Laboratory Technician

Eurofins USA Medical Devices•St. Louis, MO

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Eurofins’ Maryland Heights, Missouri laboratory provides organic chemistry testing, specializing in investigative analytical chemistry. Its work includes evaluating consumer-product label claims, reverse engineering pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements, identifying contaminants, determining sources of off odors, flavors, and colors, evaluating extractables and leachables from consumer electronics, and testing medical devices. The Laboratory Technician will focus on sample preparation and perform laboratory techniques and testing with minimal supervision.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry.
0–1 years of applicable experience.
Work effectively in a team environment.
Knowledge of laboratory health and safety.
Excellent organizational skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Comfort working in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to remain stationary 80% of the time.
Ability to continuously operate a personal computer or laboratory equipment for extended periods of four or more hours.
Ability to operate a keyboard and laboratory equipment, use a telephone, and access file cabinets and other items stored at various levels, including overhead.
Ability to communicate clearly and understandably in person at normal conversational distance, over the telephone, and in a group setting.
Ability to handle small, fragile devices with tweezers and/or fingers.
Close-distance visual acuity, with or without correction.
Willingness and ability to wear required personal protective equipment, which may include a hard hat, steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, and a laboratory coat.
Ability to learn and remember processes, maintain focus, complete tasks independently, make timely workflow decisions, communicate with visitors, and complete tasks subject to speed or productivity quotas.
Ability to move equipment or items weighing up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

Use balances and pH meters, prepare standard, reagent, and mobile-phase solutions, prepare dilutions, handle volumetric glassware, and perform centrifugation, lyophilization, and similar techniques.
Handle volumetric glassware and record test observations.
Prepare dilutions of reagents, samples, and standards.
Measure pH and perform titrations and similar testing.