Senior It Technician / Technical Project Lead - Johannesburg

Professional Career Services; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 500 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Laboratory Technician, where your expertise in gas analysis and laboratory instruments will contribute to maintaining high standards of compliance and quality. In this role, you'll perform critical analyses, ensuring reliable results while troubleshooting issues independently. This innovative firm values integrity and ethics, offering limitless opportunities for career advancement and personal growth. If you're passionate about making a positive impact in the industry and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a laboratory environment.
• Advanced knowledge of laboratory instruments like GC, UV, and FTIR.

Responsibilities

• Perform analyses of gas mixtures for compliance and accuracy.
• Conduct stability trials and calculate analysis results.

Skills

Laboratory Analysis

Troubleshooting

Data Review

Compliance

Education

University Degree in Chemistry

Btech in Analytical Chemistry

Tools

Gas Chromatography (GC)

Ultraviolet (UV) Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)

LIMS

Xgenline

Dinest

Job description

Afrox, a Linde company

Senior Laboratory Technician

Germiston, GP, South Africa | req

What you will enjoy doing

1. As a technician, you will perform analyses of gas mixtures related to composition and compliance that fall within the scope of accreditation, following best procedures.
2. Ensure that reliable and accurate results are always generated.
3. You perform % review of the data generated before entering on LIMS and submitting for secondary level review.
4. Report all non-conformance situations, instrument problems, matrix problems, and QC failures.
5. Conduct stability trials for calibration gases.
6. Furthermore, you calculate analysis results on Xgenline or Dinest.

What makes you great

1. You possess a university degree in Chemistry or Btech in Analytical Chemistry, and you have already gained at least 3 to 5 years of experience in a laboratory environment.
2. You have advanced knowledge of laboratory instruments e.g. GC, UV, and FTIR.
3. You have the ability to troubleshoot and work unsupervised.

Why you will love working with us

Afrox is a market leader in gases and welding products and part of Linde. Integrity, compliance, and ethics are driving forces behind our dealings with customers. Afrox employees take pride in what they do and turn every challenge into an opportunity.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless.

Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Have we inspired you? Let's talk about it! We are looking forward to receiving your complete application via our online job market. Application closing date: 28th April.

Any designations used of course apply to persons of all genders. The form of speech used here is for simplicity only. The employment decision shall be informed by the Employment Equity Plan of the company.

The company reserves the right to withdraw posts, if by doing so, the interests of the Company will be best served. Afrox, a Linde company acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society, and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions, and locations across the globe.

The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.