Research Industrial Hygienist / Chemist / Toxicologist

$100,992

Groton Submarine Base, ConnecticutFull-timePosted Oct 27, 2026

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Job description

You will serve as a RESEARCH INTERDISCIPLINARY in the SUBMARINE MEDICAL AND SURVIVAL SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT of NAVSUBMEDRSCHLAB NEW LONDON CT.

For GS-13: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience leading ongoing scientific efforts to characterize, monitor, and document atmospheric conditions and identifying research topics and capability gaps pertinent to atmospheric analysis.

Experience writing and delivering research proposals, research protocols, technical reports, presentations, and/or public addresses. Experience budgeting and coordinating scientific research project workload needs as well as operating within funding constraints. Experience identifying and initiating improvements to sampling technology.

Experience planning sequence of operations on a weekly, project, or longer basis to ensure an even flow and distribution of work. For GS-12: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience assisting in ongoing scientific efforts to characterize, monitor, and document atmospheric conditions while identifying research topics and capability gaps pertinent to atmospheric analysis. Experience writing research proposals, research protocols, technical reports, presentations, and/or public addresses to be reviewed before delivery.

Experience assisting in the budgeting and coordination efforts for a scientific research project workload. Experience identifying improvements to sampling technology. Experience planning sequence of operations for review on a weekly, project, or longer basis to ensure an even flow and distribution of work. OR For GS-12: Successful completion of a Ph.

D. or equivalent doctoral degree, in a related field. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series IOR FOR APPLICABLE JOB SERIES 0415: https://www.

opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0400/toxicology-series-0415/ 0690: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0600/industrial-hygiene-series-0690/ 1320: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/chemistry-series-1320/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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. Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed.

If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For 0415 Series: Applicants must possess a bachelor's degree or higher in toxicology; or an appropriate discipline of the biological, medical, or veterinary sciences that included at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, biochemistry, or physiology, and 12 semester hours in toxicology.

For 0690 Series: Applicants must possess a bachelor's degree or higher level in industrial hygiene, occupational health sciences, occupational and environmental health, toxicology, safety sciences, or related science; OR, a Bachelor's degree in a branch of engineering, physical science, or life science that included 12 semester hours in chemistry, including organic chemistry, and 18 additional semester hours of courses in any combination of chemistry, physics, engineering, health physics, environmental health, biostatistics, biology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, or industrial hygiene; OR, a Certification from the Board for Global EHS Credentialing (formerly American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH)) For 1320 Series: Applicants must possess a bachelor's degree or higher 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, a combination of education and experience with 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.

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