Senior Laboratory Scientist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Laboratory Scientist📍

Location:
United Arab Emirates (Remote) 🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time 💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior 🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us
We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined project management, technical excellence, quality assurance, risk management, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Laboratory Services, Materials Testing, Environmental Management, Quality Assurance, Health and Safety, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, and Executive Leadership to maintain reliable testing processes, accurate scientific data, regulatory compliance, and consistent quality standards across our operations. The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Senior Laboratory Scientist to oversee laboratory testing, scientific analysis, quality control, analytical method development, equipment management, data integrity, and technical reporting. The successful candidate will provide senior-level scientific expertise, ensure the accuracy and reliability of laboratory results, maintain compliance with applicable standards, and support continuous improvement across laboratory operations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong analytical skills, scientific knowledge, attention to detail, and the ability to coordinate laboratory personnel, manage testing priorities, investigate anomalous results, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. Experience in laboratory quality management systems, scientific instrumentation, method validation, technical documentation, and regulatory compliance will be highly valued.

Key Responsibilities
• Oversee daily laboratory operations to ensure accurate, reliable, timely, and reproducible analytical results.
• Plan, prioritize, and coordinate laboratory testing activities according to project requirements, sample volumes, turnaround times, and operational priorities.
• Perform and supervise laboratory analyses in accordance with approved methods, technical specifications, and documented procedures.
• Review laboratory requests, sample requirements, testing objectives, and analytical specifications before work commences.
• Select appropriate analytical methods based on sample characteristics, testing objectives, required detection limits, and applicable standards.
• Develop, review, and optimize laboratory testing procedures to improve accuracy, repeatability, sensitivity, and efficiency.
• Conduct complex scientific investigations and provide technical guidance on analytical challenges.
• Interpret laboratory results using appropriate scientific principles, statistical methods, and analytical criteria.
• Review calculations, measurements, instrument outputs, and analytical findings before results are finalized.
• Identify unusual results, unexpected trends, analytical inconsistencies, and potential sources of measurement error.
• Investigate out-of-specification results, out-of-trend findings, and other laboratory anomalies in accordance with approved procedures.
• Conduct root-cause analyses to identify technical, procedural, equipment-related, or personnel-related factors affecting laboratory performance.
• Recommend corrective and preventive actions to address recurring testing issues and quality deficiencies.
• Ensure laboratory testing activities comply with approved standard operating procedures and applicable quality requirements.
• Develop, review, and maintain standard operating procedures, analytical methods, work instructions, and laboratory protocols.
• Support analytical method development, verification, validation, transfer, and implementation.
• Establish appropriate acceptance criteria, performance parameters, and quality controls for laboratory methods.
• Evaluate method precision, accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, linearity, range, robustness, and detection limits where applicable.
• Ensure analytical methods remain suitable for their intended use and comply with relevant technical and regulatory expectations.
• Prepare validation protocols, validation reports, technical assessments, and supporting documentation.
• Implement quality control procedures to monitor analytical performance and identify deviations.
• Review control samples, blanks, duplicates, reference materials, calibration checks, and other quality control indicators.
• Ensure laboratory results meet predefined acceptance criteria before approval or release.
• Coordinate proficiency testing, interlaboratory comparisons, and other activities used to evaluate laboratory competence.
• Investigate unsatisfactory proficiency testing results and implement appropriate improvement measures.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of laboratory quality management systems.
• Maintain laboratory practices aligned with applicable ISO/IEC 17025 requirements and other relevant standards, where applicable.
• Support accreditation activities, quality assessments, internal audits, external inspections, and technical evaluations.
• Prepare audit evidence, analytical records, method documentation, equipment records, and quality control reports.
• Address audit findings, document nonconformities, and monitor corrective actions through completion.
• Ensure laboratory records are complete, accurate, traceable, legible, and retained in accordance with established requirements.
• Maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and traceability of scientific data and laboratory documentation.
• Apply appropriate data review and verification practices to identify transcription errors, calculation discrepancies, and unexplained data changes.
• Ensure electronic laboratory records are maintained in approved systems with suitable access controls and audit trails.
• Protect sensitive laboratory information, research findings, client data, and confidential project documentation.
• Operate, supervise, and troubleshoot laboratory instruments and analytical equipment.
• Maintain competence in relevant technologies, including analytical balances, spectrophotometers, chromatographic systems, microscopes, automated analyzers, and other specialized instruments as required.
• Coordinate instrument installation, qualification, calibration, verification, maintenance, and performance checks.
• Establish equipment maintenance schedules and ensure required servicing is completed on time.
• Maintain accurate equipment inventories, calibration certificates, maintenance logs, and qualification records.
• Identify instrument malfunctions, performance drift, and other conditions that may affect analytical reliability.
• Coordinate instrument repairs, technical support, and replacement activities with authorized service providers.
• Verify that equipment is fit for purpose before it is used for testing or critical measurements.
• Ensure samples are received, identified, registered, stored, transported, and processed according to approved procedures.
• Establish sample acceptance criteria and verify that submitted materials meet testing requirements.
• Maintain sample traceability throughout receipt, preparation, analysis, storage, and disposal.
• Investigate sample discrepancies, labeling errors, damaged containers, contamination risks, and chain-of-custody concerns.
• Ensure sample preparation techniques are appropriate for the analytical method and sample characteristics.
• Monitor sample storage conditions, environmental controls, and holding times where applicable.
• Coordinate sample retention and disposal in accordance with approved procedures and relevant safety requirements.
• Prevent cross-contamination through appropriate sample handling, workspace organization, cleaning, and equipment practices.
• Ensure laboratory work areas remain clean, organized, controlled, and suitable for the testing activities performed.
• Monitor environmental conditions, including temperature, humidity, ventilation, and other relevant parameters where required.
• Identify and control potential contamination sources that may affect sample integrity or analytical results.
• Enforce laboratory health, safety, and environmental procedures across all assigned activities.
• Ens