Quality & Lab Technician: Foam Testing & Data Integrity

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Work Schedule: Day shift Monday-Friday 7a-3:30p; overtime as needed

The QC / Lab Technician supports plant quality, laboratory operations, research and development trials, selected administrative controls, and continuous improvement activities. This role performs raw material and batch testing, supports batch release and laboratory documentation, prepares spray foam experiments, and completes assigned accounting-support processes in accordance with established controls. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, safety-focused, organized, and able to maintain accurate records while working collaboratively across quality, operations, R&D, and finance functions.

• Understand, follow, and execute company and site safety requirements, including PPE, chemical handling, waste disposal, spill response, and emergency procedures.
• Fully understand and practice safe chemical handling procedures when working with laboratory materials, components, samples, and waste streams.
• Identify and report safety, quality, equipment, process, or control concerns in a timely manner.

• Perform and document quality control and analytical testing, including IR spectroscopy, KF water analysis, viscosity testing, foam cup testing, density, K-factor, open-cell content, and other required foam physical property measurements.
• Use test data to support batch release decisions in accordance with approved methods, specifications, and site procedures.
• Communicate out-of-specification, unusual, or questionable results to the appropriate leader before material disposition.
• Maintain retain sample racks, laboratory logs, notebooks, electronic records, and batch-release documentation in accordance with site procedures.

• Support assigned accounts payable, invoice review, reconciliation, and customer credit request processes.
• Review documentation for completeness, accuracy, authorization, coding, and required approvals before processing or submission.
• Research and help resolve quantity, price, receipt, coding, or documentation discrepancies with the appropriate process owner.
• Handle supplier, customer, pricing, banking, and financial information confidentially and in accordance with established controls.

• Prepare small laboratory batches, including approximately one-quart B-side batches, five-gallon trial samples, and experimental setups using approved formulas, procedures, and authorizations.
• Perform cup tests, intermediate pour tests, and foam testing while documenting formulations, conditions, results, and observations accurately in notebooks or approved records.
• Assist R&D and plant teams with material handling, large-scale spray trials, equipment setup, test execution, measurement, and cleanup.
• Learn to operate spray equipment and maintain assigned laboratory or spray equipment after required qualification and authorization.
• Maintain laboratory and spray areas, working chemical inventories, supplies, sample storage, instruments, and records in a clean, organized, stocked, and test-ready condition; support designated sample disposal intervals.

• Participate in TPM and continuous improvement activities that support safety, quality, reliability, and plant performance.
• Support assigned pillar activities, problem solving, root cause investigations, corrective actions, 5S, audits, and workplace organization efforts.
• Maintain assigned standards, visual controls, action logs, training materials, and documentation for the work area.
• Identify opportunities to reduce…