Data Validation, Chemists

ERM; New Delhi; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ERM in India offers a role as Environmental Chemist - Data Validation within the CDH of ERM, focusing on validation and quality assurance of environmental datasets.

You will perform Stage 1–3 validation, prepare DVRs and DUS, and review laboratory reports to ensure data integrity and regulatory compliance across global projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemistry or environmental chemistry.
• 3–6 years of experience in environmental laboratory data validation.
• Strong understanding of analytical chemistry methods and QA/QC procedures.
• Experience reviewing environmental data packages and EDDs.
• Familiarity with contaminants including metals, VOCs, SVOCs, PFAS and pesticides.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate environmental data using Stage 1–3 methods.
• Prepare validation reports, DVRs and DUS with recommendations.
• Review QA/QC summaries, case narratives, chains of custody.
• Collaborate with labs and risk assessors to resolve data issues.

Skills

Analytical chemistry

QA/QC procedures

Data validation

Data review

Attention to detail

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry

Master’s degree in Chemistry or Environmental Chemistry

Tools

EarthSoft EQuIS

EQuIS DQM

SQL

Power BI

GC/GC-MS

ICP/ICP-MS

HRGC/HRMS

LC-MS/MS

Job description

ERM is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organisations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet.

Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes.

As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery.

Why this role matters? As a Environmental Chemist - Data Validation, you will support ERM's global consulting delivery by performing environmental laboratory data review, analytical validation, quality assurance, and data usability assessments to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and defensibility of environmental datasets. You will work within the Data Analytics & Visualization (DAV) service line, partnering with project managers, environmental scientists, risk assessors, laboratories, environmental data managers, and regional consulting teams to deliver high quality, compliant, and decision-ready data for environmental and sustainability projects. This role is critical to ensuring regulatory compliance, maintaining data quality standards, reducing project risk, and enabling reliable environmental decision-making across global client engagements.

What your impact is?

• Perform Stage 1, 2A, 2B, 3, and project-specific validation of environmental analytical laboratory data. Experience in Stage 4 validation is considered an asset.
• Prepare, review, and implement Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) and Data Quality Objectives (DQOs) to ensure environmental data quality, usability, and regulatory compliance.
• Review laboratory deliverables, case narratives, chains of custody, QA/QC summaries, calibration records, and analytical reports.
• Configure, execute, and maintain EQuIS DQM rules and workflows to support automated data validation, quality assurance, and ongoing monitoring of environmental datasets.
• Evaluate laboratory quality control samples including method blanks, laboratory control samples (LCS), matrix spikes (MS), matrix spike duplicates (MSD), surrogate recoveries, and laboratory duplicates for compliance with project-specific criteria.
• Review detection limits, reporting limits, quantitation limits, and sensitivity requirements to ensure suitability for project objectives and regulatory decision making.
• Evaluate data quality indicators including precision, accuracy, completeness, representativeness, comparability, and sensitivity.
• Apply regulatory and project-specific validation guidelines for soil, groundwater, sediment, soil gas, air, and vapor intrusion data.
• Assign data qualifiers and document validation findings within validation reports and deliverables.
• Support Electronic Data Deliverable (EDD) review and verification activities.
• Collaborate with Environmental Data Managers, laboratories, project teams, and risk assessors to resolve data issues.
• Maintain validation tracking tools, metrics, and project documentation.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, or related discipline.
• Minimum 3-6 years of experience in environmental laboratory data validation or environmental chemistry.
• Strong understanding of analytical chemistry methods and laboratory QA/QC procedures.
• Experience reviewing environmental laboratory data packages and EDDs.
• Working knowledge of environmental contaminants including metals, VOCs, SVOCs, pesticides, PFAS, dioxins, and related analyte groups.
• Laboratory experience in environmental analytical chemistry, including analysis of one or more of the following: OCPs, PCBs, VOCs, SVOCs, metals, dioxins/furans, and PFAS using GC, GC/MS, ICP/ICP-MS, HRGC/HRMS, and LC-MS/MS techniques.
• Knowledge of USEPA, DoD, state, and international validation guidance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data review tools.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and technical writing skills.

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• Experience with EarthSoft EQuIS, EDP, and environmental data management systems.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, or environmental reporting platforms.
• Familiarity with environmental consulting projects and risk assessment workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain standardized data validation procedures, checklists, templates, and reporting tools to support consistent and efficient delivery of data validation services.
• Support preparation of Data Validation Reports (DVRs), Data Usability Summaries (DUS), and technical memoranda documenting validation findings and recommendations.
• Support continuous improvement of validation procedures, templates, and workflows.
• Manage multiple assignments while meeting schedule, quality, and budget expectations.