Encapsys - Third Shift Lab Technician

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure products meet quality specifications prior to receiving and/or shipment.
• In-process quality check and balance to ensure product meets key point specifications.
• Properly maintain lab equipment.
• Work overtime to cover vacancies/vacations and meet Customer requirements, including weekends.
• Personal safety of self and other while conducting work tasks.
• Cross train to other processes and positions for business continuity and flexibility.
• Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assist in identifying and correcting these problems.
• Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.
• Analyze test data and make computations as necessary to determine test results.
• Collect samples from tanks per production schedule for testing.
• Read dials and meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.
• Clean, maintain, repair, and calibrate measuring instruments and test equipment.
• Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators, and prepare reports of inspection or test findings.
• Attend all plant meetings and complete all trainings on time.
• Maintain 5S standards.
• Able to occasionally push, pull and carry up to 50 pounds.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) with coursework completed in general chemistry.
• Experience in a laboratory environment preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft software applications helpful.
• Keyboarding proficiency and general computer knowledge/experience preferred.