Job Description

Job Title: Chemist II

Job Duration: 6 Months

Job Location: Artesia, NM 88210

Job Description:

Basic Function:

• Conducts routine and non-routine chemistry/laboratory assignments for the Lab Department under limited supervision.
• May lead the work of others from time-to-time.

Essential Job Duties/Responsibilities: (functions considered essential as defined by ADA)

• Samples and conducts standard tests on raw materials, intermediates, and finished products and may train others to perform standard tests depending on location.
• Ensure testing is carried out as per established methods/procedures.
• Ensures the quality of work through quality assurance testing and documentation.
• Records, reports, and certifies results.
• Diagnoses laboratory equipment malfunctions.
• Solves problems and fixes laboratory equipment and machinery.
• Performs routine maintenance and calibrations on laboratory equipment.
• Creates QA documents and protocols.

May also perform other duties, including:

• Monitors process control of plant streams, product purity and fuel gas composition, liquefied petroleum products, and various levels of Hydrogen.
• Supports other departments in sampling, testing, and compliance monitoring.
• Maintains the lab supplies and equipment (orders supplies).
• Operates Chromatographs.
• Ships samples designated as hazardous.
• Monitors drinking water streams for compliance.
• Checks emissions compliance (state certified).
• Provides support to operations with product blending.
• Develops new methods/procedures.
• Works with outside testing laboratories to coordinate special requests and compliance testing.

Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor, as determined from time to time in

their sole and complete discretion.

• Leads the development and implementation of security architecture standards and guidelines.
• Participates in and leads architecture reviews and ensures architecture adherence, facilitates security risk trade-off discussions, and tracks architecture deviations.
• Facilitates and improves the architectural decision-making process, including assessment of technology options. Leads the resolution of complex IT/OT security architectural challenges and conflicts.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends and evaluate their applicability to the organization’s needs and drafts risk-aware adoption plans.
• Promote best practices in technology development, integration, and architecture within the team and the broader organization.
• Identify potential risks in the solution design and architecture and develop mitigation strategies.

Experience Required:

• A minimum of three years of job-related experience is required.

Required skills:

• Working knowledge of laboratory testing and ability to apply this knowledge.
• Working knowledge of petroleum products and testing.
• Depending on location, it may require the ability to train and lead the work of others.
• Ability to effectively communicate with others, both written and verbal communication, ability to perform advanced mathematical calculations, intermediate reading and writing skills.

Supervisory/Managerial responsibilities:

• May lead the work of others regularly.

Education level:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Chemistry or related field is required.

Work Conditions:

• Office based with travel up to 10% of time by land and air is required.
• Petroleum refinery, warehouse/plant environment, and out-of-doors environment including but not limited to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, rotating equipment, fumes or airborne particles, working in confined spaces and exposure to the risk of electrical shock.
• Subject to all temperatures, weather and varying road conditions.

Physical Requirements :

• Job conditions require standing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, reaching or grasping and wearing personal protective equipment (beards not permitted).
• Job conditions may require walking, sitting, twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, talking or hearing, lifting and/or carrying up to 10lbs, pushing and/or pulling up to 10lbs, strenuous physical activity, and perceiving color differences.

Environmental, Health, & Safety Responsibilities:

• Our primary values at Company are: We put health and safety first; We care about the environment.
• All company employees are expected to work safely every day and be safety & environmental leaders.
• Stops and/or reports any unsafe work or conditions.
• Follows safety & environmental policies and procedures.
• Supports safety & environmental goals and initiatives.
• Participate in safety & environmental meetings, training, emergency drills and hazard recognition programs.
• Reports all accidents, injuries and near misses, and participates in associated investigations.
• Participates in industrial hygiene, medical surveillance and behavior-based safety programs.

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at [email protected] if you require reasonable accommodation.

California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting [email protected].

LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.

At SPECTRA FORCE , we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $38.50/hr.

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