Job description
Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science, and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate diverse teams and encourage collaboration in an equitable and inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership, and flexibility. That’s how we make a difference to our clients, people, and the planet.
Woodard & Curran has an opportunity for an Environmental Chemist capable of performing environmental verification and validation of inorganic and organic chemical analytical data. This role will conduct data validation and associated activities in support of an environmental remediation program for a group of clients. The position will employ multiple chemical techniques and validation/verification methodologies on environmental samples related to site characterization, site remediation, environmental permits, effluent waters, waste disposal, and general project support. The individual will utilize data management systems to manage samples/data from beginning to end and will write quality assurance/quality control reports.
Who are we looking for:
The selected candidate will report directly to Project Managers in our National Environmental Remediation Practice and work directly with a diverse and talented group of engineers and scientists at the firm. The ideal candidate is a mid-level chemist with strong technical experience delivering high-quality remediation and consulting services to projects located across the firm’s geography and core markets. The successful candidate will be an energetic, motivated, growth-oriented professional with an ability to work independently as well as lead multi-disciplined project teams.
Candidate should be a self-starter and possess strong analytical, field, and writing skills to support a wide range of science and engineering projects. Candidates must also have excellent communication skills combined with leadership ability, a positive attitude, and ability to work both independently and within teams.
Offering Flexible Virtual or Hybrid Work Schedule
Travel:
This position may require occasional travel to support project needs across our nationwide office network, including Montana, California, New York/New Jersey, and New England locations. Travel may involve field support, laboratory audits, project meetings, or training sessions. While most work can often be completed remotely or from a local office, candidates should be open to short-term travel as needed to support project timelines and client requirements.
What’s in it for you:
- Direct involvement in impactful environmental remediation projects that address complex chemical contamination challenges across diverse industries and geographies.
- The chance to learn from and contribute to the remediation technical expertise of a well-established, privately held, national environmental consulting firm.
- Access to advanced analytical tools, field methods, and data interpretation techniques that support cutting-edge environmental chemistry applications.
- Increased opportunities for professional development through higher visibility in the marketplace, internal presentations fostering knowledge sharing, professional association membership, speaking engagements, and publication opportunities.
- Flexible work environment and competitive benefits.
- Strong bonus potential
Just to name a few, these projects may include:
- Several high-priority federal Superfund sites are located nationwide.
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) sites where laboratory analytical validation supports environmental compliance and corrective actions.
- Numerous state-led remediation sites where groundwater, soil, and air sampling are used to assess environmental impact.
- In these settings, the chemist’s role is to ensure the reliability, accuracy, and defensibility of analytical results through laboratory data validation, often in compliance with EPA or state-specific guidance (e.g., EPA CLP or regional data validation guidelines).
What will you be doing at Woodard & Curran?
- An Environmental Chemist will assist with environmental/engineering tasks for site investigation and remediation projects. Position responsibilities will support the characterization of contaminated sites, remediation system design and operation, system monitoring, data management/tracking and reporting. Data management, report writing and interaction with project staff will play an important role in the candidate’s success. Potential assignments in this role may include:
- Review and validate laboratory data packages by United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) guidance to ensure compliance with published analytical methods and usability of environmental data.
- Collaborate and review on environmental project QAPPs
- Compose, review, and critique technical reports
- Upload laboratory analytical data to specific client and regulatory databases
- Assist with and prepare portions of written reports, tables, spreadsheets and presentations
- Prepare technical memoranda and white papers to be included in client deliverables.
- Implement innovation and automation tools produced by the team.
- Task management: Manage workloads assigned by chemistry staff within stipulated time. Should be flexible with working hours to support other geographical regions
- Proficient in stage 2 data validation. Experience in stage 3 validation is a value add for this role, but not mandatory.
- The project chemist will support quality assurance/quality control, data management, data analysis, and various analytical chemistry aspects of environmental investigations for our clients.
- The candidate will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, developing their technical skills as a chemist while exploring new interests as well.
- Candidate should be a self-starter and possess strong technical and writing skills to support a wide range of science and engineering projects. A successful candidate will also be detail-oriented, have excellent verbal communication skills combined with a positive attitude, and ability to work both independently and within teams.
What You Will Need To Succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Environmental Science, or another related discipline.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in a Quality control laboratory and or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
- Detail-oriented with excellent organizational, writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and time management.
- Must be able to organize and prioritize to accommodate crucial deadlines
- Knowledgeable of computer software programs, including spreadsheets, databases, and other Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Access)
- Experience with inorganic and organic laboratory methods, including PFAS, QA/QC elements, and record keeping.
- Experience with environmental data validation practices/policies/procedure,s especially the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Functional Guidelines for Data Review.
- Experience with environmental databases such as ERPIMS, EQuIS, ADR.net, or FUDSChem, or data management software such as MS Access and SQL.
$60,000 - $85,000 a year
This position’s anticipated pay range is provided, and final salary (exempt) or hourly pay (non-exempt) will be dependent on years of experience, skills, education, and geographic differentials to reflect cost of labor differences between markets. For hybrid employees, the pay range is based on the office they are associated with, while for remote employees, it is based on their home office location.
Group A - $70,000 - $85,000
Group B - $65,000- $85,000
Group C - $60,000 - $80,000
The following examples illustrate how the pay range for the same role can vary by location. Location Group A represents the upper end of the range, Location Group B the middle, and Location Group C the lower end.
Location Group A - Andover, MA (Geo 1, 2, 3); Canton, MA; East Windsor, NJ; Irvine, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Rye Brook, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Walnut Creek, CA.
Location Group B -Middle Range (Geo 4, 5) - Cherry Hill, NJ; Duluth, GA; Lakewood, CO; Middletown, CT; Providence, RI; Sacramento, CA; San Diego, CA; Wayne, PA.
Location Group C - Lower Range (Geo 6,7,8) - Bangor, ME; Bozeman, MT; Butte, MT; Great Falls, MT; Helena, MT; Northampton, MA; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, ME; Tampa, FL
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Benefits & Wellbeing
Retirement Savings:
• 401(k) Pre-tax or Roth Contributions: The company will match equal to 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed; all employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan and are 100% vested in the value of their own contributions and any employer matching contributions.
Time away from work:
• Vacation time is provided to full and part-time regular employees. Vacation is accrued based on the number of hours worked per week as well as prior years of experience.
• Woodard & Curran offers paid sick time to eligible employees who are absent due to their own non-work related illness, injury, or medical procedure.
• Woodard & Curran provides up to 80 hours of Paid Parental Leave for child bonding in a 12-month period.
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance from Sun Life to assist with replacing a portion of your income in the event of non-job-related illness or injury. Eligible employees are automatically enrolled and eligible immediately.
Coverage and support for your needs and well-being:
Personal and Family health: Company offers three medical plan options based on geography; plus HSA and PSA plans are available based on eligibility, additional options include dental and vision plans.
The company provides basic employee group life insurance and AD&D benefits; additional voluntary life insurance for employees and families is available through Sun Life.
WayForward powered by Dario: EAP Program combined with personalized mental health and wellbeing coaching.
LiveWell wellbeing program: credit incentive is available, up to $600 annually – nutrition and fitness reimbursement, and access to the Virgin Pulse wellness platform.
Education: Tuition assistance offers eligible employees up to 100% reimbursement of tuition, books, and fees up to $5250 per year for courses related to the employee’s job or planned career development.
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement
Woodard & Curran is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply. We are committed to ensuring our employment practices are non-discriminatory and based solely on job-related factors. To read our entire Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement, click here. To view the Workplace Discrimination Is Illegal poster and supplement, click here.
If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to apply, please contact Beth Sweitzer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
Woodard & Curran believe that complex teams working together in an equitable, inclusive space provide the best opportunity for achieving our vision of clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. Our success is tied to a culture that embraces our differences so everyone can bring their whole, authentic selves to work. When our people are supported to reach their full potential, we provide the most innovative, sound, and effective solutions.
Non-Solicitation Disclosure:
Please be advised that we do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from recruitment agencies. Any resumes or candidate profiles submitted without a signed contract in place will be considered unsolicited and will not be eligible for any referral fees. Recruitment agencies must have a valid, signed agreement with our company prior to following the submission process to consider potential candidates.
