Trade Safety Advocate

• You will serve directly as a Lifting and Handling consultant for various management levels on safety related regulatory requirements shipyard processes practices and procedures governing industrial work.
• You will identify and evaluate a variety of hazards that may affect approximately 900 personnel in the Lifting and Handling Department as well as personnel who work adjacent to or participate in associated weight handling work.
• You will serve as the lead safety expert in various Lifting and Handling processes practices procedures and policies.
• You will collect and analyze various forms of data in order to evaluate and determine program effectiveness set program goals develop corrective actions and use data to advise managers on current and trending safety issues identified.
• You will conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections in buildings dry docks aboard ships cranes and other industrial support equipment around piers and in various facilities
• You will provide mentoring assistance and direction to department personnel as well as production shop safety program personnel to ensure prevention of injuries.
• You will provide guidance and training as needed to shop mechanics supervisors and senior managers.
• You will apply methods techniques and abatements to control or eliminate unsafe practices or conditions.
• You will brief customers and senior managers on program and project status updates anticipated findings and corrective actions related to the departments safety program activities goals performance and health during and after audits.
• You will provide mishap investigations and advise investigation boards convened to ascertain causal factors precipitating fatalities serious injuries or substantial property damage.
• You will apply investigative techniques appropriate safety standards and sound practices necessary to conduct a comprehensive report that fully and accurately documents final conclusions.
• You will manage Mishap Safety Reports (MSR) submitted for OSHA recordable injury reporting and Employees Compensation and Management Portal (ECOMP) for employee occupational injury and illness claims.
• You will ensure proper adherence to Personal Identification Information (PII) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to ensure employee information remains protected and kept confidential.
• You will review Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) controls for incorporation into work procedures and operations where the potential for injury health impairment or property and material damage exists.
• You will prepare or provide guidance in reports listing findings with recommendations to correct unsafe and unhealthful acts conditions or procedures which may have caused injury impairment or property and material damage.
• You will act as the Lifting and Handling Environmental Coordinator ensuring compliance and awareness is sustained to maintain local and federal requirements and ensure proper waste disposal environmental policies are met.
• You will act as the Lock-Out-Tags-Plus Coordinator for hazardous energy control.
• You will review blueprints fall protection plans job hazard analysis (JHA) drawings risk mitigations hazardous energy control procedures and other technical documents to identify and evaluate OSH requirements.
• You will research gather and analyze information to prepare administrative correspondence audit response and management reports related to safety performance.

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities visit
• Generally current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD) the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets gloves coveralls glasses goggles respirators and safety shoes when required.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes dust heat ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to work in confined spaces.
• Performance of work frequently requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as walking standing bending climbing of stairs and ladders crouching reaching and lifting of moderately weighted items.
• You will be required to climb ladders and scaffolding.
• You will be required to work onboard ships.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: analyzing and evaluating safety related regulatory requirements processes and procedures governing industrial work to evaluate and determine program effectiveness.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: refers to paid and unpaid experience including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. professional philanthropic religious spiritual community student social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies knowledge and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.