As a Project Chemist, you’ll work with a wide variety of clients and valued as a unique resource as you contribute and support our project teams by providing key technical assistance for various environmental remediation and monitoring projects. Ideally, you'll bebased on the West Coast, and we'd be flexible on location for the talented candidate who knocks it out of the park.You’ll interact with Jacobs’ technical experts to refine field sampling and test plans, coordinate between multiple projects and laboratories to ensure analysis and testing is performed as planned and be the technical liaison between the laboratories and project teams. As data comes in, you’ll be the first to review, evaluate the results and see the story come together. You’ll showcase this work through project updates, technical reports, and presentations, each helping the project team to gain key insights for the design of a remedial strategy and strengthening the technical foundation of the company.
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology or environmental-related degree.
- Skillful in data validation, data review, field screening, data management, and sampling.
- Knowledge of chemical materials use, storage & shipping requirements.
- Practiced in scientific methods for collecting and analyzing scientific data.
- Familiarity with standard environmental test methods and procedures.
- Demonstrated proficiency in technical writing.
- Fundamental understanding of the sample collection and laboratory processes.
- Ability to travel up to 20% for fieldwork.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Master’s degree in an environmental related field.
- Professional experience in an environmental laboratory, preferably in a role with consulting responsibilities, quality, technical management, or client interactions.
- Ability to work both independently with minimal supervision on multiple projects and in a regionally diverse team environment.
- Proficiency in software typical of discipline.
- Ability to walk through a process to identify and close gaps in written procedures for non-standard tasks to ensure all objectives will be met.
- Ability to build and maintain successful relationships with co-workers, clients, and regulatory agencies.
- Readiness and desire to mentor junior staff.
