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Supervisory Chemist
Geological Survey · Posted 117 days ago
About the Role
What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position? Salary: $164,956 (step 01) to $197,200 (step 10). NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.
What You'll Do
- →As a Supervisory Chemist within the U.S.
- →Geological Survey (USGS), Water Mission Area (WMA), in the Laboratory and Analytical Services Division (LASD), some of your specific duties will include: Serves as the Chief of the National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) and is responsible for providing supervisory and leadership oversight for all units and operations.
- →Develops, refines, and continually improves strategies and policies to ensure the consistent, accurate, and reliable delivery of analytical services across the Water Enterprise Area.
- →Ensure defensible and compliant quality assurance practices by providing oversight and leadership of scientific, technical, and policy processes.
- →Coordinate the development, validation, approval, and maintenance and improvement of new and legacy analytical methodologies.
- →Ensures excellence in the logistical operation of facilities management and sample login services by providing oversight and leadership to the Facilities and Login units at the NWQL.
- →Physical Demands: Work is sedentary in nature.
- →Considerable travel is involved.
- →Work Environment: Work is performed in an office and laboratory setting.
- →Proper personal protective equipment such as goggles/safety glasses and gloves are required when entering laboratory area.
Requirements
- ✓Key Requirements: Selectee may be subject to serving a one-year probationary period.
- ✓This position requires completion of a 1-year supervisory probationary period, if one has not previously been completed.
- ✓More requirements are listed under Qualifications and Other Information.
- ✓Are There Any Special Requirements For This Position?
- ✓Because this position requires travel for official business, the selectee will be required to apply for a charge card within 30 calendar days of appointment.
- ✓Individuals who have delinquent account balances from a previous Government charge card will be required to satisfy their existing obligation before a new card can be issued.
- ✓A background investigation will be required for this position.
- ✓Continued employment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Failure to successfully meet these requirements will be grounds for termination.
- ✓Throughout the recruitment and hiring process we will be communicating with you via email; therefore, it is imperative that the email address you provide when applying for this vacancy remains active.
- ✓Should your email address change, please notify the point of contact identified in the vacancy announcement as soon as possible so that we can update our system.
- ✓If you are a Federal employee applying for a promotion (under merit promotion procedures) you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓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).
Personality Fit
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Job ID: 2ee6506f-39e8-487a-97c2-46d36f116383
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