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Regulatory Specialist
Mine Safety and Health Administration · Posted 94 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $71K – $133K Apply by Jul 14, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ
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This position is located with Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Office of Standards, Regulations and Variances. MSHA works to prevent death, illness and injury from mining; promote safe and healthful workplaces for U.S. miners. MSHA carries out the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) as amended by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006.
What You'll Do
- →This is a career ladder progression position; the incumbent will serve in a developmental capacity, wherein the work is less complex in nature and the supervisor or a senior level employee provides specific instruction and guidance.
- →For the GS-09 level: Drafts regulations or assists senior regulatory specialists in drafting regulations pertaining to MSHA programs.
- →Responsible for ensuring promulgated regulations reflect MSHA policies and are consistent with Federal law, executive orders, and guidance, including the Mine Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, EO 12866, and the Federal Register Document Drafting Handbook.
- →Responsible for reviewing and analyzing comments received on proposed occupational health and safety regulations and determining significant issues raised in written comments.
- →Support senior regulatory specialists in drafting responses to received comments.
- →Responsible for determining if proposed regulations or standards require regulatory impact and regulatory flexibility analyses.
- →Where required, supports economists in the preparation of such analyses.
- →Assists technical specialists in using the results of these analyses to modify draft standards, where warranted.
- →Participates in reviews and analyses of existing Agency regulations to identify those which may need revision in view of changing Agency requirements or policies or actions taken by other regulatory agencies and provides this information to the Chief of the Regulatory Development Division.
- →Manages and drafts correspondences to the Office of the Solicitor, other MSHA program areas, and members of the regulated community.
- →For the GS-11 level: Drafts the complex or sensitive regulations pertaining to MSHA programs.
- →Responsible for ensuring promulgated regulations reflect MSHA policies and are consistent with Federal law, EOs, and guidance, including the Mine Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Federal Register Document Drafting Handbook.
- →Responsible for reviewing and analyzing comments received on proposed occupational health and safety regulations and determining, in conjunction with technical program personnel, management, and the Office of the Solicitor, whether the issues raised in written comments have sufficient merit to warrant changes in the proposed regulation.
- →Drafts responses to substantial comments and explains MSHA position on those topics.
Requirements
- ✓Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
- ✓If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position.
- ✓Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 9cc51850-69c2-4957-9cbf-200bc78853a4
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