Safety and Occupational Health Specialist (Title 32) (Indefinite)

Safety and Occupional Health Specialist (Title 32) (Indefinite) Department of the Army Army Nional Guard Units Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a Safety and Occupional Health Specialist (Title 32) (Indefinite), Position Description Number D2939000 and is part of the

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THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a Safety and Occupional Health Specialist (Title 32) (Indefinite), Position Description Number D2939000 and is part of the

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HQ, Nional Guard. Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 03/11/2026 to 03/25/2026 Salary $78,009 to

• $101,417 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Fort Pickett, VA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary
• Indefinite Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) 0018 Safety and Occupional Health Management Supervisory stus No Security clearance Secret Drug test No Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number

VA-12907922-AR-26-212

Control number 860788400 This job is open to Help Nional Guard and reserves Current members, those who want to join or transitioning military members. Clarificion from the agency Indefinite appointments may be made permanent a ler de without competition. In order to be eligible for this position you must currently be an Enlisted Member (E7/SFC-E9/SGM), Warrant Officer (W1/WO1

• W3/CW3), or Commissioned Officer (O1/2LT-O3/CPT).

Duties Help As a Safety and Occupional Health Specialist (Title 32) (Indefinite), GS-0018-11, you will perform the below duties: Serves as the Ste, Territory, District of Columbia Safety and Occupional Health Specialist in the maintenance of a comprehensive ground and explosives, safety program for the Ste. Coordines with senior safety personnel and provides quality actions and plans for the sustainment of Ste ARNG Safety and Occupional Health Management Systems (ASOHMS) within the broad framework of stutory public law, DOD, Army, and Nional Guard policy, goals, and objectives. Implements plans, methods, and assess risks to improve safety in the workplace and off-duty environments. Reduces preventable mishaps in the preservion of ARNG personnel, equipment, facilities, and resources. The SOH Specialist executes a complex SO&EH program for a broad occupional field involving a wide variety of changing, high-risk operions, environmental conditions, and hazardous merials. Reviews and updes the Ste SOH Plan to include all applicable Army SOH functional areas. Reviews and updes Ste safety policy and Standard Opering Procedures for SOH programs. Performs inspections of daily operions and workplaces. Conducts or participes in. Identifies high risk hazardous operions and procedures and ensures mitigion countermeasures are effective. Performs inspections, assessments, and surveys of daily safety and occupional health operions and workplaces requiring a degree of physical exertion and considerable standing, walking, climbing, bending, crouching, stretching, lifting of moderely heavy objects, reaching or similar movements. Conducts safety educion. Prepares and distributes safety promotional and informive merials to maintain safety awareness. Prepares and conducts briefings, meetings, training classes, and associed functions. Determines safety educion requirements for individuals or groups. Develops training plans to ensure worker qualificion and competency. Prepares and conducts general and specialized training courses for supervisors, colleral duty representives, labor union representives, safety committees, and employees on safety reled mters. Participes in safety committee meetings to answer questions and provide recommendions. Performs or participes in mishap investigions involving Army personnel, equipment, property, or operions. Utilizes the Army Safety Informion Management System (ASMIS) to upload mishap reports. Interviews witnesses and supervisors to gher factual da. Identifies elements contributing to human and machine failure which may lead to injury or property damage. Assesses and analyzes findings and prepares reports including recommendions to reduce, elimine, or control the hazards and minimize the potential of recurrence. Prepares a final report of findings with recommendions to correct the unsafe acts or conditions which caused the injury or property damage, ensures on the spot correction. Measures trends and conducts analysis for meeting stregic objectives. Reviews purchase, service, and construction contracts. Reviews drawings and specificions for new construction and building alterions to determine the degree of compliance with standards and regulory criteria. Recommends procedures to control or elimine hazardous operions or conditions. Prepares safety criteria applicable to the contracts. Reviews contract proposals, stements of work, performance work stements, local purchase requests, and work requests for inclusion of safety criteria. Reviews contractor safety plans' inclusion of safety requirements which are applicable to the type of work being performed or product to be delivered for acceptance. Participes in preconstruction conferences, pre

• and post
• award meetings, and pre
• and final inspections.

Coordines with external agencies and prepares and revises safety instructions, guides, and taskers th are relevant to higher Army headquarters, Stes, contractor, and subordine installion employees. Investiges claims for Environmental Differential/Hazardous Differential Pay and prepares findings. Develops training merial for specific external installion problems. Conducts safety training for supervisors and employees in accordance with all applicable regulions. Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Help Conditions of employment

NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED.

If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a Nional Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position. This is an excepted service position th requires membership in a compible military assignment in the employing ste's Nional Guard, required prior to the effective de of placement. Selectee required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the Nional Guard must be eligible for immedie membership and employment in the Nional Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement. Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigion. May be required to successfully complete a trial period. Participion in direct deposit is mandory. This position is ineligible for inclusion in a bargaining unit. Indefinite appointments may be made permanent a ler de without competition. All job seekers required to limit their resumes to 2 pages in length when applying for job opportunity announcements (JOAs)

Qualificions NOTE:

Qualificions are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact des of each period of employment (from

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to

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) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualificion determinions cannot be made when resumes do not include the required informion, failure to provide this informion may result in disqualificion. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume.

NOTE:

All job seekers required to limit their resumes to 2 pages in length when applying for job opportunity announcements (JOAs)

NOTE :

This position is being advertised as an indefinite appointment and applicant selected may be released any time subject to a 30 day notice, and advised of his/her rights and benefits to which entitled. In the event a permanent employee is accepted for this indefinite position, there a change in their tenure from permanent to indefinite. Indefinite appointments may be made permanent a ler de without competition.

WHO CAN APPLY

GROUP I

• All qualified Male/Female Enlisted Member (E7/SFC-E9/SGM), Warrant Officer (W1/WO1
• W3/CW3), or Commissioned Officer (O1/2LT-O3/CPT).

, currently employed (permanent) in the Virginia Army Nional Guard Military Technician Program.

GROUP II

• All qualified Virginia Army Nional Guard Male/Female Enlisted Member (E7/SFC-E9/SGM), Warrant Officer (W1/WO1
• W3/CW3), or Commissioned Officer (O1/2LT-O3/CPT).

, regardless of employment stus (Traditional, Military Technician or AGR). To be considered as a Group II applicant, proof of appointment/enlistment in the Virginia Nional Guard must be tached if the appointment/enlistment occurred within 60 days prior to, or during, the advertisement period.

Military Grades :

Enlisted Member (E7/SFC-E9/SGM), Warrant Officer (W1/WO1

• W3/CW3), or Commissioned Officer (O1/2LT-O3/CPT).

GENERAL EXPERIENCE

: Applicant must have experience implementing plans, methods, and assessing risks to improve safety in the workplace and off-duty environments.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

: Applicant must have least 12 months of specialized experience, equivalent to least the GS-09 level, or equivalent pay band in other pay systems in the Federal government. This experience may also have been obtained in the prive sector but must demonstre th it is comparable to the GS grade indiced. This experience must include activities such as: Experience performing inspections of daily operions and workplaces. Experience conducting safety educion. Experience performing or participing in mishap investigions involving Army personnel, equipment, property, or operions. Experience reviewing contract proposals, stements of work, performance work stements, local purchase requests, and work requests for inclusion of safety criteria. Educion If using

Educion:

Educion 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 transcripts or other documention to support your Educional claims. To receive credit for Educion, you must provide documention of proof th you meet the Educion requirements for this position. Additional informion If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorizion Act of 1986 requires th you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( Register |

Selective Service System :

Selective Service System (sss.gov) ). 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 . Review our benefits 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. Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documention used to determine if you meet the qualificions listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you re yourself higher than is supported by your applicion package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion. Your qualificions evalued on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): 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 . Review our benefits 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 To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1.

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Contact Informion-your name and the best way to contact you. Relevant work experience-include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and describe how you meet the required qualificions of the job. Federal jobs should include series and grade. Educion, certificions or licensures. 2. Other supporting documents : SF50 for current Federal Technicians. 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 To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion/Occupional Questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupional Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12907922 A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Agency contact informion VaARNG Tech Jobs HRO Phone 000000000 ng.va.vaarng.list.ngva-guard-tech-jobs@Army.mil Address

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Richmond, VA 23297 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. 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 To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1.

Your resume showing:

Contact Informion-your name and the best way to contact you. Relevant work experience-include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and describe how you meet the required qualificions of the job. Federal jobs should include series and grade. Educion, certificions or licensures. 2. Other supporting documents : SF50 for current Federal Technicians. 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 To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion/Occupional Questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupional Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12907922 A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion VaARNG Tech Jobs HRO Phone 000000000 ng.va.vaarng.list.ngva-guard-tech-jobs@Army.mil Address

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Richmond, VA 23297 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. 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 Open & closing des 03/11/2026 to 03/25/2026 Salary $78,009 to

• $101,417 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Fort Pickett, VA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary
• Indefinite Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

VA-12907922-AR-26-212

Control number 860788400