Chemist Intern

As a Chemist Intern, you will lead and support projects from initiation through completion. 

Working alongside cross-functional teams in engineering, operations, and quality assurance, you will gain hands-on experience optimizing safety standards, refining manufacturing processes, updating laboratory standard operating procedures (SOPs), and driving continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day support for monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining the laboratory.
• Perform routine testing on raw materials, in-process, and finished materials using analytical instrumentation and wet chemistry methodologies.
• Perform non-routine testing in support of process and chemistry troubleshooting.
• Perform instrument validations and calibrations.
• Calculate chemical adjustments for in-process material.
• Document observations, author technical reports, and present findings to key stakeholders.
• Prepare product and raw material samples for shipment to other Veolia laboratories.
• Actively participate in Laboratory Standard Operating Procedure Reviews.
• Provide data analysis and interpretation of analytical results.
• Help research chemical reactions.
• Perform other duties as required by management.
• Adhere strictly to all Veolia policies and Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) guidelines.

Specific Projects (subject to changes based on needs to facility):

• Assist in the execution of Management of Change (MOC) projects relating to Quality and Laboratory.
• Conduct bench-scale chemistry experiments under the guidance of the Quality Manager.
• Learn and support QC testing
• Formalize site Laboratory Instrument Calibration Program.
• Deliver a capstone presentation to site leadership at the end of the internship term, detailing project outcomes and key learnings.

Outcomes:
The Chemist Intern can expect to gain practical experience in a broad range of areas
such as:

• Design and execute technical solutions aligned with core business objectives.
• Develop project management skills, project planning abilities, and independent problem-solving skills.
• Translate academic knowledge and chemical principles into industrial manufacturing applications.
• Gain exposure to real-world operational and technical troubleshooting in a chemical production environment.