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- The Department of General Services, Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) seeks to hire a qualified candidate to serve as a Senior Scientist in the Biological Threat Emergency Response (BTER) Group.
- BTER staff performs rapid molecular, conventional culture and immunological testing for the detection of bioterrorism agents and toxins, newly emerging pathogens, such as Ebola, Marburg, and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and highly infectious pathogens of significant public health concern, such as Measles, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and Bacterial Meningitis.
- The candidate will be responsible for accessioning and processing human clinical specimens and environmental samples in biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) laboratories.
- BTER Senior Scientist duties will also include testing and documentation of analyses performed, performing QA/QC procedures, preparing testing reagents, troubleshooting and/or maintenance of equipment, assists with development, validation, and implementation of new methods, and packaging/shipping of infectious materials.
- This Position requires testing outside of normal business hours on demand; serves on a BT on-call rotation for emergency response testing of potentially hazardous materials.
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