Safety and Occupational Health Manager Job in Washington, DC

Vacancy No. OAP-2025-305 Department Architect of the Capitol
Salary $142,488.00 to $185,234.00 Grade 14 to 14
Perm/Temp Permanent FT/PT Full-time
Open Date 7/2/2025 Close Date 7/18/2025
Job Link Apply Online Who may apply Public
Locations:
Washington, DC


Summary

The Office of Attending Physician (OAP), is in search of a Safety and Occupational Health Manager to serve in the fields of occupational health, environmental health, infectious disease prevention, food service sanitation, pest control and general administration. The responsibilities involve planning, developing, administering, evaluating and promoting programs and activities concerned with the elimination and prevention of environmental and occupational health hazards.

This job is open to

Clarification from the agency

See Requirements section of this announcement for information on who may apply.

Duties

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Performs administrative and technical supervisory functions for subordinates. Assigns duties and evaluates performance. Manages the organizational unit’s budget and workload. Develops performance requirements for subordinates and ensures a mutual understanding of the performance standards. Resolves complaints and grievances. Provides leadership to ensure support for equal employment opportunity (EEO) goals and requirements.

  • Supervises staff conducting inspections of food service facilities for preventing the occurrence or transmission of disease and to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.

  • Manages the activities of one Safety and Occupational Health Specialist, one to three Occupational Health Technicians and an administrative support position for the program. May also manage the activities of other employees to support the mission of the OAP.

    SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
  • Organizes and executes a comprehensive agency safety and health program dealing with a wide variety of high safety risk activities/constantly changing hazards.

  • Provides advice to the Attending Physician on occupational health and environmental health matters and offers guidance throughout the agency relative to complex program-related problems and interfaces with pertinent institutional and program offices.
  • With the OAP receiving accreditation from the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Facilities, the incumbent ensures that all internal policies and procedures are consistent with the Commission’s requirements.  In addition, for this accreditation, the incumbent functions as the Infectious Disease Control Officer for the OAP. 

    ON-SITE INSPECTIONS
  • Acts as technical authority on safe work environments and safe working conditions in major agency organizational components. Conducts, arranges, and/or manages comprehensive occupational, safety, health, and environmental on-site programs. 

  • Performs advanced studies of physical and biological hazards which may negatively impact employee occupational safety and health. Performs extensive studies of chronic occupational health hazards. Observes lead exposure on the Capitol Police firing range; levels of mold, bacteria, and other biological agents in the Capitol complex; presence of blood-borne pathogens; employee exposure to asbestos and radiation; and other similar situations. Designs plans for ameliorating these problems, builds consensus and support for solutions to these problems, and offers policies to eliminate the underlying causes of these problems.

  • Plans, develops, directs and evaluates comprehensive safety and occupational health surveillance and enforcement programs for the agency. This includes a highly diversified range of issues: toxic atmospheric contaminants; noise; heat and cold stresses; pesticides; indoor air quality; food sanitation and safety and worker health.

  • Manages a water quality program for the Capitol complex. Arranges for the collection of samples, laboratory analysis, and reviews of results. Coordinates with other federal agencies which have responsibilities for water quality and security.

  • Manages a program of medical surveillance for those agency employees who may be exposed to hazardous substances or conditions. 

  • Monitors the work of pest control contractors in food service to ensure that pests are controlled and pesticides are used in an environmentally sound manner. Serves as the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for the integrated pest management program at the Capitol complex.

    FORMULATION AND DISSEMINATION OF SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH POLICY

  • Offers extensive technical guidance and assistance on diverse and complex hazardous conditions in a variety of dispersed areas that require specialized safety approaches. Creates occupational health policy for the Office of Attending Physician. Performs research on policy problems, develops policy options, solicits and evaluates comments on policy alternatives, recommends policy choices, drafts policy statements and evaluates policy implementation. 

  • Designs information systems necessary for program management purposes and reports pertinent information to top management.

    RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM POLICY

  • Prepares occupational health policy for the Office of Attending Physician. Performs research on policy problems, establishes policy options, requests and assesses comments on policy alternatives, recommends policy choices, drafts policy statements and evaluates policy implementation.

    Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
  • You must be able to pass a drug test.
  • Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.
  • You must meet the definition of specialized experience.

“To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position, an individual must meet
one of the categories below:

  • A citizen of the United States;
  • A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
  • A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
  • A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
  • A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States.”

Qualifications

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications.

Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, an applicant's one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for successful job performance.

To qualify at the GS-13 level, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-12 level in the federal service. Examples of qualifying experience include the following types of tasks performed on a regular and recurring basis:

  • Managing safety or occupational health program elements; 
  • Planning, developing, organizing, administering, evaluating and coordinating a comprehensive environment and occupational health program; 
  • Performing risk assessments of hazardous processes, determining risk severity and making recommendations to minimize risk;
  • Communicating effectively to implement training, performing inspection and investigation, create reports and facilitate meetings; and
  • Evaluating health and safety trends, issues, protocols and accepted practices within large to moderately sized institutional environments preferred.

Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) ), or reputable infection control certifications (CIC, IP, CICP) certifications are preferred.

Education

In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements for this position, applicants must meet the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) for the 0018 series. 

Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from among the following (or closely related) disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology.

Additional information

Welcome Veterans. The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) gives veterans' preference rights in the legislative branch to certain veterans as applied by the Congressional Accountability Act. Veterans' preference is applied on this vacancy announcement. If you are a veteran and have been separated under honorable conditions, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility; SF-15, if applicable; and Department of Veterans Affairs documentation of disability, if applicable. For more information, please visit http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetguide.asp#6.

If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System. If you are exempt from registration under Selective Service Law, you must provide appropriate proof of exemption. Please visit the Selective Service System website for more information.

DRUG TESTING: The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a Drug Free Workplace. As part of the AOC’s suitability assessment, a candidate tentatively selected for a position who is not currently an AOC employee is required to submit to screening for illegal drug use. Satisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency. A candidate must test negative prior to being eligible for appointment into a position. We will schedule, provide and cover the cost for the drug test.

The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S. Capitol Police and satisfactory adjudication to be eligible for employment at the Architect of the Capitol.

The Architect of the Capitol is an E-VERIFY Participant. E-VERIFY is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment authorization in the United States. If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the DHS Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-VERIFY" electronic system. For more information on E-Verify, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm

The Architect of the Capitol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information and/or disability.

This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Moving expenses are not authorized.

Relocation expenses are not authorized.

Probationary Period - A newly appointed selectee is subject to the completion of a one-year trial/probationary period, regardless of whether or not a trial/probationary period has been completed previously with the Architect of the Capitol or another Federal agency.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies in any of the jurisdictions of the Architect of the Capitol.

All application materials become the property of the Architect of the Capitol.

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. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Review your resume and responses carefully. Your eligibility for consideration and qualifications for the position will be determined based upon a review of your detailed resume and your responses to job specific self-assessment questions. 

Your resume will be evaluated based on evidence of your ability to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for this position, possession of any specialized experience, and how well your background and experience relates to the self-assessment questions in the job announcement. The self-assessment questions relate to the following knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies:

Program Management

Inspections/Investigations

Communication

Compliance 

Your responses to the self-assessment questions serve as the basis for your initial rating. You will receive a numerical score based on your responses to these questions.  Next, your responses will be evaluated by a Human Resources Specialist and/or a subject matter expert against the information provided in your resume and optional cover letter. Your resume must support your answers to the self-assessment questions. Falsifying your background, education and/or experience is cause for non-selection or disqualification from further consideration.

Please note that a complete application is required for consideration. (Please review the “Required Documents” section of this job announcement to see what must be included in a complete application).


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Required Documents

The Architect of the Capitol's (AOC) job application process is designed to ensure you only provide information necessary to evaluate your qualifications and eligibility for the position vacancy.

To apply for this position, you only need to submit: a) your resume and b) answers to the online vacancy assessment questionnaire. The online questionnaire contains eligibility and screening questions and other relevant information. No additional documentation or attachments are required at the time of application.

Your resume should list your education, training and work experience including job titles, employment dates, duties and accomplishments.

Nothing further is required until it is requested by AOC’s Human Capital Management Division. If additional documentation is required for the position, you will be asked to provide it during the interview or selection process. At that time, you may be asked to submit documentation to support statements made in your resume.

For example, you may be asked to provide a copy of your diploma, college transcripts, or proof of Federal employment status. If the position requires licensure or certification, you will be asked to provide proof at the time of selection.

If Veterans’ preference is claimed, you will be asked to submit proof (DD-214, and, if claiming a 10-point preference, a SF-15 and the proof required by that form).

Failure to provide the required documents will end further consideration and/or result in the withdrawal of any tentative job offers.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

How to Apply

You MUST apply online. FORMS RECEIVED BY FAX, EMAIL OR U.S. POSTAL SERVICE DELIVERY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

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Agency contact information

Clarissa Anderson
Address
Architect of the Capitol
United States Capitol
Washington, District of Columbia 20515
United States

Next steps

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