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Microbiologist (Biosafety)
Defense Health Agency · Posted 63 days ago
About the Role
About the Position: The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), a subordinate research laboratory under the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, is the lead medical biological defense research laboratory for the DOD Chemical Biological Defense Program. For additional information about USAMRIID and Fort Detrick, please visit http://usamriid.health.mil and http://www.detrick.army.mil.
What You'll Do
- →Serve as Alternate Biosafety Officer (BSO) of a controlled access medical research facility.
- →Assess risk of exposure to biological agents for personnel and property.
- →Set policy and provide written guidance, regulations, policies, and standard operating procedures that incorporate DoD, Army and consensus standards into Biosafety programs.
- →Provide training on laboratory safety, and use of positive pressure suits (PPS) for Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories.
- →Inspect and advise on design and modifications of BSL-1 through BSL-4 laboratories.
- →Provide advice on engineering controls and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- →Coordinate with researchers to determine empirical guidelines for safe research with biological agents.
Requirements
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.
Benefits
- ★Additional Information: Incumbent must participate in the Biological Personnel Reliability Program/Army Biological Surety Program - Obtain and hold Biological Personnel Reliability Program (BPRP) enrollment pursuant to the requirements of the Army Biological Surety Program.
- ★Individuals must maintain a current certification of enrollment in the BPRP as a condition of eligibility for continued employment.
- ★The BPRP is a suitability and reliability program operated by the agency and requires the employee to submit to and satisfactorily complete suitability and reliability screening and analysis.
- ★As a condition of employment, employees in this position must also be approved by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice for access to laboratories containing biological select agents and toxins pursuant to the terms of 42 CFR Part 73.
- ★Incumbent must participate in the Occupational Health Surveillance Program - Incumbent works in containment suites with highly hazardous infectious agents and toxins and is required to participate in then Occupational Health Surveillance Program (OHSP), IAW with AR 40-5 and DA Pam 385.69.
- ★The OHSP monitors worker health and provides vaccinations aimed at additional protection above personal protective devices.
- ★Individuals who have a medical condition that precludes receipt of a FDA licensed vaccine or who otherwise decline to receive said vaccinations will not meet the conditions of employment for this position.
Personality Fit
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