Laboratory Worker

About the role

This position is located in the New World Screwworm Facility (NWSF), Field Operations (FiOps), Veterinary Services (VS), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). This position acts as a Laboratory Worker, providing support in laboratory setting focused on New World Screwworm (NWS) activities.

APHIS is an emergency response agency.New World Screwworm

Responsibilities

• Laboratory workers frequently lift and carry objects weighing from 10 to 30 pounds.
• The work requires continuous walking, standing, or sitting and considerable arm and hand movements to operate equipment and do preparation work.
• Special safety precautions are required and the incumbent uses protective gear such as laboratory coats, safety aprons, different types of gloves, safety glasses, and goggles.

Qualifications

To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume. For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience maintaining cleanliness and sanitation of a laboratory or similar facility, according to established procedures and applicable regulation, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title alone.

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

Additional information

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Visit the OPM website for information on how to apply as a CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP candidates must be rated and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluation of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evaluated section. When assessed through a score-based category rating method, CTAP/ICTAP applicants must receive a rating of at least 85 out of a possible 100.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. Applications will be evaluated in accordance with Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Delegated Examining Procedures and USDA policy using category rating. Applicants who meet basic minimum qualifications will be placed in one of three categories: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified. Within these categories, applicants eligible for veteran's preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans. Category placement will be determined based on applicants' quality of experience and the extent they possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) or job elements:

• Ability to perform laboratory support work without more than normal supervision
• Work practices (includes keeping things neat, clean, and in order)