### JOB SUMMARY:
Civilian employees serve a vital role in supporting the Army mission. They provide the skills that are not readily available in the military, but crucial to support military operations. The Army integrates the talents and skills of its military and civilian members to form a Total Army.
**About the Position:** This position will be filled on a Permanent basis. Initial overseas tour is for one (1) year with possible extensions up to five (5).
**Who May Apply:** U.S. Citizens
### TRAVEL REQUIRED
* 50% or Greater
* Business travel up to 50% of the time.
### RELOCATION AUTHORIZED
* Yes
* Moving expenses will be paid in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR).
### KEY REQUIREMENTS
* Must be able to satisfy the requirements of the 26JUL12 DODI 1400.25 V1230:
* Visit http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/140025v1230.pdf
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### DUTIES:
As a Safety & Occupational Health Specialist you will be responsible for the following:
* Evaluate a wide variety of potentially hazardous operations
* Provide occupational health guidance to supervisors
* Accident prevention control
* Recommend corrective action in discrepancies
* Prepares directives and regulations governing activities and the need for additional regulations
* Participate in safety meetings with top management
* Conduct safety inspections on Commands worksite
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### QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
This is a Career Program (CP) #12 position, applicants must possess the CP-12 Safety and Occupational Health Professional Certificate (awarded upon completion of the ACTEDS Skill Level I requirements for GS-0018s) and Explosives Safety Certificate (Level I) or obtain these certificates within 12 months of hire.
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience.
Experience required:
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as experience that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled such as: planning, scheduling, and coordinating the safety and health inspection program; use of hazardous materials; and prepare safety policies, procedures and guidelines.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency (knowledge, skills, abilities) in the following areas:
* Knowledge of Safety & Occupational Health Management
* Knowledge of Safety & Occupational Health Guidelines
* Skill in Administering Safety & Occupational Health Programs
* Skill in Applying Safety & Occupational Health Policies/Procedures
* Ability to Evaluate Safety & Occupational Health Problems
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
**Other Requirements:** Click here for expanded definitions.
* Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
* You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
* One year trial/probationary period may be required.
* Direct Deposit of Pay is Required.
* May require shift work and/or work on rotating shifts to provide coverage on evenings, weekends, holidays and in other situations.
* Immunization screening is required.
* Position may require employee to wear a uniform and/or protective clothing.
* This position has been designated as non-critical sensitive as defined in DoD 5200.2-R, and requires you to possess, or obtain and maintain for the duration of employment, a Secret security clearance.
* This position is designated as Emergency Essential
* This position requires you to satisfactorily complete an overseas deployment physical.
* This position requires you to possess/obtain & maintain a valid U.S. Passport and driver's license.
* This position requires you to travel within and potentially outside of country.
* This position requires you to work overtime, including 12-18 hour workdays.
* This position requires you to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 23 March 2006.
### HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:
Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.
**Basis for Rating**: Qualified candidates will be assigned to one of three quality categories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified and Qualified. Veteran preference eligibles are listed ahead of non-preference eligibles within each quality category.
* Best Qualified. Candidates in this category possess exceptional skills and experience to exceed well above the minimum requirements for the announced position.
* Highly Qualified. Candidates in this category possess good skills and experience above the minimum requirements for the announced position.
* Qualified. Candidates in this category meet the minimum experience requirements for the announced position.
**Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP).** If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority. See Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) for more information. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website.
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### BENEFITS:
**The Department of Defense offers an excellent benefits program.**In addition to your take-home pay, your comprehensive compensation/benefits package will include most of the benefits described inthe USAJOBS Resource Center.
Foreign differentials may be authorized while TCS (Temporary change in station) to downrange locations, if applicable. For more information on Foreign Allowances please visit the Department of State website:http://aoprals.state.gov/Web920/location.asp?menu_id=95.
### OTHER INFORMATION:
* Initial appointment is 12months with the possibility of extensions.
* Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
* U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement.
* Locality pay does not apply in the overseas area.
* In the overseas areas, access for civilian employees and their families to military medical and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis only. Medical care may be provided by host nation providers. The availability and level of care at host nation medical facilities will vary by location. Movement overseas may require you to initiate a change in your health benefits plan to ensure coverage.
* Pay retention may be offered to successful applicants for positions at overseas locations. For this provision to apply to employees already overseas, the selected individual would have to require a permanent change of station move and would have to be selected as a result of a recruitment effort that had been extended outside of the overseas command involved.
* Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
* Government housing is provided.
* Temporary storage of household goods costs will be paid for 1 year assignments
* Statutory return rights are granted for Department of Army (DA) employees.
* Locality rates of pay in Continental United States (CONUS) will not be used for pay setting when transferred to overseas area.
* This position is Emergency Essential. You may be required as a condition of employment to take the series of anthrax vaccine immunizations to include annual boosters. May include other immunizations that may be required for this position/for a position you may fill as an emergency essential alternate. Failure to take immunizations may lead to your removal from position or separation from Federal service. Vacancy will be subject to on-call and irregular work hours. Selection for assignment to this position requires passing an appropriate physical examination for overseas duty. Selection for assignment to this position will require annual physical examinations.
* Position is considered essential to support DAs mobilization and wartime mission during periods of increasing tension or mobilization. Position is considered emergency essential because (1) No qualified and immediate replacement exists; (2) having it vacant would/impair effective operation of essential military support system/adversely impact combat mission of deployed forces. Failure to remain in your position may result in separation for the efficiency of the Federal Service, (Ch 75 Title 5 USC; FPM Ch. 752).
* NOTE: Key and essential positions are not to be filled by persons with military recall status (one who is in status of a Ready Reserve, Standby Reserve, or is military retiree subject to recall to active duty).
* This tour is unaccompanied.
* This is a Career Program (CP) #12 position
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### HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the **Required Documents** section below.
The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) onThursday, March 31, 2016 to receive consideration.
* To begin, click Apply Online to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire.
* Click the Submit My Answers button to submit your application package.
* It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date.
* To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, select the Application Status link and then select the more information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
* To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click Update Application in the vacancy announcement. **You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete**.
* It is your responsibility to verify that information entered, uploaded, or faxed (i.e., resume) is complete, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Faxed documents must be completely transmitted by 11:59p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the closing date of the announcement.
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The Department of the Army provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the servicing civilian personnel unit. Your requests for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
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### REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:
The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in theApplicant Checklist (External).
As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. **If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.**
**Your resume**:
* Your resume may be submitted in any format.
* If you submit more than one copy of your resume, only the most recent version will be reviewed. The latest timestamp will be used to determine which version of your resume is "most recent." It is your responsibility to check the status and timestamp of all documents you submit as part of your application.
* If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
* For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application will be marked as incomplete and you will not receive consideration for this position.
If you are unable to apply online or unable to upload your supporting documents follow the directions located at:Faxing Applications and Documents The Vacancy ID is1655801. You will need the questionnaire,View Occupational Questionnaire, to complete your faxed application
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**NOTE:** Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
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### AGENCY CONTACT INFO:
Central Resume Processing Center
Phone: (000)000-0000
Email: USARMY.APG.CHRA-NE.MBX.APPLICANTHELP@MAIL.MIL
Agency Information:
DA NCR Rock Island
Rock Island Arsenal
Civilian Personnel Advisory Center
1 Rock Island Arsenal Bldg 104 1st Floor
Rock Island, IL
61299-5000
### WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT:
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. Your application package will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position.
If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration.
The documents you submit must support your responses to the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or "incomplete application" and you will not receive further consideration for this job.
Please send questions regarding the status of your application, eligibility or qualifications determination to the agency contact information, listed above.
*Job Title:* Safety & Occupational Health Specialist
*Department:* Department of the Army
*Agency:* U.S. Army Sustainment Command
*Control Number:* 433008200
*Job Announcement Number:* NCBG162553551655801D