Laboratory Technician

Laboratory Technician

Location: Birmingham , West Midlands (County) Salary: Unspecified Date posted: 31/05/2012 22:10 Job type:Permanent Company: Alma Personnel Contact: Kristy Walia Ref: Totaljobs Job ID: 53745694

A vacancy has arisen within the Quality Department for a Chem Lab Technician reporting to the Chemical Laboratory Supervisor.

Key requirements for the role include:

To carry out defined tasks relating to the chemical analysis of titanium and its alloys.

To ensure furtherance of company business need in terms of chemical testing and release.

To have good knowledge and understanding of customer specifications and the associated testing and inspection requirements as they appertain to customer orders.

To be able to liaise with members of other departments (such as Planning, Inspection, Production and Test Piece Manufacture) in furtherance of satisfying customer test and release requirements.

To have a familiarity with laboratory equipment and consumables in terms of usage, limitations, calibration and safety.

To have good knowledge and experience of the chemical analysis of ingot and product alloys particularly with respect to nominal compositions. (Being able to recognise normative material and non-standard / defective material and valid/non valid test results).

To have a thorough knowledge of the methods for test result recording and the subsequent reporting of test results to include associated computer systems. (STAR, SAP, Excel and Access etc).

To demonstrate problem solving capabilities and have an understanding of CI activities.

To conduct, safety, COSHH and risk assessments within the laboratory, including, where applicable environmental monitoring.

To assist in the preparation of quality procedures as necessary.

To be able to prepare standard operating procedures as necessary

To carry out activities to support the delivery of departmental objectives taking positive / proactive action when customer service is at risk.

To deputise for shift leaders as necessary.

To coach, train and advise other more junior staff.

To help develop, maintain and supply info on chemical lab throughputs and performance.

As appropriate to carry out or participate in internal, external and customer audits.

Experience / Qualification requirements include:

At least one years previous experience in a similar role along with:

Minimum ONC/HNC level of education (or equivalent)

Experience of chemical analysis

Team working skills / experience

PC Literate (esp. MS Office)

Health, Safety and environment awareness

This is a role which is a 4 x 4 shift pattern on days across seven days and they are 12 hour shifts, but there will be a shift allowance.