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Toxicologist

Defense Health Agency

RemoteFull timeMid levelPosted today
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About the role

Duties

The successful selectee will perform the following duties:

  • conducting or performing extraction and derivatization of drugs of abuse and metabolites from urine, blood, and tissue specimens for the subsequent analytical analysis by gas and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry;
  • performing all laboratory operations under strict compliance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure results are scientifically accurate and forensically defendable in possible litigation proceedings;
  • serving as a laboratory representative and consultant to military agencies in the field of drug testing;
  • providing expert consultation to explain technical aspects of the laboratory analyses and chain of custody procedures, and to interpret and explain the results incorporating explanations and interpretations that are based upon known pharmacokinetic principles;
  • providing guidance on matters of interpretation of testing results and of experimental data from new method development;
  • coordinating with processing, screening, quality control, and certification sections to ensure specimen processing through the laboratory is a smooth, cooperative effort;
  • troubleshooting methods and offering solutions/alternatives to analytical challenges;
  • participating in routine casework analysis using instruments such as headspace-gas chromatography (HS-GC), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and the quadrupole-time-of flight mass spectrometry (QToF);
  • evaluating new instrumentation/software, and coordinating demonstrations with vendors to ensure suitability with laboratory needs;
  • recommending methods and approaches for detection on novel psychoactive compounds; and
  • consulting with and advising division leadership on the development, interpretation and potential solutions to problems where the work may involve cooperative efforts directly concerning the mission of the laboratory, interdepartmental projects or independent but related research.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess a bachelor's degree or higher in toxicology; or an appropriate discipline of the biological, medical, or veterinary sciences that included at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, biochemistry, or physiology, and 12 semester hours in toxicology.

Job details

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Remote

Employment

Full time

Seniority

Mid level

Headquarters

Dover AFB, Delaware

Posted

Posted today

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In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional toxicologist conducting laboratory analysis of chemical, biological, or physical agents using chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques or forensic practices (e.g. chain of custody, use of standard operating procedures, sample handling or testing processes such as accessioning, screening, drug/metabolite extraction and derivatization).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part-time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information.

If you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume.

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