Laboratory Technician
X2 positions available
Full time, Permanent
Monday to Thursday – 07:45am – 4:30pm & Friday 7:45am-13:30pm
Salary: circa £22,000 - £30,000 per annum
Job ID: 32661
Location: Worcester
Our client is a leading manufacturing business based in Worcester and due to internal promotions, they are seeking Laboratory Technicians to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has current lab experience and would like to build on a new skill set focusing on metallurgy, or someone who would like to build a career within a lab environment and has studied it previously at college or university.
Your key responsibilities:
1. Maintain testing and reporting to relevant work instruction documents.
2. Carry out tensile testing of routine, cut up, and appended bars when required and produce certifications for conformity.
3. Conduct chemical analysis using Optical Emission Spectroscopy and its calibration for the chemical analysis function for daily production processes.
4. Liaise with different departments regarding technical issues and deliver certifications.
5. Raise any issues or non-conformances.
6. Prepare micro samples for metallographic analysis as and when required.
7. Implement 5S laboratory cleaning and organization of designated areas in the lab for documentation, equipment, and desk/floor space.
8. Conduct etchline tank control titration tests on chemical pH levels and maintain documentation of results.
9. Perform mechanical tensile testing.
10. Manage test bar sample control and preparation.
Benefits / Other:
1. Training provided in the role and further career development.
2. Holidays: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (The company elects to be closed for normal business over the Christmas period, a total of 6 days of which 3 are from normal holiday entitlement and 3 are from statutory entitlement).
3. Pension: 5%-3%.
4. Life Assurance: You will be covered by Company’s Life Assurance benefits, providing a lump sum benefit payable on death in service equivalent to 2x pensionable salary.
Embracing diversity in all its forms, our client is an equal opportunity employer. They welcome individuals from all walks of life, irrespective of background or belief.
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