Environmental Laboratory Chemist

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Collection, receipt, labeling, and preservation of environmental samples.
• Chemical analysis of Water, Wastewater, Soil, Air, Stack Emission, Hazardous Waste, and other environmental samples.
• Operation, calibration, verification, and routine maintenance of laboratory instruments.
• Preparation of reagents, standards, calibration solutions, and quality control samples.
• Performing analysis using instruments such as:
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
• Flame Photometer
• BOD Incubator
• COD Digester
• DO Meter
• pH Meter
• Conductivity Meter
• Turbidity Meter
• TDS Meter
• Analytical Balance
• Muffle Furnace
• Hot Air Oven
• GC, HPLC, ICP-OES/AAS (where applicable)
• Recording, calculation, validation, and reporting of analytical results.

Ensuring compliance with NABL ISO/IEC 17025 quality management requirements.

• Maintaining laboratory records, worksheets, logbooks, and test reports.
• Participating in Internal Quality Control (IQC), Proficiency Testing (PT), and Inter-Laboratory Comparison (ILC) programs.
• Monitoring laboratory quality assurance and quality control procedures.
• Ensuring compliance with MoEF&CC, CPCB, SPCB, and other regulatory guidelines.
• Assisting in internal audits, management reviews, and accreditation activities.
• Implementing Corrective Actions (CA) and Preventive Actions (PA).
• Maintaining laboratory safety, chemical storage, and waste disposal practices.
• Inventory management of chemicals, reagents, glassware, and consumables.
• Training laboratory staff and maintaining technical competency.

Supporting method development, validation, and uncertainty estimation where applicable

Preferred candidate profile