About Us | Employment Opportunities
Updated: December 2009
Position: Senior GC/MS Environmental Chemist (full-time, salaried, exempt)
Location: Madison, WI (30 to 50% travel commitment)
ECCS is a rapidly growing, independent environmental analytical testing service company. We are a flat organization and strive to be a place where people simply “love” to come to work. Our operations are described in detail throughout the pages of this website. We provide testing for the environmental investigation and restoration community, i.e., soil and groundwater for classical organic and inorganic constituents. Our clients range from very small, niche firms to Engineering News Record® (ENR) Top 50 engineers and scientists.
Our NELAC-accredited mobile laboratories have provided fast, effective, and reliable infield analytical services at more than 1,000 site investigation or remediation projects throughout the U.S. while serving the industrial, commercial and agricultural chemical marketplaces. Our success has been built on the knowledge and experience of seasoned environmental professionals.
Our chemists are environmental laboratory professionals who are interested in providing solution-oriented and quality objective-oriented service to our clients. These are professionals who have the skills to be the entire laboratory staff (for example, in a mobile laboratory environment) and at the same time be an integral member of our client's team. You will need to be creative and be able to think and make logical decisions on your feet to handle the unexpected while you are in the field.
Currently we are seeking an experienced GC/MS environmental chemist with 10+ years environmental laboratory experience to join our team in Madison, Wisconsin. Responsibilities include traveling to field project sites and performing mobile/onsite environmental testing services. Our expectation is that all field chemists travel approximately 30 to 50 percent of the time on an annual basis. The remainder of the time will be spent in Madison supporting the fixed-base laboratory, cross-training, and supporting our overall operations. Travel commitments typically are required for less than one week to up to two-week rotations.
Our compensation package is extensive including a very competitive salary, IRA, profit-sharing, health, dental, comp-time, personal time, flex time, and the ability to work at a growing, flat organization with no barriers to personal or professional growth.
Job Description
As senior chemist, you will be asked to perform as Lead Chemist for our mobile laboratory operations, as well as support testing obligations in our fixed-base laboratory. If you do not have experience in a mobile laboratory environment, you should envision being required to wear many hats. You will be required to drive the truck/trailer combination to the jobsite, and once onsite be sample entry, sample prep and extraction, analyst, QA manager, metrology/ maintenance department, many times a team leader, and most importantly the client services and marketing representative, all rolled into one. This responsibility is not for the weak at heart.
Duties
- Interacts and represents our company with clients at both a business and casual level.
- Manages staff in a project team leader role.
- Maintains a quality laboratory and working environment.
- Prepares and analyzes soil and water samples for VOCs and SVOCs in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Keeps equipment operating by following operating procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance.
- Documents information by maintaining daily logs and equipment record books.
- Resolves problems by examining and evaluating situation, and selecting corrective steps.
Skills/Qualifications
- 8 to 15 plus years environmental laboratory experience.
- Instrumental experience with GC/MS (ChemStation and Enviroquant).
- Experience with HPLC, LC/MS/MS, and other instrumentation capabilities a plus.
- Computer skills including Excel/Word/Internet/e-mail; LIMS experience a plus.
- Solid written and verbal communication capabilities
- Quick thinker and logical; calm under crisis; willing to travel up to 50 percent of the time
Contact Nick Nigro at 608-221-8700, or nkn@eccsmobilelab.com for more details.
