Senior Chemist I: Nuclear Lab Lead & Method Innovator

Savannah River Mission Co; Aiken, Northern (SC, KY); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Health Insurance

HSA

Telehealth

Dental

Vision

FSAs

Paid time off

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

EAP

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC) seeks a Senior Chemist I to be based in Aiken, South Carolina, at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The role provides technical oversight for laboratories and leads analytical method development and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities include interpreting lab results, guiding equipment and procedure improvements, ensuring quality control, and training laboratory staff. The position requires experience in a nuclear facility or radioactive materials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in chemistry or related science and professional related work experience.
• Experience working in a nuclear facility or in a laboratory using radioactive material.

Responsibilities

• Interprets and evaluates lab results to ensure tolerance and acceptability within required analytical limits.
• Recommends improvements in analytical equipment, procedures, techniques, and method development.
• Provides quality control specifications to ensure process consistency, quality, and optimal yield performance.
• May perform qualitative and quantitative analyses on liquid, solid, and sludge samples for organic, inorganic and/or metal constituents.
• May run measurement control program across multiple analytical services for quality assessments/audits.
• May prepare technical reports based on the interpretation of analyzed data.
• May interface with off-site vendors, STR’s, and procurement to establish service subcontracts to maintain lab instrumentation.
• Assists in the training development and training of lab personal on proper techniques for operating instrumentation.
• Provides technical leadership to less experienced chemists and technicians.
• Leads shift group to conduct analytical work with highly radioactive materials.
• Acts as lead person or technical advisor on small projects.
• May function as the person-in-charge for preview/review of the safety and hazard controls in different laboratory.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Technical oversight

Analytical oversight

Training development

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in chemistry

Tools

IC

ICP-MS

GC-FID

GC-MS

HPLC-MS

TIC/TOC

Autotitrator

Mercury analyzer

Job description

Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC) seeks a Senior Chemist I to be based in Aiken, South Carolina, at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The role provides technical oversight for laboratories and leads analytical method development and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities include interpreting lab results, guiding equipment and procedure improvements, ensuring quality control, and training laboratory staff. The position requires experience in a nuclear facility or radioactive materials.