Laboratory Technician I - Jacintoport, TX

Bureau Veritas•Jacintoport, TX

13h

About The Position

A WORLD LEADER IN TESTING, INSPECTION & CERTIFICATION SERVICES Bureau Veritas offers dynamic, exciting employment opportunities with an attractive salary/benefit package and an opportunity to play a vital role with a global organization. If you would enjoy working in a dynamic environment and are looking for an opportunity to become part of a stellar team of professionals, we invite you to apply online today. Bureau Veritas is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, sexual orientation, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other non-job-related characteristics. This position is responsible to ensure equal opportunity in employment in that all persons are treated equally and on the basis of merit, in decisions regarding selection, placement, promotions, training, work assignments, transfers and other personnel actions. SUMMARY: The scope of work for a Laboratory Technician is to perform precise and timely laboratory testing and data analysis, draft mission-critical custody transfer documentation, troubleshoot minor instrumentation issues, and deliver value to our clients. The ideal candidate for this role is a critical thinker, problem solver, and technically inclined.

Requirements

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry
2 -5 years of related experience and/or training
Demonstrate advanced capacity to learn quickly
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to properly interpret technical reports related to chemicals and their properties.
Ability to interpret scientific formulas.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Valid driver license required.

Responsibilities

Read, understand, and follow standardized test methods to produce analytical data
Troubleshoot instrumentation issues as they arise, run SQCs, calibrations, and follow quality assurance practices and protocols.
Perform routine and non-routine laboratory analysis.
Devise and apply testing methodologies to effectively run special analytical requests where published procedures may not exist.
Document and train others in research methodologies.
Maintain a familiarity with chemical literature and current developments in the field.
Render statistical analyses of analytical data.
Awareness of laboratory chemical properties and their hazards
Continually evaluate the safety of laboratory working conditions
Advise and support with integrity the laboratory and clients in those issues that require a scientist.
Carry out the above responsibilities, and all others, which may be assigned, in a manner demonstrating support for and adherence to the Company’s Safety Policy and Procedures, Quality Policy and Procedures, Ethics Policy, Environmental Management System, Vision and Strategy, and to exercise good judgment, common sense, and diplomacy in so doing.
Less than 10% of traveling is required.