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Location

Greensboro, NC | United States

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Job description

Duties

CASE WORK and REPORT WRITING -

• The Forensic Scientist I will complete prescribed Toxicology training requirements before beginning casework. The Forensic Scientist I performs casework on toxicology evidence seized by Law Enforcement officers in the course of Driving While Impaired (DWI) investigations. Forensic Scientists in this position also analyze the alcohol concentration of liquids (e.g. non-tax-paid liquor). The evidence is analyzed to determine the presence or absence of impairing substances.
• Some or all of the following screening and confirmation techniques are used in the analysis: Headspace Gas Chromatography Immunoassay Solid phase extractions Liquid-Liquid extractions Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry Liquid Chromatography / Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Liquid Chromatography/ Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.

COURT TESTIMONY and COMMUNICATION -

• The Forensic Scientist must testify in state and federal courts as to his/her analysis of the evidence. The Forensic Scientist is, through education, training and experience, qualified by the court as an expert in the field of forensic toxicology before being allowed to testify about the analysis.

COLLATERAL DUTIES -

• Forensic scientists help to maintain the laboratory equipment and instrumentation and may perform repairs. Forensic scientists, using current SOPs, prepare chemical reagents and solvents, and perform document quality control tests on chemical reagents, solvents, equipment, and instrumentation.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies

• Employees must have a working knowledge of the principles, concepts, theories, reference sources, and laboratory practices involved with the forensic examination of evidence.
• Employees must have a working knowledge of criminal law and of the rules and regulations regarding evidence gathering.
• Employees must have a working knowledge of scientific methodology and of laboratory safety practices.
• Ability to perform and record complex standardized and non-standardized laboratory tests and procedures.
• Ability to analyze results, interpret methodology, and to understand and solve theoretical problems.
• Ability to express technical information clearly both orally and in writing when reporting results, testifying, or explaining procedures to others.
• Ability to understand and follow complex oral and written instructions.
• Ability to perceive colors normally and make olfactory distinctions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a major in chemistry, toxicology, pharmaceutical science with chemistry concentration (organic, inorganic, analytical or physical), forensic science (with concentration in chemistry or toxicology), biochemistry, pharmacology or closely related curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Necessary Special Requirement

• Must obtain individual certification consistent with international and ISO standards within eighteen months of the date the analyst becomes eligible to seek certification according to the standards of the certifying entity.

Management preferences:

• Two years of laboratory experience with experience in Forensic Toxicology

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Salary

$49.16k - $86.03k