Quality Lab Technician - 3rd Shift

Vesuvius North America; Kentucky; On-site; USD 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Vesuvius North America seeks a Quality Lab Technician to support the Analytical Chemist with sample preparation, standard-making, and instrumentation in the Kentucky plant.

Responsibilities include preparing solutions, performing tests, maintaining equipment, monitoring quality, and documenting results while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Associate’s Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct chemical or physical tests to assist chemists in qualitative/quantitative analyses.
• Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
• Set up and conduct chemical experiments and sample preparation using standard formulas and procedures.
• Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
• Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes and document results.
• Evaluate information to determine compliance with standards and laws/regulations.
• Document/record information and communicate findings to supervisors and peers.

Skills

Science

Critical Thinking

Monitoring

Active Listening

Attention to detail

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Job Details

Description

Quality Lab Technician

Purpose

To support the Analytical Chemist and Chemist in sample preparation for analysis. Assist with standard-making and instrumentation.

Dimensions Of Position

• Safe operation of the Analytical Lab and improvement of the plant safety culture
• Timely, accurate, and precise chemical analysis

Key Result Areas

• Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist chemist in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of materials.
• Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
• Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as grinding, cleaning of glasswork, and sample preparation.
• Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
• Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
• Evaluating information to determine compliance with standards — using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Documenting/Recording Information
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED Required
• Associate’s Degree preferred

Experience

• 1-3 years’ experience working in a lab environment

Knowledge

• Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
• Mathematics — Knowledge of basic arithmetic

Skills & Behaviour

• Science — using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
• Critical Thinking — using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring
• Active Listening
• Ability to pay close attention to detail

The Lab Technician is expected to evaluate information to determine compliance with standards. Any abnormalities or complex decisions will be elevated to the Chemist of Lab Manager.

Environmental Conditions

• Work is completed 100% inside.
• Exposure to Chemicals, Toxic Materials, and Equipment

Physical Requirements

• Occasional lifting up to 50 pounds