Senior Chemist (Metals)
At SPL, the work you do matters. Our teams provide trusted energy and environmental testing and measurement solutions that protect communities, support critical infrastructure, and safeguard the environment. With a nationwide footprint and opportunities for growth across multiple locations and disciplines, SPL is a place where you can build a career while making a real-world impact.
We are seeking an experienced and highly technical Senior Chemist to join our environmental lab in Conroe, TX.
This is a great opportunity for a hands-on analytical expert who can lead from the bench while helping drive laboratory performance. Reporting to the Lab Manager, the Senior Chemist will serve as a key technical partner and day-to-day resource for the laboratory team, taking ownership of complex methods, instrumentation, data quality, investigations, and technical problem-solving.
The ideal candidate combines deep analytical expertise with the judgment, initiative, and communication skills needed to mentor others, resolve operational challenges, and support a fast-paced, high-volume laboratory.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as a senior technical resource, providing guidance, resolving technical escalations, and supporting workflow and turnaround priorities
- Perform advanced trace metals analysis on environmental and QC samples in accordance with EPA methods and lab procedures
- Review and validate analytical data, results, LIMS documentation, and QA/QC to identify instrument drift, matrix interferences, analytical discrepancies, and sample anomalies
- Develop, validate, transfer, and optimize analytical methods, SOPs, work instructions, and controlled lab documentation
- Train and mentor lab staff on analytical methods, instrumentation, SOPs, QA/QC, and troubleshooting
- Operate and maintain ICP and ICP-MS instrumentation, including calibration, performance verification, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair
- Lead investigations involving nonconformances, method deviations, root cause analysis, and CAPA
- Support audits, data integrity, ISO 17025, NELAC/TNI, and regulatory compliance
- Partner with leadership to improve workflow, capacity, continuous improvement initiatives, and overall lab performance
- Perform additional duties as assigned