Job Description
Job Title: Laboratory Technician
Pay Rate: $25 to $26.50/HR
Duration: 12 months
Location: Bay Point, CA
Shift: 10:00 PM 6:30 AM Tues-Sat (Monday night-Friday night).
We are looking for a Laboratory Technician
Qualifications:
- Reporting directly to the Quality Control Supervisor, the QC Lab Specialist is responsible for testing chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of materials to determine conformance to standards and specifications.
- Strong commitment to safety, with demonstrated investment in safety improvement activities
- Solid interpersonal skills, must be able to work as a team member and independently on multi-task assignments
- High school diploma/GED and experience working in a chemical laboratory preferred.
- PC proficiency in Microsoft Office products, specifically Excel tabling and charting, SAP, and other database experience preferred.
- Familiar with analytical equipment, wet chemistry techniques, and/or mechanical testing apparatuses.
- Strong work ethic, self-motivated, and ability to drive projects to desired results.
- Sound communication skills, focused on problem-solving and interdepartmental teamwork.
- Ability to balance changing priorities in a dynamic team environment.
- Ability to work on the requested shift.
- Training rotations may occur on a different shift than the application states, and can take 1-3 months to complete.
- Shifts may include 1st, 2nd, 3rd shifts as well as weekends.
- Please see details in the posting.
Responsibilities:
- Complies with all Safety, Health, and Environmental rules, procedures, and regulations.
- Conducts all laboratory work in a safe manner, including the use of proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), adherence to the site safety practices, use of lab equipment, 5S, etc
- Perform all work in strict adherence to QC standard laboratory procedures (SLPs).
- Reviews and provides recommended improvements to QC standard laboratory procedures (SLPs).
- Inspection and testing of incoming raw materials, semi-finished goods, and finished goods according to defined instructions, procedures, and methods.
- Executes lab testing and generates test data, documentation, and lab reports.
- Reporting of lab results and methods according to accepted company lab practices; results, reports, and observations will be communicated to internal/external customers.
- Records data in Excel or lab notebooks, processes documentation, and computer databases such as SAP
Physical Requirements
- Work with and around hazardous materials, chemicals, and equipment
- Frequently sit, view a computer screen, and type on a keyboard for extended periods of time.
- Stand continuously and walk frequently during the shift.
- Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance, 100 pounds with assistance, and push/pull up to 600 pounds with mechanical assistance. Tool use, including operations requiring dexterity in the hands
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.
- Corrective lenses are adequate for job requirements