The Forensic Chemist II is a technical position with direct responsibility for the day-to-day batch review and volatiles certification of routine and non-routine assays required by a post-mortem, forensic toxicology laboratory. This position supports the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the State Medical Examiner System through the discovery of primary and secondary causes of unattended, unwitnessed, accidental, suicidal or homicidal deaths. The Forensic Chemist II will focus on isolation of drugs, including novel substances, from biological specimens and pertinent evidence using highly sophisticated analytical instrumentation and review of the resulting data. The testing performed is highly complex and involves postmortem biological specimens. Results of the work are combined