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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Chemist to join our team! In this role you will get to provide chemical expertise to customer training events and exercises. Articulates Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) related information, responds to questions, and assists in building lab scenarios that capture the audience’s training objectives.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Construct chemical warfare agent labs and evaluate unit safety and sampling procedures while in the lab.
• Provide a course of instruction focused on CWA, their development, characteristics, historic use, emerging threats, precursors, and signs and symptoms of exposure as needed.
• Design and build all the CWA lab processes and ensure required chemicals and equipment are available.
• Provide feedback to the training unit on safety, sampling procedures, and explanation of the lab process while in the lab.
• Serve as a SME on the following:
  • Chemical warfare agents, their synthesis, exposure routes, signs, and symptoms, and their mode of transmission as well as the detection equipment to include basic instrument maintenance, operational theory, and interpretation of instrument outputs / responses to both simulant and live agent chemical challenges. Instruments will include currently fielded US DoD equipment (e.g. M8 & M256A2 CDK, JCAD, RMX - Raman, FTX - FTIR, MX908 HPMS) and select nonstandard detection equipment (e.g. multi-gas - 4 gas detector w/ PID, colorimetric test papers and length of stain tubes).
  • Decontamination of chemical warfare agents and the physical removal techniques utilized by US DoD personnel.
  • Respiratory protection to include air purifying respirators (APR), powered air purifying respirators (PAPR), canister function, break through, and proper respiratory PPE / IPT selection based established threat agent.
• Be familiar with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) / Individual Protective Technologies (IPT) to include knowledge of protective fabrics, to include permeation resistance to traditional and emerging threats.
• Experience with neutralization media application and evaluation utilizing US DoD specific solid and liquid decontaminants.
• While conducting Live Agent Training, assist facility personnel, as required, with filling lab process with appropriate precursor chemicals and CWA and provide safety oversight of lab operations during training.
• Shall meet medical requirements to wear a protective mask in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelors and 10+ years experience, Masters Degree and 8+ or PhD and 6+ years in a Chemistry-related field from an accredited school is highly desired.
• Experience in chemical weapons use and consequence management of their use.
• Maintain assigned protective mask to include assembly and disassembly.
• Maintain assigned chemical protective ensemble.
• Experienced with practical application of CBRN-related skills, to include operating in contaminated environment and employment of CBRN PPE.
• Must have a current Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance in the future.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Current Top Secret clearance
• Knowledge in CWA design and manufacturing processes is highly desired.
• Experienced with laboratory equipment to demonstrate the manufacture of CWA is highly desired.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Secret

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!