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Supervisory Pharmaceutical Scientist

Food and Drug Administration · Posted 5 days ago

On-site Beltsville, MD $169K – $232K Apply by Jun 12, 2026 General Health Science INTJINTPISFJISTJ
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About the Role

This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority, Title 21 of the United States Code (21 US Code 379d-3a) as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, section 3072 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, Section 3624. The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment and be paid under the provisions of this authority. This position is being recruited based on the Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band E.

What You'll Do

  • Serves as a senior advisor to the Division Director and plans, manages, organizes, and directs all laboratory functions, surveillance testing, and laboratory based investigational activities as carried out by a highly trained and skilled staff of scientific professionals.
  • Leads scientists who conduct experiments to understand the impact of changes in specification of drug substance and ingredients, formulation, packaging, manufacturing equipment, and processes on product quality attributes.
  • Provides input to the Division Director to formulate and develop short term and long range new drug quality assessment goals, policies, and standards.
  • Assigns and manages projects based upon the degree of risk to product quality and public health impact.
  • Supports a lifecycle approach to drug application approval by providing relevant expertise and laboratory data to aid quality assessment of drug applications.
  • Manages and participates in an active research program and/or supervises research scientists engaged in a broad range of pharmaceutical quality research designed to ensure drug quality, safety, and efficacy.
  • Manages the functional discipline and provides leadership and management oversight to subordinate staff.

Requirements

  • Pay careful attention to the Qualifications and Education sections to identify vacancies where a transcript is required.
  • Even if you hold a similar position or are a current employee, you are not exempt from transcript requirements.
  • TRANSCRIPTS: Positions which are scientific or technical in nature often have very specific educational requirements.
  • You must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned.
  • Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
  • Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications.
  • Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
  • Department of Education.
  • If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional requirements.
  • Electronic Transcript Caution: If you have obtained your transcripts electronically, the file might contain security measures that could prevent our application system from reading the file.
  • Therefore, you should consider asking the institution to provide the file in a non-secured electronic format.
  • Alternatively, you could scan or take a photo of the printed copy of the transcript.
  • If your uploaded transcript cannot be read by our system, you may receive consideration and credit for the information we can access.
  • For further information, visit the U.S.

Personality Fit

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Job ID: 6139b132-2ca3-487b-b649-3a0be0079166

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