Jerome Yoon has been with USDA’s Meals Security and Inspection Service for simply over one yr, serving as department chief for the Workplace of Administration’s (OM) Security & Bodily Safety Department (SPSB). On this position, Yoon supervises the Bodily Safety Workforce and the Security Workforce, delivering technical experience on safety-related points to all workers.
The Bodily Safety Workforce points and manages LincPass badges that grant FSIS workers entry to company amenities and laptops. The crew additionally completes safety assessments of company buildings, together with doorways, home windows and safety techniques, and ensures they meet or exceed FSIS necessities. The Security Workforce helps guarantee worker well being and security by managing private protecting gear (PPE) — face masks, face shields, cut-resistant gloves, exhausting hats and lab coats — for FSIS area workers. This crew additionally offers their technical experience to the Workplace of Area Operations (OFO) and follows up if an worker is injured or experiences hazards on the job. Per Yoon, “Employee security is paramount. FSIS workers should be capable to give attention to their mission with out having to fret about their security.”
Yoon joined the company in January 2022, and rapidly carried out biweekly one-on-one conferences with all members of his crew. He believes it’s his job to make sure his workers has all the pieces they have to be profitable of their roles, and these conferences are crucial to his offering help wherever it’s wanted. “I’m a giant believer in servant management, the place I work for my workers to make sure their wants are met. I ask, ‘How can I show you how to? What do it’s good to carry out your job?’ It’s good for morale and offers them alternatives to develop,” stated Yoon.
In early 2022, Yoon and his crew labored with the Workplace of Worker Expertise and Improvement (OEED) to create movies for OFO on correctly sporting PPE. OEED supplied the script (reviewed and accredited by SPSB) and actors, and the Security Workforce supervised throughout filming. The result’s a group of movies out there to all OFO workers. “This venture makes me really feel actually good as a result of I do know I’m instantly affecting individuals’s lives. We would like individuals to be secure and go dwelling to their households on the finish of every shift,” stated Yoon.
FSIS Core Values
Yoon is a agency believer in all 4 FSIS Core Values — Accountable, Collaborative, Empowered and Options-Oriented. “As a frontrunner, one should be accountable for attaining targets,” stated Yoon. Moreover, he all the time takes accountability for his crew’s actions, in addition to his personal.
Yoon is collaborative by reaching out to others within the group and constructing relationships. By way of coaching, he feels empowered to do his job. Yoon additionally believes it’s his job as a supervisor to make sure members of his crew apply themselves, and he works with them to determine collectively what coaching they want. Stated Yoon, “Skilled growth for me and my workers is necessary, and FSIS offers many alternatives for coaching.”
Lastly, he enjoys working with different program areas to develop options to handle company points. At the moment, the Security Workforce is working with the Workplace of Planning, Evaluation and Danger Administration to develop an in-house security database that may present knowledge evaluation for security key efficiency indicators (KPI). For instance, if an worker experiences a problem with the peracetic acid used as an antimicrobial on the manufacturing line, he’ll full a kind. The knowledge from the shape can be deposited in a database. The info is then filtered and supplied to Yoon’s crew to assist determine tendencies and supply corrective actions primarily based on these tendencies. The security crew will begin by expecting tendencies with hazards after which transfer on to monitoring accidents.
Schooling and Background
Yoon earned a Bachelor of Science diploma in occupational security and well being from Columbia Southern College in 2012 and a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from Northcentral College in 2015. He went on to obtain a graduate certificates in enterprise intelligence from Villanova College in 2016 and a certificates in govt management and administration from the College of Notre Dame in 2017.
Wishing to serve his nation and earn cash for school, Yoon served within the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves as a provide administration and operations specialist from 2000 to 2002. After the occasions of 9/11, Yoon needed to enter intelligence; in spite of everything, he already spoke a overseas language (Korean). He served lively obligation with the U.S. Navy from 2002 to 2012, the place he realized to learn, write and converse Pashto over the course of a yr.
Later, as a Pashto linguist, Yoon was deployed to Afghanistan 4 instances. In 2010, when he might not deploy, he labored full time within the security workplace, one thing he had carried out as a collateral obligation throughout his first eight years with the Navy. As a security officer, he gained expertise presenting ideas to excessive stage management, together with the bottom commanding officer. This expertise has served him nicely in later security positions with the American Pink Cross and FSIS.
After his time with the U.S. Navy, Yoon spent the subsequent ten years with the American Pink Cross, 9 of which he served as a security officer to the division director. In his final yr with the nonprofit, Yoon was accepted into their govt growth program and promoted to company finance director, the place he realized about KPIs and evaluation, and briefed the chief working officer month-to-month.
In late 2021, Yoon determined to pursue a profession in public service that may complement each his army service and security background. A profession transition specialist at Wounded Warrior Mission helped Yoon enhance his resume and recognized the SPSB place with FSIS. He utilized for the job as a result of it appeared like the fitting alternative, given his schooling and expertise.
Of her new department chief, Yoon’s supervisor, Yolanda Chambers, Director, Administrative Providers Division, stated, “Jerome has been with OM Administrative Providers Division somewhat over a yr. Throughout his time with us, he has demonstrated wonderful management and technical experience in taking over new challenges and assembly the calls for of the company by main his crew in tackling worker issues of safety and strategically streamlining processes for bodily safety. He has efficiently guided and motivated the Security and Bodily Safety Department in finishing a number of mission crucial initiatives for the company.”
Outdoors of Workplace Hours
Yoon and his spouse Jenny are the proud dad and mom of Ethan, 6, and Alyssa, 3. Meals security is necessary to his household, as his son has six meals allergy symptoms that have been recognized when Ethan was a child. When he’s not within the workplace serving to FSIS obtain its mission, Yoon enjoys enjoying golf, cheering on the Baltimore Ravens and Orioles, and enjoying along with his kids.
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