Safety and Occupational Health Manager

Bureau of Land Management • Phoenix, AZ

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

You will serve as a Safety and Occupational Health Manager with BLM, Headquarters, Directorate of Business Management and Administration, Division of Safety, Occupational Health and Emergency Management. Extended work hours are often required in emergencies. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 5 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit participation required.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
• You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
• As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or a 2 year trial period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
• All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 10/07/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
• Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.
• To qualify for this position at the GS-14 grade level:
• For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience .
• For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected.
• For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.
• Administering a safety and occupational health program ensuring that safety and health policies, procedures and practices are sufficient to eliminate or control potential hazards;
• Developing, communicating, and implementing an organizational wide safety and occupational health strategy to prevent accidents, injuries, and resource loss;
• Conducting surveys, inspections, and audits of facilities, operations, equipment, and programs to determine adequacy to protect the safety of workers, public, environment, and facilities;
• Preparing clear, concise, grammatically, and factually correct reports that include recommended improvements, findings, root cause analysis, potential hazards, and potential impact to the workplace;
• Providing training, guidance and awareness to supervisors and employees to reduce risk or injury.
• You must include hours per week worked.

Nice To Haves

• All DOI employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions.
• Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, DOI Ethics Prohibitions | U.S. Department of the Interior .

Responsibilities

• Conduct safety program management compliance reviews of Bureau-wide functional areas.
• Coordinate and facilitate serious accident investigations across the Bureau nationwide.
• Serve as the safety program management technical support and assistance for the entire Bureau.
• Provide support to other related Bureau programs, i.e., Emergency Management and Industrial Hygiene.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and/or provide safety program training for employees, supervisors, managers and safety program management personnel.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Learn more about federal benefits .
• Review our benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed