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USAJOBS · 2 weeks ago

Chief, Office of Safety and Environmental Health (SEH)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$169K/yr - $197K/yr

1+ years exp

USAJOBS is seeking a Chief for the Office of Safety and Environmental Health (SEH) within the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, located in Washington, DC. The role involves providing leadership and management of a comprehensive safety program across various Coast Guard operations, ensuring alignment with missions and risk reduction.

ConsultingGovernmentHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyInternetStaffing Agency

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

You will serve as the Coast Guard Chief of Safety and Environmental Health (SEH) and provide leadership, direction and management of a comprehensive Coast Guard-wide aviation, afloat, ashore, industrial activity, and off-duty safety program worldwide

You will be responsible for conceiving, formulating, promulgating and directing a progressive program, and ensure the program is effectively and efficiently administered and aligned with Coast Guard missions

Directing, developing, reviewing and approving all Coast Guard operational and support function safety programs that applies a holistic, enterprise-wide perspective on reducing risks to members and the organization

Representing the agency and headquarters staff in sensitive, technical and controversial negotiations with subordinate levels of the organization, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations of national and international stature, and military organizations of foreign nations

Directing preparations for Coast Guard participation in Joint Service Safety Council (JSSC) conferences, a semiannual meeting of the senior safety executives of the military services

Proposing and sponsoring research and development projects that develop new risk management tools and expanding and deeply integrating risk management principles and human factors into all operational and mission support functions

Generating new service-wide operational and mission support safety and occupational/environmental health management and administrative principles, developing new original concepts for evaluating risks and determining appropriate risk controls for all operational and mission support missions and functions, and evaluating Coast Guard-wide programs and projects of national and global importance

Qualification

Safety ManagementOccupational HealthRisk ManagementSafety Policy DevelopmentMishap AnalysisTrainingCommunicationNegotiation

Required

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Must be registered or exempt from the Selective Service

A one-year probationary period may be required

To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement

This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified

Transcripts must be submitted with your application package

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S

You MUST meet the following requirements: 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

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

To qualify at the GS-15 grade level, your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 grade level in the federal sector

Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level

All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or related applicable assessment) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position

You must submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) from an accredited institution

Once selected & prior to appointment, applicants must provide an official college transcript

If you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration

Transcripts should be legible and detailed, showing course number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours, and grade earned

If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken

To receive this credit, you must submit evidence of equivalency as provided by a credentialling evaluation service

It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application

Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered