NextGen Federal Systems is seeking a Occupational Safety Specialist to support our Safety and Occupational Health Initiatives for our CECOM program on Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Responsibilities
• Assist managers, supervisors, and the SOH Specialists in implementing the SOH Program.
• Provide a channel of communication between employees and management to assist management in providing a safe and healthful workplace.
• Assist the supervisor with reporting and logging hazards, near-misses, and accidents.
• Assist supervisor with the submission of trouble calls to correct identified hazards immediately, dependent upon risk.
• Conduct daily walk-thrus, scanning the work areas for hazards and non-compliance, and initiate appropriate actions to correct deficiencies.
• Be responsible for delivering SOH pass-ups/pass-downs (promotional awareness, messages etc.) to all employees within their work areas.
• Attend safety and health management and technical training as necessary to remain proficient in assigned responsibilities.
• If applicable recognize CECOM employees for performing their duties safely, going above and beyond to remove hazards, and/or reporting near misses and hazards.
• Provide input for corrective actions to supervisor, safety committee and SOH personnel.
• Accompany safety committee members (if applicable) along with a supervisor or work leader on monthly inspections of their work center.
• Provide feedback to the CECOM Directorate for Safety on work center safety hazards/issues.
• Assist CECOM SOH personnel on work center safety issues, inspections, and accident/near miss investigations
Required Qualifications
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated, relevant experience
• Experience working in security capacity with Army, Joint Staff, and/or DoD organizations
• Military experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, particularly Word and PowerPoint
• Self-motivated with strong oral and written communication, organizational skills, and attention to detail to operate in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Must have an active Secret level security clearance and TS/SCI eligibility
About NextGen:
NextGen Federal Systems is an innovative technology and professional services provider specializing in advanced software solutions and comprehensive mission and business support services. We work in close collaboration with our customers to truly understand their business and mission goals. Our approach is to design, build, implement, and manage solutions that measurably improve our client’s organizational performance. We have established and foster a corporate culture where we:
- Treat employees with fairness and respect regardless of their position, sexual identity, race, or tenure.
- Communicate the importance of our mission and our employees’ contributions to it, ensuring they understand how their job role contributes to the greater good.
- Openly promote and communicate our ideas for change and adaptability.
- Strive to achieve results as an organization.
- Hold employees accountable to their commitments and provide incentives that encourage positive and productive behaviors.
- Value the talents and contributions of our employees as the key factor for our success.
- Create an environment where people can engage at all levels.
- Encourage people to take risks and allow them to make mistakes.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
RefID: A01
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrated relevant experience
- Experience working in a security capacity with Army, Joint Staff, and/or Department of Defense organizations
- Military experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Word and PowerPoint
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Organizational skills and attention to detail
- Bachelor's degree
- Active Secret security clearance
- Eligibility for TS/SCI clearance
What We Do
NextGen is an award-winning IT solutions and services provider. NextGen is a fast-growing company that employs agile and mature processes in areas of innovation, research and development, program management, systems engineering, and technology commercialization. Current customers include the Department of Defense, Federal Government, and commercial companies. NextGen utilizes a mixed model consisting of Services and Solution Development in support of customer goals. Our core areas of expertise include Software Development, Research and Development, Enterprise IT Systems Engineering, and Cyber Security & Data Management. NextGen obtained ISO 9001 certification and achieved CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraisal. Recent and steady growth led to our recognition by INC 5000 as the 211th (2016), 440th (2017), 1096th (2018), 1703rd (2019), and 2437th (2020) fastest-growing company in the US and 19th fastest growing IT Services Company in the US. NextGen has offices near Aberdeen, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; Dayton, OH; O’Fallon, IL, and Morgantown, WV. We understand the paradigm shift of doing more with less; developing, operating, and supporting complex systems and missions while keeping pace with changing technologies; and providing high-quality working solutions to analysts and warfighters supporting the Federal Government. We aggressively manage internal costs to ensure competitive salaries for top talent while ensuring cost-effective delivery to our customers. As the demand for quality increases, NextGen is well-positioned to tackle the most intricate challenges facing the defense and intelligence communities today.
