Materials Handler Supervisor
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Materials Examiners and Identifier
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Location
Manhattan, Kansas
Salary
$26.05 - $30.40
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves receiving, inspecting, storing, and preparing samples, veterinary products, lab supplies, and equipment at a national facility focused on bio and agro-defense, while also handling waste disposal and shipments of sensitive materials.
It requires careful attention to detail for identifying unmarked or complex items and managing inventory in a secure environment.
A good fit would be someone with hands-on experience in lab or warehouse operations, especially with hazardous or biological substances, who is organized and comfortable following strict safety protocols.
Key Requirements
- Training and experience in handling, examining, and identifying complex materials, including those without markings or documentation
- Knowledge of storing, issuing, packing, and shipping hazardous or infectious materials, such as Select Agents and Toxins
- Experience with inventory management, including using computerized systems to process orders and warehouse stock
- Ability to perform exhaustive research and reference complex specifications for material identification
- Familiarity with decontaminating and disposing of biological waste and materials
- Experience in assembling shipments for foreign and domestic transport of infectious substances and supplies
Full Job Description
As a Materials Examiner and Identifier you will perform duties and tasks related to the proper receipt, identification/examination, storage, and preparation of submitted samples, veterinary biologics, laboratory reagents, equipment, supplies and related materials, as well as, disposing of decontaminated biological waste and/or materials at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF).
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 handling and shipping select agents your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.
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. Major Duties:
- The duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Performs the full range of examining and identifying explosive materials for the most complex categories of materials and equipment.
- Examines and identifies complex and difficult items received such as: no markings or documentation; require exhaustive and extensive research; require reference to complex, subjective specifications.
- Issues inventory, supplies and materials; stores and pulls warehouse stock; packs and unpacks materials; loads and unloads materials; uses computerized equipment to process orders issued..
- Assembles and arranges for Foreign and Domestic shipments of infectious materials, including Select Agents and Toxins, sample kits, check tests, reagents and supplies.
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