Environmental Chemist - Tempe, AZ

About RSI

RSI is a dynamic group of companies that has provided services to major federal clients and Fortune 500 engineering and construction companies since 1996. We have experience in complex, highly regulated markets providing environmental, nuclear, construction management, project delivery, and specialty professional services while maintaining an excellent safety record. We offer a full range of benefits including a generous PTO plan, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K (100% match up to 4% eligible compensation) and 100% immediate vesting, basic and supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability.

RSI is headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and is a wholly owned operating company of ASRC Industrial (AIS). AIS is a wholly owned operating company of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC). Through ASRC, we are a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), and we also offer 8(a) options.

RSI is currently recruiting for an Environmental Chemist II, supporting our Environmental Remediation organization. This position is located in Tempe, AZ or San Francisco, CA area.

RSI is seeking a self-starting, motivated Environmental Chemist II to evaluate, select and apply standard scientific procedures and techniques and manage analytical services to address the scope of work on environmental remediation, hazardous waste management, and hazardous building materials assessment and mitigation projects in accordance with Company standards, environmental regulatory criteria, and contractual obligations. This role requires the ability to work independently on assignments requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and judgement to analyze, interpret or make deductions based on varying facts or circumstances.

The role requires the ability to assess data needs, data collection methodology, and field and laboratory analyses. Responsible for preparing project data collection planning and reporting submittals and review of documents prepared by other chemists and scientists.

• Independently or as part of a team plan, coordinate, and monitor work on environmental sampling projects.
• Monitor subcontractor performance against plans and assist in resolving variances from specifications.
• Provide technical support on environmental investigations and remediation projects for remedial treatment technology and emerging contaminants.
• Perform data validation for organic, inorganic, radiological, and MEC analytical methods for multiple disciplines and projects including comparison of data to data quality objectives, or senior review of such validation.
• Complete related documentation (field reports, logs, meeting minutes, online submittal sites), in a timely and accurate manner.
• Prepare technical documents including, but not limited to, Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs), Quality Control Summary Reports (QCSRs), and data usability assessments.
• Provides peer review of SAPs, QAPPs, QCSRs and data usability assessments prepared by another Chemist.
• Organizes and conducts project meetings.
• Perform functions in RSI’s environmental data management system, including writing and/or executing basic SQL queries.

• BS in chemical, environmental, biological sciences, physical sciences or engineering, with at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics (BS in Chemistry preferred)
• Three (3) to Five (5)+ years of full time, post college work experience, including two (2) years of experience in areas of environmental sampling, analytical methods, and analytical testing, data validation, data evaluation, or other environmental services.
• HAZWOPER 40 Hour Certification with current 8 Hour Refresher.
• Continuing education in the field of chemistry is expected.

• Implement Federal EPA, DoD, DOE environmental data quality regulations and guidelines.
• Familiar with environmental industry standard analytical methodologies for determining…