Laboratory Technician

**Duties include**
- Responsible for maintaining a clean and safe working environment in the Lab.
- Cleaning of glassware and equipment to ensure integrity of analysis is maintained at all times.
- Compliance to quality standard, using and following documented procedures and testing protocol as specified for each product or sample type.
- Make adjustments and recommendations during the manufacture of products to ensure conformance to final specifications.
- Adjustment of batch sheets, where required.
- Sampling and analysis of Daily Routine Samples. This includes scrubbers, pH meters, cooling tower, effluent streams, etc required for licence compliance.
- Liaise with Production Supervisors if corrective actions are required.
- Assist with the analysis of effluent and storm water to ensure environmental licence compliance.
- Ensure routine maintenance and QA checks on instrumentation are performed.
- Responsible for carrying out stock count and inform Lab Superintendent of impending depletion of consumables or equipment failures.
- General clerical and data entry duties including entry of quality data into E1 or electronic spreadsheet format.
- Assist with the documentation, review, validation, improvement, and or development of analytical methods of the laboratory.
- Carry other duties that might be assigned by the Quality Lead that relate to sampling of raw materials, testing of finished products.

**Requirements criteria**:

- Degree in Chemistry or similar qualification or higher.
- Experience gained in Quality Control and Quality Assurance of products in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in use of MS Office and preferably in Business Resource Planning System (Enterprise One)
- This will be a rotating roster between days/evenings as the season becomes busy.

**Who is IPA?**

We are a certified social enterprise agency that for the past 36 years has been partnering with Australian employers to deliver tailored solutions to meet the workforce needs. All the profit we make, yes 100% of our profit is used to support people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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