What are the responsibilities and job description for the Safety and Occupational Health Manager (Leader) position at OLSR-OFFICE OF LABORATORY QUALITY AND SAFETY?
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Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify at the GS-14 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level, which must include the following experience: Responsible Official, alternate responsible official, or senior select-agent compliance lead, implementing Federal Select Agent Program regulations and advising staff on registrations, amendments, incident reporting, and agent transfers for maximum containment (BSL-4) laboratories; managing safety surveys, inventory/specimen accountability, personnel assessments, incident investigations/reporting, and developing SOPs, recordkeeping, and safety policies.
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.
Qualifications:
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify at the GS-14 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level, which must include the following experience: Responsible Official, alternate responsible official, or senior select-agent compliance lead, implementing Federal Select Agent Program regulations and advising staff on registrations, amendments, incident reporting, and agent transfers for maximum containment (BSL-4) laboratories; managing safety surveys, inventory/specimen accountability, personnel assessments, incident investigations/reporting, and developing SOPs, recordkeeping, and safety policies.
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.
Responsibilities:
As a Safety and Occupational Health Manager (Leader) you will:- Serve as the Responsible Official (RO), providing enterprise oversight to ensure compliance with the Federal Select Agent Program regulations
- Direct and oversee Alternate Responsible Officials (AROs) and sustain an inspection-ready compliance program through governance, monitoring, and corrective action management.
- Advise laboratory leadership and staff on select agent registrations, amendments, incident reporting, and agent transfers, ensuring accurate documentation and timely execution.
- Plan and complete required inspections, surveys, records reviews, inventories, and annual plan reviews, and ensure findings and corrective actions are closed within required timeframes.
- Lead incident preparedness and response, including investigations, required regulatory notifications, corrective and preventive actions, and post-event improvements.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders (e.g., physical security, occupational health, safety, and high-containment operations) to support compliant laboratory and vivarium operations.
- Ensure that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.
Salary : $133,007