Subject: Full-Time Job: Biosecurity Manager, USDA, Apply By Jun. 19

Description:
The work in this position provides oversight, advice, technical services in
bio-security and bio-containment within Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), Plant and Protection Quarantine (PPQ), Science and
Technology (S&T), Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory (BSL-3) Enhanced, agriculture
containment facility and other locations within the Beltsville laboratory.
This laboratory is responsible for the molecular and biochemical federal
confirmation of high consequence and Select Agent plant pathogens in the U.S.

US Citizenship is required.

Duties include:
- Horticultural and plant pathogen related activities within the
BSL3-Enhanced facility including growing plants, daily watering, fertilizing,
transplanting, grafting or inoculating, recording symptom data, sampling
plants for scientists.
- Maintaining a biological control integrated pest management program.
- Updating USDA, APHIS select agent facility registration information, select
agent renewals, forms, records, and logs.

Qualifications:
Degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management,
chemistry, or related disciplines. Experience in plant pathology, plant
biology, or horticulture. Ability to apply unrelated processes and methods to
fulfill program requirements and develop regulatory guidelines, protocols,
and orders related to biosafety, biosecurity, and biocontainment.

For full details and application instructions, see link. The deadline to
apply is June 19.

Contact Person: Katya Solovyeva
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Website URL: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/471750400