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Biological Science Laboratory Technician (Insect) Brighton, MI

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Hello and thanks for your interest in a career with USDA APHIS PPQ!
Please note this is an Outreach Notice to make you aware of 3 vacancies open with USDA APHIS PPQ's Emerald Ash Borer Biocontrol Rearing Lab in Brighton, Michigan! Please apply through USA Jobs (link provided within announcement). This is a Permanent Position.

Salary is:
Year 1 GS 5 - $38,723
Year 2 GS 6 - $43,165
Year 3 and beyond please refer to the GS 6 steps on the OPM Salary Tables

This is a full-time term appointment not to exceed 13 months. (Appointment may be extended up to 4 years without reannouncing). For more details click: Term Appointments

Term positions like this include medical benefits, retirement, thrift savings plan, Paid Vacation, Sick Time, Holiday Leave and more!

I apologize, the original posting was cancelled on 8/5 and now reposted here  08/06/2021 to 08/12/2021.


Summary


As a Biological Science Laboratory Technician, you provide practical technical support by performing work involving the production, research and operations of laboratory and field settings; and the rearing and maintenance of host colonies and parasitoid colonies. This includes working independently and in concert with other staff members to sustain an efficient and cohesive workforce, ensure collaboration and knowledge transfer involving the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) control program.




Responsibilities

The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.

  • The duties may include, but are not limited to:
  • Performs standardized, technical, field and laboratory duties that support long-and short-term projects of relevance to Plant Protection and Quarantine and its EAB biocontrol program.
  • Develops, refines, verifies, justifies, organizes, evaluates and analyzes data pertaining to risk, diagnosis, mitigation, rearing, control, treatment and quarantine status.
  • Prepares reports which summarize progress and results of projects.
  • Develop, refine, apply, and utilize techniques involved in EAB physiology, habitat, response studies; and reproducing, collecting and caring for insect colonies and their biological control agents.
  • Responsible for daily laboratory operational tasks.
  • Applies insecticides in cages, greenhouse, and/or field tests.
  • Determines the presence or absence of appropriate host and parasitic insect life stage(s).Scouts for potential collection sites to detect pest populations as directed, contacts property owners for permission to use sites, and set up collection equipment.

I wish you the best in all your career pursuits! Please reach out to me with any recruiting questions.

Best,

Tom Colarusso

Thomas.W.Colarusso@usda.gov

USDA APHIS PPQ

Outreach and Recruitment

Call/ Text: 518-420-9779