Chemical Threat Preparedness Laboratory Supervisor
Supervisory level Laboratory Scientist assigned to the Chemical Threat Preparedness Laboratory of the Office of Laboratory Services. Works in partnership with the national Chemical Laboratory Response Network. The position performs and oversees highly complex chemistry analyses on equipment such as GCMS in response to chemical agents of terrorism or chemical threat impacting public health. Works closely with the Biological Threat Preparedness unit and serves as backup with the select agent program during an unknown substance white powder threat. Wears personal protective equipment (PPE). Other duties may include participating in protocol validation, monitoring QC, ordering supplies and lead worker over site employees.
Minimum Qualifications
Training: Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university in a biological, microbiological, chemical, or environmental science, medical technology, molecular biology, forensic sciences, or related field.
AND
Experience: Five (5) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid laboratory experience that is clinical or environmental in nature that produces a test result.
OR
Substitution: Graduate course work in one of the areas as described above from a regionally accredited college or university may substitute at the rate of one (1) year of experience for every fifteen (15) semester hours of education.
Special Requirement: For positions which involve processing and analysis of human specimens and/or the generation or interpretation of laboratory results that may be used in the diagnosis or treatment of a disease or condition in humans, the incumbent must have or be eligible for licensure as a WV Clinical Laboratory Practitioner as required by 64 C.S.R.§57.