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Criminal Investigator (Senior Operations Manager)
Food and Drug Administration · Posted 53 days ago
Hybrid Silver Spring, MD $144K – $187K Apply by Aug 7, 2026 Criminal Investigation ESTJISTJISTP Operations
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The position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII), Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI). As FDA's criminal law enforcement and intelligence arm, OCI is responsible for protecting public health and furthering the FDA mission by investigating suspected criminal violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and other related laws. Click here to learn more about FDA/OCI.
What You'll Do
- →Serves as Senior Criminal Investigator and trained authority in organizing, conducting, and/or managing difficult and complex investigative projects, programs, and national level criminal investigations.
- →Exercises managerial oversight in multiple administrative functional areas, providing authoritative technical, criminal, administrative, and operational guidance to the Directors, Special Agent in Charge - HQS Operations, and field personnel.
- →Provides authoritative guidance to field managers and case agents - monitoring, researching, and assessing complex or precedent-setting criminal investigations conducted by field personnel.
- →Prepares, reviews, and approves progress and productivity reports relating to nationwide ongoing criminal investigations.
- →Establishes and maintains effective working relationships as liaison to inter-agency, national, and international law enforcement agencies, providing effective coordination and cooperation in collection, analysis, and dissemination of information.
Requirements
- ✓There is no education substitution for this position at the GS-14 grade level.
- ✓Other Requirements: 1.
- ✓You must include a copy of the Training Certificate of Completion in your application package. 2.
- ✓Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP): The incumbent is subject to work unscheduled duty hours and must be available for unscheduled duty based upon the needs of the U.S.
- ✓Department of Health & Human Services.
- ✓Therefore, the incumbent is eligible for Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) of an additional 25%, and is subject to the provisions of the LEAP Act of 1994. 3.
- ✓Federal Law Enforcement Officer (FLEO): This position meets the eligibility criteria for law enforcement retirement under both the Civil Service Retirement Systems (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS).
- ✓Employees covered by either retirement system that reach age 50 or over with at least twenty years of service as a law enforcement officer are qualified for law enforcement retirement.
- ✓In addition, employees covered by FERS (all new hires to the federal government) of any age with at least twenty-five years of service as a law enforcement officer are qualified for law enforcement retirement.
- ✓Finally, employees who reach age 57 with at least twenty years of service as a law enforcement officer are subject to mandatory retirement.
- ✓This position is approved for Primary Law Enforcement coverage under 5 (USC) 8336 (c) or 5 USC 8412 (d). 4.
- ✓Lautenberg Amendment: This position authorizes the incumbent to carry a firearm and must meet the Lautenberg Amendment requirements as described in Title 18, USC Section 992 (g).
- ✓Any person who has been convicted of a felony, a misdemeanor, or crime of domestic violence cannot lawfully possess a firearm.
- ✓The term convicted as defined by the statute, excludes any person whose conviction has been expunged, set-aside, pardoned, or any person whose civil rights have been restored, so long as the restoration does not restrict the shipping, transport, possession or receipt of firearms or ammunition.
Benefits
- ★All requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement (08/07/2026); only education and experience gained by this date will be considered.
- ★You must continue to meet all requirements throughout the hiring process.
- ★You must submit supporting documentation to verify your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
- ★For internal applicants an SF-50 will be required.
- ★If Educational requirements are listed, you must submit a Transcript, even if you occupy the series/grade in question.
- ★See the Required Documents section for full details...You must submit https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents to verify your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
- ★For most applicants, an ttps://help.usajobs.gov/working-in-government/service/sf-50 will be required.
- ★See the Required Documents section for details.
- ★Be sure that any files you upload as supporting documentation are free of security or compression features which render such documents unreadable to our system.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 522cf97d-5f8b-4cfa-9983-02faa79f614a
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