- Position Title
- Chemist
- Agency
- Geological Survey
- Announcement Number
- USGS-SAC-24-12386776-DE-MAW Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, June 13, 2024 to Friday, June 28, 2024
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Eligibilities
Please mark "YES" to all eligibility options below for which you wish to be considered. We can only verify eligibility options for which you claim and provide proper documentation. Please see the "Required Documents" section of the announcement for specific requirements.
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
Are you a current Department of the Interior employee who meets the definition of surplus or displaced from a position in the competitive service that makes you eligible under the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)? If yes, please confirm that you meet all the following eligibility requirements:
- This position is in the same local commuting area as the position of record from which you will be separated; and
- This position is at a grade level no higher than the grade of the position of record from which you will be separated; and
- This position has no greater promotion potential than the position of record from which you will be separated; and
- You have a current performance rating of record of at least fully successful or the equivalent; and
- You have not yet been separated.
3.
Are you a current or former employee of a Federal agency (other than the Department of the Interior) who meets the definition of displaced from a position in the competitive service that makes you eligible under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)? If yes, please confirm that you meet all the following eligibility requirements:
- This position is in the same local commuting area as the position of record from which you were separated; and
- This position is at a grade level no higher than the grade of the position of record from which you were separated; and
- This position has no greater promotion potential than the position of record from which you were separated; and
- Your last performance rating of record was at least fully successful or the equivalent; and
- You were separated from your position of record less than one year ago.
Preferences
1.
Would you accept a term appointment?
Assessment 1
Please select the responses to the questions below that best describes your experience as it relates to this position.
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Basic Requirements for GS-1320: Choose the one answer that best describes your education and experience as it pertains to the mandatory basic requirements for Chemists.
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GS-09: In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements, you must have professional experience, graduate education, or a combination of professional experience and graduate education. Select the one response below that best describes your education and/or experience.
3.
Please select the response that best describes your experience applying knowledge of the principles and techniques of carbon and nutrient cycling to forests, soils, and watersheds.
4.
Please select the response that best describes your experience performing laboratory and field extractions of nitrogen and phosphorus from soils.
5.
Please select the response that best describes your experience operating, maintaining, and performing major and minor troubleshooting of gas chromatographs.
6.
Please select the response that best describes your experience measuring nitrate, ammonium, and phosphate in water and soil extracts using a Lachat flow injection analyzer
7.
Please select the response that best describes your experience using, repairing, and maintaining liquid phase high-temperature combustion analyzers for total dissolved carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and total dissolved nitrogen content of soil extracts and water sample
8.
Please select the response that best describes your experience using, repairing, and maintaining a solid phase high temperature combustion elemental analyzer for carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur content of soil and plant tissue samples.
9.
Please select the response that best describes your experience overseeing the daily operation of a biogeochemistry laboratory for trace level nutrient analyses in environmental samples, including establishing work priorities for laboratory technicians, creating standard operating protocols, reviewing laboratory procedures, and training new employees in laboratory safety procedures.
10.
Please select the response that best describes your experience utilizing experience with wide variety of environmental settings in the field collection, handling, preparation, processing and analysis of soil samples, and water samples ranging from dilute precipitation to isotopically labeled lysimeter samples.
11.
Please select the response that best describes your experience with the operation, maintenance, and calibration of ion chromatographs for the analysis of water samples.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
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I certify, to the best of my knowledge that all the information in my application is true, and that I have truthfully and accurately represented my work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education. I understand that providing false or fraudulent information may be grounds for not hiring me or for firing me after I begin work. I also certify that I have read the entire vacancy announcement; that I have reviewed my answers to the eligibility questions for accuracy; and that I understand what supporting documentation, if any, is required for submission and when it's due.