Supervisory Industrial Hygienist (Assistant Area Director)

This position is with the U. S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Dallas Region. It is in the Dallas Area Office.

• Selectee will be expected to report to the Dallas Area office; this is not a remote position.
• This position is outside the bargaining unit.

• Serves as Supervisor to a multi-disciplinary group of Industrial Hygienists, Safety and Occupational Health Specialists, and Safety Engineers. Identifies, distributes and balances workload and tasks.
• Provides and signs written performance appraisals based on daily observation of work. Approves the use of annual, sick, and/or credit leave of short duration.
• Communicates assignments and applicable time frames to team members.
• Conducts on-the-job assessments of workload progress, productivity, and quality to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Makes recommendations on promotions, reassignments, awards, training, and other career development opportunities.
• Assists in the formulation of new or revised draft performance standards.
• Reviews case files to ensure proper application of standards and proposed penalties as well as reasonable abatement dates and documentation that is legally sufficient and consistent with OSHA policies and directives.
• Monitors progress of the group toward accomplishment of the program plan, recommending deviations to the plan as required.
• Serves as a witness before judicial hearing and trials, including criminal investigations, providing technical expertise in occupational safety.
• Represents OSHA at meetings of employer or labor organizations, trade associations and other groups interested in safety and health.
• Ensures that OSHA's Strategic Plan, mission, and vision are communicated and integrated into the goals, objectives, work plan, and customer service.
• Reviews, comments and makes recommendations on current OSHA standards, development of new standards and operational procedures which affect the compliance program.
• Leads inspections/investigations involving difficult and complex cases involving high risk operations, imminent danger, non-existent or inadequate standards where use of the general duty clause would be required, catastrophes and discrimination complaints.
• Recommends approval of completed case files by evaluating and determining appropriate actions.
• Provides technical assistance to employers, employees and the general public concerning technical interpretations of the OSH Act of 1970.

The Industrial Hygienist Series has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• A bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related science; or
• A bachelor's degree in a branch of engineering, physical science, or life science that included 12 semester hours in chemistry, including organic chemistry, and 18 additional semester hours of courses in any combination of chemistry, physics, engineering, health physics, environmental health, biostatistics, biology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, or industrial hygiene; or
• Certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (external link) (ABIH).

Evaluation of Education: All science or engineering courses offered in fulfillment of the above requirements must be acceptable for credit toward the completion of a standard 4-year professional curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in science or engineering at an accredited college or university.You must meet the "Individual Occupational Requirements" listed above and the "Specialized Experience" to qualify for Supervisory Industrial Hygienist (Assistant Area Director), as described below.

In addition to meeting the individual occupational requirement, applicants must have at least 52 weeks specialized experience at the next lower level in the normal career progression of the position being filled. When compared to Federal experience, this experience must be equivalent to at least the next lower grade level of GS-12. This experience may have been gained either in the Federal or Private sectors. Resumes should reflect the majority but is not limited to the following specialized experience listed below:

• Conducting complex occupational safety and health inspections.
• Providing technical advice, guidance, or training training to employers, employees, labor representatives, or other interested parties regarding safe/healthful working conditions.
• Leading teams of occupational safety and health professionals in the investigation and/or documentation of unsafe and/or unhealthful working conditions.
• Identifying and documenting unsafe or unhealthful working conditions, securing hazard abatement, and conducting opening/closing conferences or informal settlement conferences.

Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.