Lab Technician

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We believe our people make the difference. That’s why we invest in talent by offering meaningful opportunities to grow your skills, expand your knowledge, and pursue your interests. Our work environment prioritizes safety, fosters collaboration across teams, and embraces inclusion. Here, you’ll be challenged to grow, and you’ll be supported throughout your career journey. Join us and help shape the future of Lhoist North America.

The Maintenance Planner’s primary objective is the planning of all resources to ensure safe and efficient execution of all scheduled maintenance work, thus keeping plant equipment in condition to deliver full design capacity and reliability, optimizing assets profitability for the life of the organization. A major part of this is maintaining an efficient preventive maintenance program. The planner works closely with the maintenance manager to achieve these objectives, plans, schedules, and coordinates corrective and preventive maintenance activities, works with plant management to continuously upgrade PMs, assists with purchasing to obtain parts and services for needed repairs, and completes both scheduled and unscheduled work orders.

• Perform daily testing requirements.
• Accurately sample and measure chemical and physical properties on all types of raw and finished products, environmental systems, and fuels following established laboratory guidelines.
• Effectively interpret and communicate analysis results within the context of the production facilities to maintain product quality.

• All supplies required for testing.
• All supplies required for sample shipments.
• Retain samples.

• Implement all elements of the quality manual.
• Maintain the validity of all documentation affecting the positions listed above.
• Maintain the validity of all procedures affecting the positions listed above.

• Maintain chemical solutions, laboratory instruments, perform standardization or calibrations, and keep a clean work environment.
• Collect and dump materials into designated equipment units accurately and efficiently.
• Responsible for minor repairs on laboratory equipment and preventative maintenance.
• Attend all safety meetings as required.
• Ensure the quality system aligns with safety policies and programs.

• Provide on‑the‑job training, as assigned.
• Verify on‑the‑job training, as assigned.
• Support corporate level development of quality and quality data systems.
• Provide training in approved quality and quality data systems.
• Educate team members about plant quality control, assurance, awareness, and auditing.
• Ensure test methods and procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated.

• Ensure federal, state, and local agency compliance standards.
• Maintain and support DMS structure and CRM data in compliance with the quality system.
• Compile non‑conformance data, including customer complaints, to provide specific and global recommendations.

• Assess product specifications of company and its suppliers, and compare with the requirements of our customers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Must be capable of working any shift, on‑call, overtime, or seven days a week, if needed.
• Must be willing to be hands‑on and not afraid to perform other work assigned to help the team be successful.
• Good analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and self‑starter.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks/projects and meet all required deadlines.
• Strong sense of urgency in meeting customer needs.
• Must have the ability to work independently to meet all required deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Self‑motivated and independently driven.
• Ability to complete required paperwork and mathematical assignments in a scientific format.
• Demonstrated ability to enter and retrieve data from MS Word,…