SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER

SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER

Department: Department of the Army

Location(s): Helena, Montana

Salary Range: $89508 - $116362 Per Year

Job Summary: THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE NON-BARGAINING UNIT POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER, Position Description Number D2937000, and is part of the Montana Army National Guard, AASF. (A copy of the Position Description can be obtained from HRO upon request.) Selecting Official: LTC Rowland

Major Duties:

• Serves as the State, Territory, District of Columbia Safety and Occupational Health (SOHM) Manager in the maintenance of a comprehensive ground and explosives, safety program for the State. Manages and provides oversight for the State ARNG Safety and Occupational Health Management Systems (ASOHMS) within the broad framework of statutory public law, DOD, Army, and National Guard policy, goals, and objectives. Manages resource requirements for personnel, safety programs, contracting, and funding resources necessary to support program goals, objectives, and directives. Determines SOH requirements and implements plans, methods, and assess risks to improve safety in the workplace and off-duty environments. Reduces preventable mishaps in the preservation of ARNG personnel, equipment, facilities, and resources. Develops, implements, plans, directs, and controls a comprehensive SOH program involving a wide variety of industrial processes, shops, equipment, material, and machinery, some of which are unconventional and unique to the organization, highly hazardous and involve dangerous material. Develops the State SOH Plan to include applicability of fourteen Army SOH functional areas. Development of applicable local policy and procedures for State SOH programs. Manages, executes, monitors, and evaluates State functional Safety Programs for effective implementation. Conducts safety reviews for the Annual Safety Plan, Workplace Design and Engineering processes, construction facility reuse projects, Support Force Protection Planning, Emergency Operations Plans, and mishap reports for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. Reviews ASOHMS Implementation strategy, Explosives Safety Site Plan submissions, and risk assessments, and deviations to safety standards. Reviews explosives safety survey reports to identify Ammunition and Explosives safety and logistics programmatic findings, corrective actions, and systemic trends. Reviews Fire, Occupational Health, and Safety (FOHS) Functional Community 12 (FC12) training certifications. Reviews workplace safety hazard tracking logs, NGB safety assessment data, and unit SOPs to ensure safety and Risk Management are integrated and controls are established for identified hazards. Conducts and ensures safety mishap investigations comply with DoDI 6055.07 and 29 CFR 1904.39 guidance and ensure the notification, investigation, reporting, and recordkeeping of ARNG on-duty, off duty, non-duty and materiel deficiency safety mishaps. Ensures the regular inspection of facilities, workplaces, operations, explosives storage, and training ranges are conducted by qualified safety professionals. Develops documented reports of deficiencies and mitigation/abatement plans and metrics to measure program effectiveness. Conducts annual assessments of ground safety programs, radiation and laser safety, range safety, and explosive safety programs. Develops and implements applicable health protection and readiness programs. Establishes, trains, and advises personnel on the integration of Risk Management processes and assist leaders in implementation of installation SOH programs. Manages Commercial Off The Shelf system safety processes. Suspends, limits, or terminates operations where the potential for damage, exposure, and loss to munitions of explosives concern, laser operations, or radioactive sources can occur. Develops and implements mishap prevention, countermeasures, and hazard abatement procedures. Develops safety and health promotion programs consisting of safety awards, seasonal safety, employee workplace safety awareness, media, and social communication tools. Cultivates a robust safety culture through training, promotion, awards, and program advocacy. Ensures Safety and Occupational Health processes support general public health efforts for all ARNG personnel and seeks to maximize worker productivity through health promotion efforts. Communicates and distribution statistics, trends, best practices, and lessons learned. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Military Grades: Warrant CW2 - CW5; Officer O1 - O3 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Must have performed, as a team member, specified survey work to identify and evaluate hazardous and nonhazardous work and conditions. Applied conventional survey techniques to complete relatively uncomplicated evaluations. Made recommendations concerning corrective procedures where the potential for injury or property damage exists or current procedures do not achieve the desired results or modify/cancel the corrective procedures are no longer appropriate for situations encountered. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 1 year equivalent to at least next lower grade level experience, education, or training performing industrial construction standards, methods, practices, techniques, materials, equipment, and utility systems sufficient to determine compliance with building safety standards and devise hazard control measures applicable to airport ground facilities and supporting industrial shops. Knowledge of psychological and physiological factors sufficient to develop a ground aviation safety education activity for supervisors and employees, to motivate maintenance personnel to apply safe working practices and to persuade supervisors to accept changes or modifications where required to achieve a safe working environment. Performed safety and occupational health principles, practices, procedures and standards applicable to a full range of complex safety and occupational health management responsibilities at a military aviation installation and requiring the planning, organizing, directing, operating and evaluation of a safety and occupational health program related to ground aviation, industrial and marine operations. Performed aviation maintenance work processes and support equipment, airport ground operations, facilities and runway maintenance techniques, and industrial work processes. Experience in managing the function of work to be performed. Experience that includes leading, directing and assigning work of personnel. ***(MUST address your experiences in detail on resume as they relate to these minimum requirements and specialized experiences, to be considered for this position)***

How to Apply: To apply for this position, you must complete the online application/Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupational Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12857677 A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process. You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.

Application Deadline: 2026-01-13