections, project monitoring and complex wide surveys in addition to developing and executing occupional safety and health, and accessibility programs for the agency. Contractor Oversight Handles and assesses contractor efforts and assesses technical progress in relion to the established schedule and resources allotted. Reviews plans, specificions, and cost estimes for technical adequacy. Reports progress and/or problems. Where deficiencies are noted, directs necessary changes, resolves controversial problems, assures conformance to plans and specificions, and furnishes other assistance as required. Serves as a Contracting Officer's Representive (COR) on assigned projects. Technical Engineering Advice and Guidance Serves as an expert consultant on challenging problems in safety and health engineering for an agency having responsibility for an engineering program of nional or internional scope and impact. Works with all levels of local management and program officials, key personnel of other agency locions, other government agencies and prive industry to resolve and track complex and controversial problems th arise and assures the overall resolution of issues. Finds and labels structural changes and repairs necessary for personnel protection and compliance in AOC properties and designs comprehensive plans to carry out changes. Supplies expert advice to the officials and staff of AOC jurisdictions, including various Executives regarding aspects of design, modernizion, construction, operion and maintenance of facilities, systems and equipment. Offers expert advice to AOC senior managers or directly to the Architect of the Capitol and the Chief Engineer, Chief of Operions or Chief of Security regarding safety and health. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Your resume and question responses must demonstre the job-reled KSAs. You must meet the definition of specialized experience. Must meet the educional requirement for Engineers. You must be able to pass a drug test. To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position, an individual must meet one of the cegories below: A citizen of the United Stes; A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declarion of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible; A person who owes allegiance to the United Stes (nionals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nionals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United Stes. Qualificions You must meet the United Stes Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualificion requirements (including specialized experience and/or educional requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualificions requirements by the closing de of the job announcement. Additional informion on the qualificion requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualificions Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site OPM qualificion standards Specialized experience : is experience th has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and th is typically in or reled to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to least the next lower grade level. Candides for the GS-14 grade level must have least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower (GS-13) grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is having experience th demonstres all of the following: Establishing safety and occupional health program goals and objectives to ensure safe and healthful working environment; Serving in a supervisory capacity with responsibility for planning and assigning work to subordine employees, monitoring and evaluing their performance, and counseling or disciplining employees regarding performance, conduct, or failure to perform sisfactorily. Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupional illnesses; Developing and recommending safety and occupional health policy to higher levels of management; and Auditing processes, products, or systems for compliance with established safety and occupional programs/policies. Educion In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements for this position, applicants must possess the following:

Undergradue and Gradue Educion:

Major study -- safety or occupional health fields (safety, occupional health, industrial hygiene), or degree in other reled fields th included or was supplemented by least 24 semester hours of study from among the following (or closely reled) disciplines: safety, occupional health, industrial hygiene, occupional medicine, toxicology, public health, mhemics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology. You must provide an official transcript before appointment. There is no educional substitution this grade level. Special Instructions for

Foreign Educion:

Educion completed outside of the United Stes must be deemed equivalent to th gained in conventional/accredited U.S. educion programs to be acceptable for Federal employment. Qualifying educion from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evalued in terms of equivalency to th acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educed in whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited prive organizion for an equivalency evaluion of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluion with a course by course listing if selected. Additional informion Welcome Veterans. The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) gives veterans' preference rights in the legislive branch to certain veterans as applied by the Congressional Accountability Act. Veterans' preference is applied on this vacancy announcement. If you are a veteran and have been separed under honorable conditions, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility; SF-15, if applicable; and Department of Veterans Affairs documention of disability, if applicable. For more informion, please OPM vet guide If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify th you have registered with the Selective Service System . If you are exempt from registrion under Selective Service Law, you must provide approprie proof of exemption. Please the Selective Service System website for more informion.

DRUG TESTING

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a Drug Free Workplace. As part of the AOC's suitability assessment, a candide tentively selected for a position who is not currently an AOC employee is required to submit to screening for illegal drug use. Sisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency. A candide must test negive prior to being eligible for appointment into a position. We will schedule, provide, and cover the cost for the drug test. The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S. Capitol Police and sisfactory adjudicion to be eligible for employment the Architect of the Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol is an

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Participant.

E-VERIFY

is an Internet-based system th compares informion from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verificion, to da from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administrion records to confirm employment authorizion in the United Stes. If you are selected for this position, the documention th you present for purposes of completing the DHS Form I-9 verified through the DHS "

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" electronic system. For more informion on E-Verify, please http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm The Architect of the Capitol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discriminion on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, nional origin, sexual oriention, gender identity, genetic informion, and/or disability. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency. The decision on granting reasonable accommodion on a case-by-case basis.

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Please be advised th federal retired annuitant candides may only be considered as a temporary employee if the role can be filled in th capacity. Moving expenses are not authorized. Relocion expenses are not authorized. Probionary Period - A newly appointed selectee is subject to the completion of a one-year trial/probionary period, regardless of whether or not a trial/probionary period has been completed previously with the Architect of the Capitol or another Federal agency. This vacancy announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies in any of the jurisdictions of the Architect of the Capitol. All applicion merials become the property of the Architect of the Capitol. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . A variety of health insurance plans; retirement system with investment options; paid holidays; paid sick and annual (vacion) leave; life insurance; incentive systems; subsidized transportion; training and development opportunities, etc. Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual re credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience. The amount of service credit based on specialized experience or qualifying experience th is provided on the applicant profile submitted. As such, if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire, it is important th you provide a work history th lists all directly reled positions held, and it must include the des of employment (month/day/year). The Architect of the Capitol offers eligible employees opportunity to participe in the Student Loan Repayment Program. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Review your resume and responses carefully. Your eligibility for considerion and qualificions for the position determined based upon a review of your detailed resume and your responses to job specific self-assessment questions. Your resume evalued based on evidence of your ability to demonstre the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for this position, possession of any specialized experience, and how well your background and experience reles to the self-assessment questions in the job announcement. The self-assessment questions rele to the following knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies: Ability to perform administrive and technical supervisory functions for subordines. Program Management - Knowledge of engineering design techniques, construction merials and methods, program management concepts and quality control. Technical knowledge of the Safety and Occupional Health field sufficient to make recommendions and/or develop safety and occupional health policies and/or programs. Ability to identify problems, genere alternives and make recommendions for solutions. Ability to effectively and efficiently communice both orally and in writing Your responses to the self assessment questions serve as the basis for your initial ring. You will receive a numerical score based on your responses to these questions. Next, your responses evalued by a Human Resources Specialist and/or a subject mter expert against the informion provided in your resume and optional cover letter. Your resume must support your answers to the self assessment questions. Falsifying your background, educion, and/or experience is cause for not hiring you or disqualificion for further considerion. Please note th a complete applicion is required for considerion. (Please review the "Required Documents" section of this job announcement to see wh must be included in a complete applicion). You may preview questions for this vacancy. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . A variety of health insurance plans; retirement system with investment options; paid holidays; paid sick and annual (vacion) leave; life insurance; incentive systems; subsidized transportion; training and development opportunities, etc. Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual re credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience. The amount of service credit based on specialized experience or qualifying experience th is provided on the applicant profile submitted. As such, if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire, it is important th you provide a work history th lists all directly reled positions held, and it must include the des of employment (month/day/year). The Architect of the Capitol offers eligible employees opportunity to participe in the Student Loan Repayment Program. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help The Architect of the Capitol's (AOC) job applicion process is designed to ensure you only provide informion necessary to evalue your qualificions and eligibility for the position vacancy. To apply for this position, you only need to submit: a) your resume and b) answers to the online vacancy assessment questionnaire . The online questionnaire contains eligibility and screening questions and other relevant informion. No additional documention or tachments are required the time of applicion. Your resume should list your educion, training and work experience including job titles, employment des, duties and accomplishments. Nothing further is required until it is requested by AOC's Human Capital Management Division . If additional documention is required for the position, you asked to provide it during the interview or selection process. At th time, you may be asked to submit documention to support stements made in your resume. For example, you may be asked to provide a copy of your diploma, college transcripts, or proof of Federal employment stus. If the position requires licensure or certificion, you asked to provide proof the time of selection. If Veterans' preference is claimed, you asked to submit proof (DD-214, and, if claiming a 10-point preference, a SF-15 and the proof required by th form). Failure to provide the required documents will end further considerion and/or result in the withdrawal of any tentive job offers. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help You MUST apply online. 

FORMS RECEIVED BY FAX, EMAIL OR U.S. POSTAL SERVICE DELIVERY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

If you are a new user to the USAJOBS Site and have never registered for an account; you will first need to cree an account profile with your basic contact informion and a resume to begin applying. You must be a registered USAJOBS user AND you must be signed-in to your account in order to apply for this position. For help with setting up an account or for general assistance in using USAJOBS, go to USAJOBS Help Page .

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If you experience any difficulties with the applicion site, help is available! If you have problems completing your on-line applicion, contact the Monster Hiring Management Help Desk 1-866-656-6831 or by e-mail MGSHELP@monster.com. The help desk is available Monday - Friday 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You may call and leave a voice mail message all other times. All required supporting documents collected electronically via the USAJOBS "Saved Documents" feure. If you are unable to apply on-line, you may our Employment Center for technical assistance in entering your applicion. The Employment Center is loced 441 Second & D Streets S.W., Washington, D.C., Room H2-178, and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You may call (202) 226-7000 for directions. Agency contact informion Paulette Dixon-Ellis Phone 000-000-0000 Fax 000-000-0000 Paulette.

Dixon-Ellis@aoc.gov Address Architect of the Capitol United Stes Capitol Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United Stes Next steps You will receive a notice genered by the USAJobs System when you have successfully submitted your applicion. We will review your applicion and transcript(s) (if you are qualifying based on educion) to ensure you meet the basic qualificion requirements. You can check the stus of your applicion by logging into http://www.usajobs.gov . You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion has changed by logging into your USAJobs Account, editing your profile and changing the 'Notificion Settings' to indice th you want to be notified by email when the stus changes. Informion regarding the stus of your applicion should be upded in the system within 2 weeks after the closing de of this job announcement. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help The Architect of the Capitol's (AOC) job applicion process is designed to ensure you only provide informion necessary to evalue your qualificions and eligibility for the position vacancy. To apply for this position, you only need to submit: a) your resume and b) answers to the online vacancy assessment questionnaire . The online questionnaire contains eligibility and screening questions and other relevant informion. No additional documention or tachments are required the time of applicion. Your resume should list your educion, training and work experience including job titles, employment des, duties and accomplishments. Nothing further is required until it is requested by AOC's Human Capital Management Division . If additional documention is required for the position, you asked to provide it during the interview or selection process. At th time, you may be asked to submit documention to support stements made in your resume. For example, you may be asked to provide a copy of your diploma, college transcripts, or proof of Federal employment stus. If the position requires licensure or certificion, you asked to provide proof the time of selection. If Veterans' preference is claimed, you asked to submit proof (DD-214, and, if claiming a 10-point preference, a SF-15 and the proof required by th form). Failure to provide the required documents will end further considerion and/or result in the withdrawal of any tentive job offers. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help You MUST apply online. 

FORMS RECEIVED BY FAX, EMAIL OR U.S. POSTAL SERVICE DELIVERY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

If you are a new user to the USAJOBS Site and have never registered for an account; you will first need to cree an account profile with your basic contact informion and a resume to begin applying. You must be a registered USAJOBS user AND you must be signed-in to your account in order to apply for this position. For help with setting up an account or for general assistance in using USAJOBS, go to USAJOBS Help Page .

NEED HELP?

If you experience any difficulties with the applicion site, help is available! If you have problems completing your on-line applicion, contact the Monster Hiring Management Help Desk 1-866-656-6831 or by e-mail MGSHELP@monster.com. The help desk is available Monday - Friday 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You may call and leave a voice mail message all other times. All required supporting documents collected electronically via the USAJOBS "Saved Documents" feure. If you are unable to apply on-line, you may our Employment Center for technical assistance in entering your applicion. The Employment Center is loced 441 Second & D Streets S.W., Washington, D.C., Room H2-178, and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You may call (202) 226-7000 for directions. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Paulette Dixon-Ellis Phone 000-000-0000 Fax 000-000-0000 Paulette.

Dixon-Ellis@aoc.gov Address Architect of the Capitol United Stes Capitol Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United Stes Next steps You will receive a notice genered by the USAJobs System when you have successfully submitted your applicion. We will review your applicion and transcript(s) (if you are qualifying based on educion) to ensure you meet the basic qualificion requirements. You can check the stus of your applicion by logging into http://www.usajobs.gov . You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion has changed by logging into your USAJobs Account, editing your profile and changing the 'Notificion Settings' to indice th you want to be notified by email when the stus changes. Informion regarding the stus of your applicion should be upded in the system within 2 weeks after the closing de of this job announcement. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply by 06/02/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 2, 2026 Locion Architect of the Capitol Washington, DC 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—Telework as Directed by Agency Policy Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $143,913 - $187,093 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time - This is an Excepted Service position and does not require or confer civil service Competitive Stus Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent - Permanent, Full Time Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

OSCC-2026-222

Control number 869458500