Lab Chemist Intern - Summer 2027
About The Position
Clean Harbors is seeking a Lab Chemist Intern for its Lone Mountain Landfill Facility in Waynoka, Oklahoma, for Summer 2027. This in-person internship provides hands-on experience supporting projects and business priorities across the company’s environmental, energy, and industrial services operations. The internship begins May 17 or May 24, 2027, and runs through August. Interns work alongside experienced professionals and gain practical skills, industry exposure, and insight into potential career paths. The intern will learn laboratory analysis and testing, including metals such as mercury, wet chemistry testing for chlorine and fluoride, facility sample analysis, and use of laboratory instrumentation. The intern will shadow a supervisor and technician and learn about waste management related to analytical procedures, document control, data analysis, and document review, updates, and validation. The role requires maintaining a safe work environment and complying with applicable OSHA regulations and company safety practices.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a degree in biology, chemistry, or another relevant field at an accredited college or university.
- Experience in a laboratory setting.
- Strong interest in learning about the environmental services industry.
- Ability to document, record, and analyze data and information.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a professional team environment.
- Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office or other relevant technical tools.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, climb stairs, bend, stoop, and stand for long hours.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of wastewater, TOC (Total Organic Carbon), ICP instrumentation for metals, wet chemistry, flashpoint, or calorimetry.
Responsibilities
- Comply with safe work practices, policies, and processes, and act safely at all times.
- Learn to analyze metals, including mercury.
- Learn wet chemistry testing, including chlorine and fluoride analysis.
- Learn to analyze facility samples and use GC, IC, ICP, and other analytical laboratory instruments.
- Shadow a supervisor and technician.
- Learn to manage waste generated by analytical procedures.
- Learn document control and data analysis, and review, update, and validate the accuracy of documents.
- Maintain a safe working environment that complies with applicable OSHA regulations.
- Perform other duties and tasks as assigned by management.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Hands-on experience working alongside experienced professionals
- Engagement with teams, mentors, and leaders across the organization
- Meaningful projects supporting business priorities
- Education about the environmental services industry and Clean Harbors’ operations
- Exposure to different career paths across the company’s lines of business
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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