Job Purpose:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform basic analytical tests based on standards and procedures as assigned by the Laboratory Manager.
- Assist and perform the setting up, adjusting and operating laboratory equipment.
- Calibrate laboratory instruments as needed to ensure that analysis is accurate according to the Quality Management systems.
- Clean and sterilize laboratory equipment.
- Prepare chemical solutions according to standard formulas.
- Records test results on standardized forms and writes test reports describing procedures used.
- Understand and complete laboratory raw data sheets and make accurate entries into LIMS data base.
- Ability to read and comprehend all analysis as well as safety standards in English, including ASTM, UOP, IP and other well-defined analytical standards and procedures used in the laboratory.
- Exercise procedural, safety and quality requirements specified in Laboratory Manual & Safety Manual and company policies.
- All other duties assigned by management.
Other Duties:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or a related science preferred, or equivalent work experience; coupled with a minimum of one (2) year of direct transferable experience working in a laboratory.
- Knowledgeable in ASTM standards.
- Must be able to work with all chemical, petrochemical and petroleum products.
- Must be able to differentiate between colors accurately by sight.
- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) experience preferred.
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Access preferred.
- Have a great work history with a track record of being responsible individual.
- Detailed orientated.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proficient in the use of laboratory equipment.
Travel:
Working conditions:
Requirements:
- Required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms; and to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, or twist body to fit and/or reach.
- The employee’s lifting requirement and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
- Be able to work in the presence of odors typical of petroleum or petrochemicals without allergic reactions or nausea, when such odors are within OSHA-designated permissible exposure limits (PELs).
- May be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
AAP/EEO: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.