
Lab Pack Chemist I
San Jose, CAJob$33/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed today
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The Lab Pack Chemist handles hazardous waste materials, prepares shipments, and performs onsite services such as collection, sampling, and safety inspections. The role requires an associate’s degree in general science, a driver’s license with a clear record, and a CDL B obtained within six months of starting. It involves moderate to extensive travel, including 20% overnight travel, and frequent lifting of materials exceeding 55 pounds.
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Veolia has acquired Clean Earth. As Clean Earth completes its integration into Veolia, recruiting and hiring for this role is being managed in partnership with the Clean Earth talent acquisition team.
Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Handles hazardous materials including inventorying, identifying, segregating, and packaging waste material in accordance with Lab Pack policies, procedures and practices and all applicable regulations.
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Perform onsite services which may include waste collection, consolidation (i.e., bulking, repackaging), sampling, safety/compliance inspections, and other related activities required by the customer/contract.
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Assists other business groups, i.e., Depack, Retail and HHW, for both internally and onsite as needed. • Preparing shipment of packaged waste by inspecting, labeling, marking, and loading into the transport vehicle
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Properly completes documentation including shipping papers, Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR’s), evaluations/certifications and other required documentation in accordance with appropriate regulations and procedures.
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May require obtaining and maintaining a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with Hazmat Endorsement to legally operate Clean Earth vehicles necessary for transporting personnel and waste to and from customers’ job locations.
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Follows, understands, and promotes by example, all Health & Safety /Job Safety Analysis (JSA’s) procedures including development of on-site Health &Safety plans/JSA’s as outlined in the procedures and policies.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
Basic Requirements:
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An associate’s degree in general science (BS preferred) is required for the Lab Pack Chemist.
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Driver’s License with clear record
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Moderate to extensive travel with 20% overnight travel
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Physical ability to lift and move material of various weights frequently exceeding 55 lbs.
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Basic understanding of chemistry through general chemistry or biology
This position requires a CDL B to be obtained within a 6-month period from your start date. Failure to obtain a CDL B within the 6-month period will mean you are no longer eligible for the Lab Pack Chemist position.
This position is also contingent upon successful completion of a DOT physical, DOT Drug Screen and any other DOL or company requirements.
Pay Range - $33.00 per hour
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, commencing no later than January 1, 2027, benefits package will include participation in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
How this job compares
Set against the 502 open Chemist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$33/hr
- California median$29–30/hr24 hourly ranges
- US median$25–28/hr141 hourly ranges
This rate, $33/hr, is 11% above the California median midpoint ($30/hr) — in the middle half of Chemist hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 47 open Chemist jobs in California and 502 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Clean Harbors5 open
- Enviri Corporation (this employer)4 open
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- Experience
- Chemist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 5 years (297 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 249 of the 502 open Chemist jobs (50%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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