SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 95,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,400 offices and laboratories around the world. SGS provides an extensive portfolio of testing services to the oil and gas, environmental, agricultural, industrial, life sciences, consumer products and minerals sectors from a network of over 700 laboratories around the world.
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Chemist – Environmental Lab
Primary Responsibilities
The Environmental Chemist has overall responsibility for the operation and all the functions associated with the Environmental Laboratory.
Accountabilities include performance management, the effectiveness and efficiencies of the operation including the bottom line of the laboratory, overall quality, external customer service and support and expected growth of the business.
The Environmental Chemist has overall accountability for maintaining laboratory compliance to ISO/IEC 17025 and delivers results to meet both the customers and the regulators requirements.

Responsibilities:
• Promotes and Monitors all aspects of Environment, Health and Safety in the workplace.
• Promotes the highest level of quality and ensures that the QMS is part of the day-to-day operation with all policies and procedures followed as documented.
Accountable for the designing, co-ordinating and executing of training programs that are consistent with management objectives including quality system awareness, continuous technical improvement and personnel performance reviews.
• Co-ordinates the programs for maintaining production and quality targets, and ensuring optimum staff levels to achieve production, quality and financial targets consistent with management objectives.
• Responsible to provide technical support or direction for customer services and external clients.
• Provides objectives, performance reviews and a leadership that engages the personnel in teamwork, productivity and quality.
• Ensure active participation of group approved proficiency programs
• Perform analysis of environmental samples in line with approved methods which shall satisfy the requirements of the customer and ISO/IEC 17025.
• Prior to report, to evaluate analytical results to ensure that all method specific Quality Control criteria are met.
• Report results in accordance to the requirements of IEC/ISO17025
• Perform method modification and development where such changes are required to meet changes in customer requirements.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by Management.
Profile:
• Requisite qualification of at least a University Degree in the Sciences or similar. Strong organisational, verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Relevant experience of at least three (3) years in the analytical services industry specifically related to Mining and Environmental Industries.