text: In 1967 Snieckus joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 1971 and a full professor in 1979. He assumed the Monsanto/NRC research chair in 1992.
  Snieckus relocated to Queen's University in 1998, where he assumed the Bader Chair of Chemistry. He retired and became professor emeritus in 2009. He founded a company, Snieckus Innovations, the same year, originally funded by Alfred Bader. Throughout his career Snieckus consulted for the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
  Among other awards, Snieckus became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993, a Fellow of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 1999, and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2009.
  Snieckus served as an editor for a variety of academic journals, was the president of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry in 1985, and chaired the American Chemical Society's Organic Division in 1989–90. He co-organized an academic conference series, Balticum Organicum Syntheticum, a chemistry conference held in the Baltic States.