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Open: September 17, 2026 — Closes: September 23, 2026
Summary
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), with 1 vacancy in San Diego, CA. This position is also announced under vacancy number NMFS-26-13057955-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.
Major Duties
As a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Plan, coordinate, and execute the organization's facilities, safety, and occupational health program, to analyze and advise on changes in policies and resources that affect program objectives. Review standards and codes, publications on work processes, and current industrial problems and make recommendations to senior leadership on required changes to standards and policies. Identify and ensure that environmental and occupational operations (including highly hazardous control activities) are documented, in place, monitored and controlled, such as Material Safety Data Sheet or Safety Data Sheet data. Lead inspections to ensure the effectiveness of occupational safety requirements in the work environment, and to assess the degree of compliance. Conduct facility safety inspections of reportable and non-reportable mishaps involving personal injury accidents, property damage, and cases of occupational illnesses or findings. Identify unsafe conditions, practices, or hazards. Report findings, assign risk assessment codes, recommend corrective actions, and conduct follow-up inspections. Collect data and research information for annual updates to the Environmental Health and Safety Action Plan, to ensure environmental compliance and reports are complete. Contribute to and communicate with Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) leadership regarding the Safety Action Plan. Collaborate with management on program changes or alternative courses of action on policy or procedural changes that may result in the modification of new and existing safety and occupational health management techniques, operations, activities and improvement on environmentally responsible operations. Advise management on more complex safety risks encountered and in risk assessments, analyze operating practices to minimize safety risk and incidents, and identify risk mitigation strategies. Submit and manage status of work orders on behalf of SWFSC. Facilitate meetings, review responses to data calls for accuracy and completeness, and report on the Facilities Working Group, Safety, Environmental, and Security Committee, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Manager. Brief new employees on emergency management procedures and develop, implement and conduct formal classroom training on compliance procedures, legal, regulatory, and procedural guidance. NOTE: The duties are at the full performance level of the ZA-3 the ZA-2 is the developmental leading to such performance. This position will be filled under the DOC Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). Under CAPS, positions are classified by career, pay plan, and pay band. The ZA-2 is equivalent to the GS-07/09. The ZA-3 is equivalent to the GS-11/12. The Full Performance Level (FPL) is the ZA-3.
