Field Lab Pack Chemist: Waste Packaging & Compliance

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc.; West Wyomissing (PA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc. is seeking a Lab Pack Chemist to turn complex chemical waste into safe, compliant packaging at customer sites. You’ll identify unknowns, segregate chemicals, and prepare drums for shipment while ensuring regulatory compliance.

This hands-on, field role requires you to lead teams, work directly with customers, and stay within EPA and DOT rules as you move real waste streams through the packing and shipping process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or related field, or a minimum of two years of waste disposal experience.
• Current OSHA 40-hour and DOT Hazardous Materials certifications preferred.
• Ability to pass a respirator qualification test.
• Ability to lift 40 pounds and move 300 pounds drums.
• Willingness to travel for one to two weeks once a quarter.

Responsibilities

• Complying with all health and safety practices and acting safely at all times.
• Performing field work including consolidation, lab packs, and chemical relocations.
• Characterizing, segregating, packing, and labeling waste drums at customer locations.
• Preparing waste drums for pickup and transportation.
• Interfacing directly with clients to understand disposal and packaging requirements.
• Ensuring overall quality control of materials to be shipped.
• Completing administrative and transportation paperwork (packing lists, waste characterization forms, LDR forms, manifests, etc.).
• Working at one or more customer locations up to 40 hours per week.

Skills

Field work

Safety procedures

Documentation

Customer interaction

Education

Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or related field

Waste disposal experience (2+ years)

Job description

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc. is seeking a Lab Pack Chemist to turn complex chemical waste into safe, compliant packaging at customer sites. You’ll identify unknowns, segregate chemicals, and prepare drums for shipment while ensuring regulatory compliance.

This hands-on, field role requires you to lead teams, work directly with customers, and stay within EPA and DOT rules as you move real waste streams through the packing and shipping process.