Senior Chemist (Quality Assurance, Environmental))

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Leidos is seeking  an experienced Senior Chemist to make a difference for our Federal customers in environmental restoration, by supporting collection and ensuring quality of field data.

Due to contract requirements; U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Residency is required.

This is a telework position. When presence in the office is needed for meetings and in-person training, work can be performed at one of the following locations: Cleveland, Ohio; Oak Ridge, TN; St. Louis, MO, Reston, VA, or Seattle, WA. This position also could be an office position in one of the locations previously mentioned.

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Your Main Objectives:

• Evaluate lab reports for completeness, assess quality control results, and assign validation flags to reported concentrations based on the validation criteria
• Prepare written narratives to describe validation findings and write quality assurance/quality control reports
• Prepare sample information for field work including database setup of sample IDs, labels and chain-of-custody documents, and evaluate compliance with planning documents
• Develop completion reports to ensure sampling plans are executed in accordance with project requirements
• Prepare the chemistry portions/worksheets of Uniform Federal Policy for Quality Assurance Project Plans (UFP-QAPPs)
• Query data in response to project management needs and prepare presentation tables for various reporting requirements; evaluate accuracy of final data relative to the reported data
• Track samples from collection through laboratory receipt, analysis, and reporting, and evaluate documents for accuracy and completeness
• Perform validation of laboratory data packages of inorganic, organic, or radiological data received from analytical laboratories
• Entering data into various internal databases as well as ERPIMS, ADR.net, FUDSChem and perform quality control checks on data entry
• Routine communication and coordination with data management staff to ensure overall project objectives are satisfied

What Sets You Apart:

•  B.S. degree in chemistry or other science, and At least 4 years' relevant experience validating environmental chemical analytical data and performing environmental data or database management.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

You Might Also Have:

• At least 8 years' relevant chemistry experience in environmental consulting.
• Experience in environmental field work or environmental analysis.
• Experience with environmental data validation practices/policies/procedures especially the Department of Defense Quality Systems Manual and/or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Functional Guidelines for Data Review.
• Experience with radiological, inorganic, and organic laboratory methods, QA/QC elements, and record keeping.
• Experience with data management software such as MS Access and SQL; or environmental databases such as ERPIMS, EQuIS, ADR.net or FUDSChem.
• Familiarity with laboratory instrumentation systems.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.