This position is located in the Safety Section of the Facilities Maintenance Service at the VA Medical Center in Hampton, VA.

Qualifications:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

One year of specialized experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of this position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in Federal service.

Examples of qualifying experience include:

working in occupational fields such as industrial hygienist, safety engineer, fire prevention engineer, health physicist, or occupational health nurse that required managing safety or occupational health program elements; developing safety and occupational health policies, standards, regulations, practices, and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards and recommending procedures/solutions to higher levels of management; 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. This experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit. This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. The Selective Placement Factor for this position is: Working knowledge of the codes and standards established by Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Fire Protection Association. This experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ .