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Supervisory Railroad Safety Specialist (Hazmat)

Supervisory Railroad Safety Specialist (Hazmat)

Federal Railroad Administration

Cambridge, MA

$127K/yr

Other

Posted 6 days ago

New

Job description

 The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) administers and enforces Federal safety and health laws and regulations that apply to the railroad industry and its ancillary components. The of this position serves as the Deputy Staff Director for the Office of Railroad Safety (RRS) Hazardous Materials (HIM) Division. The Office of Safety promotes and regulates safety throughout the Nation's railroad industry.

Qualifications:

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the specialized experience qualifications. 

To be qualified for a Railroad Safety Inspector, the Qualifications Standards states you MUST have demonstrated knowledge in the following areas:

  • Railroad industry, including economic and operating considerations and equipment.
  • General safety and health principles and practices applicabe to the railroad industry.
  • Railroad accident investigation tehcniques.
  • Skill in written and oral communication.
  • Practical knowledge of the typical reactions of different hazardous commodities to various environmental conditions and of safe procedures for containing or controlling fires, leaks, or explosions of these materials.
  • Knowledge of the construction, testing, and retesting of containers used to ship hazardous materials by rail; AND
  • Knowledge of Federal regulations and standards governing the shipment of hazardous materials by rail, including containerization, loading, handling, documentation, and placarding.

To qualify for the Grade 14, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-13, it must include:

  • Experience applying principles, procedures, regulations/policies to manage a program related to the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail.
  • Experience persuading others, building consensus, and gaining cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals to improve the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail.
  • Experience leading, motivating, supervising and/or managing a workforce to promote a uniform understanding and accomplish organizational goals.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

  1. Hazardous Materials- Knowledge of hazardous materials and waste and their uses, interactions, dangers, production, handling, storge, and disposal.
  2. Leadership- Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadershp styles to a variety of situations.
  3. Planning and Evaluating- Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitor progress and evaluates outcomes.
  4. Oral Communication- Expresses information (for example, ideas, or facts) to individuals or groups efffectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive). 

For all types of consideration, 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.
For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link:  https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
All applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education:Employment Type: OTHER

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