Lab Technician, Quality Technical Services

Herbalife•Lake Forest, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The lab technician will support process engineering tasks. These tasks require a basic understanding of laboratory practices, mathematical, scientific principles, and encompass a variety of responsibilities ranging from maintaining raw material inventory, preparing benchtop samples, supporting pilot/plant trials, and performing physical testing for raw material and finished goods.

Requirements

High School Diploma and/or Associate degree
2-4 years experience
Ensure that tasks are delivered in a timely, accurate, and organized manner.
Ability to work on several projects at a time.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Team oriented interpersonal skills
Ability to manage data and information in MS Office; Excel, Word and Outlook

Responsibilities

Execute bench samples, pilots, process scale-up verifications by recording results in laboratory notebook, protocol, and/or batch records.
Procure raw materials from suppliers and production warehouse. Maintain raw material documentation.
Perform basic chemical, physical and product performance tests on raw materials and finished products. Record and publish results.
Enter sample information into logs, coordinate sample registrations and collect data from QC as needed.
Maintain laboratory workspace and equipment in a clean and orderly state. Ensure all raw materials and laboratory supplies are properly tracked and in inventory.
Work with maintenance department/equipment suppliers to ensure the completion of preventative maintenance, calibration, repairs of lab equipment.
Support documentation activities; create Agile change requests for new Item Master entries (i.e. Raw material, Formula and Premix numbers) in Oracle. Generate simple changes to packaging master batch records in the Electronic Batch Record (EBR) system.
Additional duties as assigned.