Laboratory Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Environmental Specialist 1

Date Posted: 11/4/2025

Location: Calera, AL 35040

Job Type: Contract Full Time

Immediate W2 contract position available in Calera, AL
Estimated Duration: 3 Years

Job Description / Desired Qualifications:

• Environmental Test Lab – Lab Reporting & Quality Control Group (QA/QC)
• The Environmental Laboratory provides analytical services used for regulatory compliance, contract specification verification and asset protection.
• This position provides support for sample receiving and customer kits, essential to ensure customer expectations are met for various sample categories.
• Routine responsibilities include cleaning sample containers, building sample kits, and assisting project managers with sample receipt. Other duties may include providing support for other positions or other areas of the lab, as needed.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Work safely, identify and implement corrective actions for unsafe working conditions.
• Consistently maintain attention to detail while performing all job duties.
• Assist QC project managers with sample receipt, as needed (e.g., checking pH, labeling samples)
• Build sample kits for customers and maintain a clean supply of transformer oil syringes.
• Maintain excellent lines of communication with customers and co-workers.
• Partner with employees, management, and customers to effectively manage analytical and quality control procedures that enable the lab to provide cost effective, timely and accurate services.
• Partner with laboratory sections to ensure all quality control processes are followed to maintain the integrity and effectiveness of the lab’s quality management system.

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (chemistry, biology, environmental science or related field) with a minimum of 15 semester hours of chemistry is preferred.
• Experience with quality control requirements for analytical methods is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Demonstrated attention to detail is required.
• Ability to develop relationships with a variety of internal/external work groups and customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand technical procedures.
• Ability to detect problems and work with others to solve.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines.
• Computer skills - Microsoft Office suite with accurate and efficient typing (keyboarding) skills.
• Understanding OSHA laboratory safety requirements of 29 CFR 1910.
• Supplemental worker will be required to have the following PPE to perform job duties: safety glasses, disposable nitrile gloves, lab coat.

Behavioral Attributes:

• Customer focus.
• Ability to produce high quality work in an efficient manner.
• Self-motivated with high degree of initiative and personal responsibility.
• Build positive relationships as a team player.

Assignment Schedule:

• The assignment will require the candidate to work 5 days in the office, Monday-Friday.
• The hours are somewhat flexible, allowing for the following schedules: 7am – 4pm, 8am – 5pm, or a flex schedule with 9 hours Monday through Thursday and 4 hours on Friday.

Company Description

We provide supplemental employees to the region's most sought after power projects. We credit our success to the commitment we show to our job applicants. E Group Recruiters are here to make sure your job search experience is the best it can be. Our recruiters are experts in knowing what the client manager is looking for in a resume, what bill rate the market will bear, and how to make your application stand out among the rest. Our personal touch continues even after we've found the perfect job for you. All full-time employees are eligible to pay for full health and retirement benefits including BC/BS health and dental insurance, life and disability insurances, and 401K with an immediately vested match is available. We have a dedicated team to guide you through these benefits.

Company Description

We provide supplemental employees to the region's most sought after power projects. We credit our success to the commitment we show to our job applicants. E Group Recruiters are here to make sure your job search experience is the best it can be. Our recruiters are experts in knowing what the client manager is looking for in a resume, what bill rate the market will bear, and how to make your application stand out among the rest. Our personal touch continues even after we've found the perfect job for you. All full-time employees are eligible to pay for full health and retirement benefits including BC/BS health and dental insurance, life and disability insurances, and 401K with an immediately vested match is available. We have a dedicated team to guide you through these benefits.