Data Validation, Chemists

ERM is the world’s largest specialist consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organisations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet. 

Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes. 

As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery.

Why this role matters?

As a Environmental Chemist - Data Validation, you will support ERM's global consulting delivery by performing environmental laboratory data review, analytical validation, quality , and data usability assessments to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and defensibility of environmental datasets. You will work within the Data Analytics & Visualization (DAV) service line, partnering with project managers, environmental scientists, risk assessors, laboratories, environmental data managers, and regional consulting teams to deliver high quality, compliant, and decision-ready data for environmental and projects. This role is critical to ensuring regulatory compliance, maintaining data quality standards, reducing project risk, and enabling reliable environmental decision-making across global client engagements.

What your impact is?

• Perform Stage 1, 2A, 2B, 3, and project-specific validation of environmental analytical laboratory data. Experience in Stage 4 validation is considered an asset.

• Prepare, review, and implement Quality Project Plans (QAPPs) and Data Quality Objectives (DQOs) to ensure environmental data quality, usability, and regulatory compliance.

• Review laboratory deliverables, case narratives, chains of custody, QA/QC summaries, calibration records, and analytical reports.

• Configure, execute, and maintain EQuIS DQM rules and workflows to support automated data validation, quality , and ongoing monitoring of environmental datasets.

• Evaluate laboratory quality control samples including method blanks, laboratory control samples (LCS), matrix spikes (MS), matrix spike duplicates (MSD), surrogate recoveries, and laboratory duplicates for compliance with project-specific criteria.

• Review detection limits, reporting limits, quantitation limits, and sensitivity requirements to ensure suitability for project objectives and regulatory decision making.

• Evaluate data quality indicators including precision, accuracy, completeness, representativeness, comparability, and sensitivity.

• Apply regulatory and project-specific validation guidelines for soil, groundwater, sediment, soil gas, air, and vapor intrusion data.

• Assign data qualifiers and document validation findings within validation reports and deliverables.

• Support Electronic Data Deliverable (EDD) review and verification activities.

• Collaborate with Environmental Data Managers, laboratories, project teams, and risk assessors to resolve data issues.

• Maintain validation tracking tools, metrics, and project documentation.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, or related discipline.

• Minimum 3-6 years of experience in environmental laboratory data validation or environmental chemistry.

• Strong understanding of analytical chemistry methods and laboratory QA/QC procedures.

• Experience reviewing environmental laboratory data packages and EDDs.

• Working knowledge of environmental contaminants including metals, VOCs, SVOCs, pesticides, PFAS, dioxins, and related analyte groups.

• Laboratory experience in environmental analytical chemistry, including analysis of one or more of the following: OCPs, PCBs, VOCs, SVOCs, metals, dioxins/furans, and PFAS using GC, GC/MS, ICP/ICP-MS, HRGC/HRMS, and LC-MS/MS techniques.

• Knowledge of USEPA, DoD, state, and international validation guidance.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data review tools.

• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and technical writing skills.

Preferred skills & competencies

• Experience with EarthSoft EQuIS, EDP, and environmental data management systems.

• Experience with SQL, Power BI, or environmental reporting platforms.

• Familiarity with environmental consulting projects and risk assessment workflows.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain standardized data validation procedures, checklists, templates, and reporting tools to support consistent and efficient delivery of data validation services.

• Support preparation of Data Validation Reports (DVRs), Data Usability Summaries (DUS), and technical memoranda documenting validation findings and recommendations.

• Support continuous improvement of validation procedures, templates, and workflows.

• Manage multiple assignments while meeting schedule, quality, and budget expectations.