Chemical Lab Technician

Job Title: Chemical Lab Technician

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: 0–12 Months

Shift: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Rate: $21.00 – $22.00/Hour

This lab technical role is focused on supporting technical service efforts within the Resins group, with an emphasis on coatings for metal protection. These coatings may include water based systems and solvent based systems and will require, in some cases, spray outs in a spray booth onto panels. Under the supervision of chemists and other team members, this technician would regularly perform mixing of materials to create formulations, driven by guided projects and pre-determined recipes.

They would also conduct tests, interpret and analyze data, compile results, prepare reports, and present their conclusions regularly to the scientist/chemist or team leader. Further responsibilities may include maintaining lab inventory, participating in safety inspections and site based programs for safety.

• Use of balances, containment
• Proper sample labelling
• Mixing of precisely weighed out materials through overhead mixers
• Use of a high shear disperser blade for pigment incorporation
• Using a variety of additives to adjust viscosity, tune flow and wetting behaviour and minimizing foam
• Safe operation of equipment and cleaning of equipment

• Drawdowns of paint via wire rod, drawdown bars
• Use of HVLP spray gun to apply paint to panels
• Drying panels in an oven
• Wearing a respirator hood and jumpsuit to spray in the spray booth

• Pot-life testing
• Viscosity measurement testing
• Gloss measurement
• Chemical resistance
• Adhesion testing
• Corrosion testing
• Humidity resistance testing
• Scratch resistance testing
• Hardness testing
• Impact resistance testing
• Abrasion resistance testing
• Water resistance testing
• Dry time testing
• Gloss and colour retention on accelerated weathering

Data collection:
Individual must be able to follow protocols, document findings in an organized fashion, and report out to technical specialists or technical manager, their findings. Individual must be familiar with Microsoft platform of tools.

Hands-on lab experience. This position requires comfortability in working with water-based and solvent based coatings and the ability to wear a respirator hood for spraying of paints.

Bachelors degree in Chemistry or Chemical engineering with hands on lab experience OR High school diploma with 5 years of hands‑on lab experience.

Company: Lance Soft