Laboratory Technician
About The Position
Novelis – Guthrie, KY is seeking an experienced Lab Technician to join Novelis for our expansion/greenfield start-up Recycling Center in Guthrie, KY. This Lab Technician will report to the Process Engineering Leader and is responsible for providing timely testing of production material to support Guthrie Manufacturing Units' daily operations. This includes daily production testing, product quality control, and special investigations. Specifically, this position entails utilizing metal preparation testing equipment to ascertain and report metal characteristics. The Lab Technician will provide guidance to manufacturing groups based on sample analysis and mechanical testing results obtained in the lab.
Requirements
- Must be willing to work 8-hour or 12-hour, rotating shifts as well as holidays and weekends if business needs require.
- Ability to work effectively without close supervision in a challenging environment while maintaining a positive outlook and striving for world-class process improvements.
- Adequate computer skills to navigate lab software and communicate throughout the organization are required
- Ability to lift 50 pounds.
- Ability to walk and stand for most of the shift.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a lab setting is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Provide prompt, accurate test data as required to support operations. Provide real-time feedback to allow manufacturing adjustments based on sample analysis and mechanical testing results obtained in the Laboratory.
- Develop reporting tools to make complex data more easily understandable. Provide Laboratory results to Quality Engineers/Product Engineers and other Novelis personnel for further analysis.
- May be required to interact with vendors and maintenance personnel to help troubleshoot and resolve equipment issues.
- Operate sample inventory management, sample preparation, and sample testing equipment.
- Be an active participant in reliability issues related to Laboratory equipment.
- Assist in the implementation of training plans, development of training documentation, and training of new Laboratory Technicians.
- Support audits and findings gap closure.
- Address and resolve certification issues.
- Participate in problem-solving resolution and verify/validate corrective actions.
- Actively support EHS policy, align decisions and actions with the EHS management system, and integrate EHS performance in day-to-day operations.
- Support the implementation and maintenance of the plant’s Quality System by serving as a resource.
- Engage in continuous improvement activities that will help create a safer and more efficient Laboratory environment.
- Perform other tasks as required by the Process Engineering team.
- Daily, weekly, monthly PM’s of quantometers and milling machines.
- Chemistry tests.
- Daily caster cooling water, make-up water and city water tests.
- Limca inclusion tests.
- Prefil -podfa inclusion tests.
- Prepare met lab samples for inclusion analysis.
- Prepare the inclusion reports with working casting process engineer.
- Daily ingot inspections.
- Scrap melt loss tests.
- Scrap moisture test.
- Scrap organic and dust tests.
- Hardener inspections.
- Purchase requisitions for the necessary supplies of the lab equipment and tests.
- Record test results on time and accurately.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
