Safety Consultant

Job Description

Summary

Safety Consultant for Office of Facilities and Property Management (OFPM). Develops strategy to ensure NIST Environmental Health & Safety compliance. Provides expert advice to management on occupational health regulations. Leads accident investigations, reviews safety plans, and conducts workplace inspections. Manages construction permits, drinking water programs, and agency training.

Duties

In this position, you will: Lead complex, high-hazard inspections across diverse workplaces to evaluate technically difficult operations and enforce compliance. Serve as technical authority providing line managers and division safety personnel with expert hazard recognition and abatement options. Evaluate major construction safety plans and job hazard analyses (JHAs) to ensure strict adherence to Federal, State, and agency protocols. Analyze agency-wide safety data to identify systemic trends, isolate program gaps, and engineer corrective strategic initiatives. Design and executed safety training curricula to systematically elevate staff occupational safety and health (OSH) competencies. Advise executive leadership on systemic improvements to optimize organizational OSH awareness and modernize safety systems. Direct specialized OSH programs and managed high-value safety contracts to ensure full regulatory and operational compliance.

Qualifications

Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 (ZA-II at NIST) level. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience in reviewing and applying occupational safety and health (OSH) federal regulations, agency policies, and workplace practices as they apply to maintenance/operations and construction activities; to include managing workplace injury process, hazardous materials databases, and reviewing safety plans. Experience conducting workplace OSH investigations, annual inspections, and communicating the information to management. Experience coordinating and developing safety training. In addition to the required specialized experience; all applicants must have a valid U.S. drivers license. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. If requesting reconsideration of your qualification determination, please refer to the following site: Applicant Reconsideration