Project Chemist

Business Area:

Environmental, Health & Safety

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you’ll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas.

You’ll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy.

Environmental, Health & Safety

The Project Chemist provides advanced analytical chemistry support for CF Industries manufacturing, distribution, product quality, and technical service organizations. The position serves as a technical resource for analytical investigations, unknown material identification, method development, laboratory continuous improvement initiatives, and complex data interpretation. Working closely with manufacturing locations, engineers, quality personnel, and laboratory teams across the CF network, the Project Chemist applies scientific expertise to support process reliability, product quality, troubleshooting investigations, and laboratory excellence initiatives.

The position contributes to Laboratory Council projects and laboratory standardization efforts while helping advance analytical capabilities throughout the organization.

• Perform advanced chemical analysis of process, product, environmental, and special investigation samples.
• Provide analytical support for reliability investigations, contamination studies, product quality events, and root cause analyses supporting manufacturing and distribution operations.
• Identify unknown materials, contaminants, and process deposits utilizing appropriate analytical techniques and scientific interpretation.
• Collaborate with engineers and technical personnel to provide analytical solutions to operational challenges.

• Develop, validate, improve, and document analytical methods supporting CF manufacturing and product quality objectives.
• Evaluate emerging analytical technologies and recommend improvements to laboratory capabilities.
• Coordinate analytical projects with external laboratories, academic institutions, equipment manufacturers, and technical consultants as needed.
• Support implementation of new analytical techniques and instrumentation.

• Participate in cross-site projects focused on laboratory standardization and analytical consistency.
• Contribute to development and maintenance of laboratory technical standards, guidance documents, and training materials.
• Share technical knowledge and lessons learned with laboratory personnel across the CF network.

• Analyze complex analytical datasets and identify trends, correlations, and opportunities for improvement.
• Utilize laboratory information systems, statistical tools, and business software to manage and communicate results.
• Present project findings and technical recommendations to stakeholders.