Chemist

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. 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.
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.