This position is located at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks, ND. In this position you will serve as an essential team member, an analytical chemist contributing highly accurate, high-throughput analyses to the scientific programs.

Duties

Identifies and implements training courses, novel methodologies, and equipment that improve utilization of human, technical, or fiscal resources in Nutritional Analytic Laboratory (NAL). Provides oversight of NAL fiscal resources and prepares budgetary plans and assessments. Produces regular reports of laboratory productivity for use by the leadership team in research and financial planning. Develops unusual and difficult methodologies for a full range of analyses on a wide variety of materials including animal and human tissues, body fluids, excrements, and foods. Develops standard operating procedures and quality controls for analyses for inclusion in the NAL laboratory manual. Serves on external technical committees.

Requirements

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Time in grade: Applicants must have one year at the next lower grade to be considered for the next higher grade (e.g. one year at the GS-12 grade level for consideration for the GS-13 grade level). Basic Requirements: Degree: physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics. OR Combination of education and experience - course work equivalent to a major as shown above, including at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics, plus appropriate experience or additional education. AND Additional Requirements: In addition to meeting the basic requirements described above, applicants must also meet additional qualification requirements as stated below. GS-13 Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience must be described for each grade level advertised. The specialized experience requirements for this position are: Qualifying experience for GS-13 includes one year of specialized experience comparable to GS-12 which is directly related to the work of this position, and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. For this position, specialized experience performing analyses that include wet bench procedures and instrumental analyses to include gas and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry; experience participating in the design and planning of experiments by individual scientific laboratories; developing and validating novel analytical methods for analysis of multiple biological matrices and generating reports of laboratory productivity for use by leadership for research and financial planning. GS-14 Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience must be described for each grade level advertised. The specialized experience requirements for this position are: Qualifying experience for GS-14 includes one year of specialized experience comparable to GS-13 which is directly related to the work of this position, and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. For this position, specialized experience includes experience performing analyses that include wet bench procedures and instrumental analyses to include inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, trapped ion mobility spectrometry and time-of-flight mass spectrometry; developing and validating methodologies for a full range of analyses on a wide variety of materials i.e. animal, human tissues, body fluids, excrements, or foods; generating reports of laboratory productivity for use by leadership for research and financial planning and writing papers and abstracts on data generated from methods development or reviews. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Please see above for education qualification requirement information.

Contacts

• Address Agricultural Research Service 2150 Centre Avenue Building D, Suite 300 Fort Collins, CO 80526 US
• Name: Nelly Wilson
• Phone: (703) 259-9360
• Email: [email protected]