HR-96 (12/19)

Posting #: 2022-079 Issue Date: 3/21/22 Closing Date: TBD

Title: Assistant Commissioner (Unclassified
Appointment)

Range/Title Code: M98/99985 Salary: $155,250

Unit Scope: Statewide Public/Private

Location: Division of Public
Safety and Occupational Safety
and Health, Trenton

Workweek: NL # Vacancies: 1

Job Description

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many benefits to employees to acknowledge and value
their contribution. Statewide benefits include health insurance, pension, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)/Health Savings
Accounts (HSA), life insurance, deferred compensation and more. The DOL also provides tuition reimbursement (after nine months
of employment), a higher education program, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Temporary Expanded PSLF
(TEPSLF) Programs, and employee training. The DOL also provides options for participation in the Telework, Alternate Workweek
or Flextime Programs pursuant to the Department’s policy.

Under the direction of the Chief of Staff, NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Assistant Commissioner of
the Division of Public Safety and Occupational Safety and Health (PSOSH) is responsible to enforce the following laws and
regulations including, but not limited to: Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Refrigeration; Asbestos Control & Licensing; Crane
Operator Licensing; PEOSH; Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act; Mine Safety Act; Explosives Act; Pits and Quarries; and the
Fireworks Act. In addition, the Assistant Commissioner is responsible for the goals outlined in the Consultation Annual
Performance Plan (CAPP).

Duties of the Assistant Commissioner include, but are not limited to:

Oversees the development of the Division of PSOSH's plans to ensure existing and new legislatively mandated programs and
functions are accomplished by using effective and cost-efficient strategies. Ensures that PSOSH plans are implemented in a
timely manner and consistent with PSOSH, Departmental, and legislative requirements. Ensures that implemented plans are
reviewed, monitored and function in a cost effective and efficient manner as intended.

Ensures laws enforced are relevant to the times. Makes recommendations for changes or amendments as needed.

Analyzes state and federal data of fatalities/injuries. Reviews more complex and high-level Orders to Comply involving difficult
cases, fatalities, and matters of political sensitivity. Attends the more complex and high-level hearings involving difficult cases,
fatalities, and/or matters of political sensitivity.

Direct the operations of the PSOSH to meet statutory mandates and federal contract and grant agreements. Ensure that managers
and supervisors have established goals for staff, including but not limited to federal OSHA and MSHA contract and other
program requirements. Ensure that all rules and policy directives are disseminated to managers and staff as needed within the
established time frames. Complete all PEOSH State Plan related activities within established time frames.

Does other related duties as required.

Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/Licenses)

THIS APPOINTMENT IS SUBJECT TO CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION APPROVAL.

EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s degree. A degree in the field of
occupational safety and health is preferred.

EXPERIENCE: A minimum of eight (8) years of supervisory/managerial experience some of which must include the
administration of a comprehensive safety and/or workplace standards and enforcement program. Five (5) years shall have
been in a managerial capacity.

Demonstrated managerial skills, including interpersonal skills, decision making, problem analysis and creative thinking,
administrative judgment, delegation, managerial, or financial control, interdepartmental cooperation/liaison, development
of subordinates and organizational awareness are required.

RESUME NOTE: Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other
supporting documents. Applicants who possess a degree from a college or university outside the United States must provide an
evaluation of the transcripts from a recognized evaluation service at the time of submission. Failure to do so may result in your
ineligibility.

LICENSE: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather
than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

TO APPLY for this Position
If you qualify and would like to be considered, submit a letter of interest and your resume (including daytime phone
number and email address) to the person and email address listed below. You must submit your response by the closing date
shown above and include the Posting number.

EMAIL:
Human Capital Strategies
Recruitment Unit
LWDJobPostings@dol.nj.gov

*Subject line must specify complete job posting number

This is not a promotional announcement for a Civil Service Examination.
This posting may result in personnel actions which will require final approval by the Department of Labor and Workforce
Development
and the Civil Service Commission in accordance with Civil Service Commission rules and regulations.

Job Posting Authorized by Tennille R. McCoy, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Human Capital Strategies

• Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that may include fingerprinting.
• Any appointments made from postings which involve movement between unit scopes, may result in a forfeiture of rights to

any promotional list in a former
unit scope.

• As of September 2010, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-7, the “New Jersey First Act,” all new employees must reside in

the State of New Jersey, unless exempted under the law. If you do not live in New Jersey, you have one year after you begin
employment to relocate your residence to New Jersey, or to secure an exemption.

• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States according to the Department of Homeland

Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations. NJDOL does not provide sponsorship or accept
student OPT/CPT programs, F1 or H1B work authorization visas.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

In accordance with the Uniform Ethics Code adopted by the NJ State Ethics Commission and the State Policy
Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(NJ DOL) requires the disclosure of all relatives, consensual personal relationships, and cohabitants. No NJ DOL
employee may supervise or exercise any authority with regard to personnel actions involving their relative, anyone
with whom there is a consensual personal relationship, or anyone with whom they cohabit.

Relative means an individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner1 or the individual or spouse’s/domestic
partner’s/civil union partner’s parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent,
grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother or half-sister,
whether the relative is related to the individual or the individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner by
blood, marriage or adoption.

Consensual personal relationship means marriage, engagement, dating or other ongoing romantic or sexual
relationships.

Cohabitant means non-related persons who share a household under circumstances where there is financial
interdependence.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development requires the disclosure of all relatives and
consensual personal relationships to be promptly reported directly to the Division of Human Capital Strategies
(HCS) - Director’s Office. Confidentiality shall be maintained to the extent possible and practicable. This
information may be shared with NJ DOL’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office and/or the NJ DOL Ethics
Office as deemed necessary. Upon receiving notice of the relationship, HCS may address any situation as necessary
in consultation with the EEO Office and/or the Ethics Officer. This may include, but is not limited to, the changing
of reporting relationships or transferring any of the employees involved. Failure to provide notification to HCS may
result in discipline up to and including termination and the denial of legal representation and indemnification by the
State in the event that a lawsuit is filed having a connection with a personal relationship. Employees are under a
continuing obligation to promptly report personal relationships that develop during the course of their employment.

I DO NOT have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

I DO have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New
Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development identified as follows:

Name Relationship Division and Work Location

Do you need more space for disclosure? Yes No If YES, continue writing on the back of this form.

I certify that the information on this form to the best of my knowledge and belief is true, complete and accurate. I
understand that any misleading or incorrect information, willful misstatement, or omission of a material fact, may
be just cause for disciplinary action up to and including termination. I understand my obligation to promptly report
personal relationships that develop during the course of my employment.

1 Domestic Partner as defined in NJSA 26:8A-1 et. seq. and Civil Union status as defined in NJSA 37:1-28 et. seq.