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Posted: March 11, 2026 (2 days ago)

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CHEMIST

Commander, Navy Installations Command

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Location

Guam

Salary

$89,508 - $116,362

per year

Closes

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GS-11 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $62,107 - $80,737

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves working as a chemist to support the Navy's fuel operations on Guam, focusing on ensuring fuel quality, managing inventory, and overseeing lab testing and compliance.

You'll handle technical tasks like analyzing data, investigating issues with fuel materials, and creating reports to keep everything running smoothly.

It's a great fit for someone with a chemistry background and experience in quality control or lab work, especially if you're interested in government or military-related roles in a tropical location with extra pay for living costs.

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in chemistry or related field meeting OPM basic requirements
  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in petroleum technical support
  • Knowledge of quality assurance, operations, inventory control, requirements development, and facilities management for fuels
  • Experience maintaining laboratory quality control programs and evaluating test results
  • Proficiency in data manipulation, spreadsheet preparation, statistical analysis, and report writing
  • Ability to conduct investigations of off-specification materials and specialized testing
  • Skills in ensuring compliance through standards, procedures, and management reporting

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Chemist in the Regional Fuels Office at COMMANDER NAVY REGION MARIANAS. A Cost-of-Living-Allowance (COLA) of 11.88% will be added to the stated salary.

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position.

Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

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: as a Chemist providing petroleum technical support in the areas of quality assurance, operations, inventory control, requirements development and facilities management.

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 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. Major Duties:

  • You will provide petroleum technical support in the areas of quality assurance, operations, inventory control, requirements development and facilities management.
  • You will maintain technical supervision of the Laboratory Quality Control (QC) program.
  • You will evaluate test results against requirements and specifications and prepare clear and concise lab reports which require the manipulations of database elements, preparation of spreadsheets, and statistical analysis of data.
  • You will apply technical and specification requirements during investigations of off-specification materials and conduct specialized testing or research projects.
  • You will ensure compliance by setting standards, developing procedures, reviewing site level compliance, and generating management reports.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/11/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/11/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12901312-26-TG