Laboratory Manager

Job Description

Main Accountabilities:

The Laboratory Manager is responsible for leading and managing all MAGMA laboratory operations at the BeAAT and NORM Plants, ensuring accurate characterization and analysis of hazardous and radiological waste in full compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements. The role oversees laboratory staff, analytical performance, and quality systems while ensuring safe and reliable laboratory operations.

The Laboratory Manager plays a critical role in supporting operational decision-making through timely, high-quality analytical data, enabling effective waste reception, acceptance, segregation, routing, treatment, and disposal. This includes contributing to the optimization of treatment processes and development of feed and blending recipes for incineration and TDU units based on waste characteristics and available waste streams.

Acting as a key interface between laboratory, platform operations, waste reception, operations, HSE, and commercial teams, the role ensures strong cross-departmental coordination and alignment. The Laboratory Manager drives optimization, innovation, and R&D initiatives to improve laboratory efficiency, platform integration, treatment performance, cost effectiveness, and sustainable hazardous waste management solutions.

Detailed Job Description:

1. Laboratory Operations Management:

   • Lead and manage daily laboratory operations across the BeAAT and NORM Plants, ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable testing and characterization of hazardous and radiological waste to support waste acceptance, segregation, treatment, and disposal decisions.

   • Plan, organize, and control laboratory activities, including sampling coordination, test scheduling, workload distribution, and prioritization of analyses based on operational needs and regulatory timelines.

   • Perform and supervise pre-acceptance testing and waste characterization to support the sales and commercial teams during waste pre-acceptance, quotation preparation, and selection of appropriate treatment lines.

   • Provide laboratory input to define suitable treatment pathways based on waste characteristics and regulatory constraints.

   • Develop, implement, and continuously improve laboratory protocols, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and safety guidelines in compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.

   • Ensure laboratory equipment, analytical instruments, and monitoring systems are properly maintained, calibrated, and validated, with full traceability of calibration, maintenance, and performance records.

   • Oversee the execution of routine, non-routine, and investigational analyses, ensuring data integrity, repeatability, and technical validity of test results.

   • Manage laboratory performance indicators (turnaround time, quality metrics, non-conformances), identify gaps, and implement corrective and preventive actions to improve efficiency and reliability.

   • Ensure effective coordination between laboratory teams and operational stakeholders to provide timely analytical results that support waste reception, platform segregation, treatment optimization, and process stability.

   • Maintain readiness for audits, inspections, and regulatory reviews by ensuring laboratory operations are fully documented, controlled, and compliant at all times.

   • Promote a strong culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement within the laboratory, ensuring safe handling of hazardous and radiological materials and adherence to best laboratory practices.

2. Operational Interface & Cross-Departmental Coordination

   • Coordinate closely with the waste reception team for both bulk and packaged waste, ensuring proper sampling, testing, and waste acceptance decisions.

   • Act as the key laboratory interface with with reception team for Salesforce, HAZMAT to support waste acceptance, classification, and routing.

   • Manage the laboratory–platform, ensuring effective coordination with the segregation platform team and reception/unloading teams to support safe and compliant waste handling.

   • Provide timely analytical feedback to operations through routine analysis of samples from various processes and activities, supporting treatment decisions, waste routing, and process optimization.

   • Propose and optimize waste blending/feeding recipes for incineration and TDU operations based on available waste streams and their key characteristics (e.g., calorific value, sulfur content, moisture, ash, halogens), ensuring stable operation, compliance, and cost-effective treatment.

   • Ensure smooth communication and alignment between laboratory, operations, HSE, and commerc