Chemist

Summary

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Duties

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• Serves as the agency’s senior technical authority on product engineering of petroleum, petroleum products, fuel additives, coal, lubricants, and alternate fuels.
• Determines necessary product testing, maintains item-specific data requirements and master data, and addresses product-related complaints.
• Provides technical expertise on the technical aspects of energy product applications, production, refining, measurement, sampling, storage, and transportation.
• Determines the acceptability of bids to provide alternate items to specifications and exceptions (referrals).
• Coordinates decision with the using activities and or assigned military engineer support activity and resolves all issues, conflicts, and concerns.
• Acts as the Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) and provides Statement of Work and Purchase Requests for supporting laboratory contracts.
• Coordinates the work of supporting scientists, engineers, environmentalists, and senior contracting personnel in order to resolve these technical conflicts.
• Maintains and oversees the Enterprise Business System (EBS) Petroleum Quality data.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: Yes
• Pre-Employment Physical: Not Required
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See for more information.
• Subject to Overseas Rotation Agreement: Yes
• Tour Length: 36 months
• You will be a Mission Essential employee. This requires you to work during an emergency to ensure continuation of essential functions. You may be required to work at the designated duty location, a telework site, or an alternate location/facility.
• Defense Acquisition Workforce position. Must complete DoD certification and other requirements. See Additional Info.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Chemist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• Basic Requirement:

Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in 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 in A 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.

• Specialized Experience: In Addition To The Basic Requirement, One Year Of Specialized Experience That Equipped You With The Particular Competencies To Successfully Perform The Duties Of The Position, And That Is Typically In Or Related To The Position To Be Filled. To Qualify At The GS-13 Level, Applicants Must Possess One Year Of Specialized Experience Equivalent To The GS-12 Level Or Equivalent Under Other Pay Systems In The Federal Service, Military Or Private Sector. Applicants Must Meet Eligibility Requirements Including, Minimum Qualifications, And Any Other Regulatory Requirements By The Cut-off/closing Date Of The Announcement Creditable Specialized Experience Includes:
• Interpret technical requirements and specifications to handle interrelated, emerging, and conflicting nature of Federal, State, and local environmental laws and regulations that govern the management of hazardous material.
• Analyzing items for compliance to standards and requirements, documents outcomes of tests and analysis, and mitigates issues as necessary.
• Establish and implement long-term projects and studies to resolve petroleum, petroleum product, and alternate fuel chemistry, specifications, measurement, transportation, storage, and handling problems.
• Resolves major conflicts between technical requirements, environmental concerns, storage and transportation issues, packaging requirements, measurement, and product availability.

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, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at time of application.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Additional information

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to:

Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at:

Acquisition Workforce: Position requires DoD Acquisition Engineering, Technical & Management (ETM), Practitioner certification within required timeframes. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years. Click here for more details and Resources

ADDITIONAL OVERSEAS INFORMATION

For an explanation of the overseas entitlements, please review the information in the following link:

U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement. Ordinarily Resident is defined as a U.S. citizen who is locally resident; and, has legal, permanent resident status within the host country; and, is subject to host country employment and tax laws.

Pay Retention will be extended to an eligible employee who applies through a formal recruitment program and is selected for a position at an overseas location.

Cost of Living Allowance may be authorized upon determination of eligibility. Please review the following link for additional information:

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug and is illegal.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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