Senior Chemist
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're seeking an experienced and highly technical Senior Chemist to join our environmental testing lab in Reading, PA.
In this role, you'll serve as a key technical leader, taking ownership of complex analytical challenges and helping drive the quality and efficiency of laboratory operations. You'll perform advanced analytical testing, troubleshoot instrumentation and method-related issues, optimize testing procedures, and ensure accurate, defensible results. You'll also collaborate with laboratory leadership to improve processes, lead technical investigations, and mentor laboratory staff, sharing your expertise and helping the team excel in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the lead technical resource for inorganic testing, overseeing analytical methods, instrument performance, and resolution of complex technical issues
- Perform advanced inorganic analysis on environmental and QC samples, including metals, nutrients, anions, and other inorganic parameters, in accordance with EPA methods and lab procedures
- Operate, calibrate, maintain, and troubleshoot analytical instrumentation, including IC, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, UV-Vis, FIA, discrete analyzers, and related equipment
- Review and validate analytical data, test results, and LIMS documentation to identify QA/QC issues, instrument drift, matrix interferences, and analytical discrepancies
- Develop, validate, transfer, and optimize analytical methods, SOPs, work instructions, and lab procedures
- Train and mentor lab staff on analytical methods, instrumentation, SOPs, QA/QC, and troubleshooting
- Lead technical investigations involving nonconformances, method deviations, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
- Support audits, data integrity, ISO/IEC 17025, TNI/NELAP, and applicable regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with lab leadership to improve workflows, testing capacity, turnaround times, and overall lab performance
- Perform additional duties as assigned