LabTechnician

Lab Technician

Location: Brixworth, Northampton

Salary: £24000

12 month fixed term contract

Hours:Standard hours are 8:30am-5pm, with an option of 6am-2pm shifts if preferred (this option includes a 5% shift premium)

Benefits: Non-contractual Bonus Scheme based on performance

Life Assurance Cover up to 4x annual salary

Pension

25 day’s holiday and bank holidays plus birthday

Own Transport Required

The job:

Supporting Production, the lab technician will be responsible for ensuring all incoming and outgoing raw materials and fragrance batches which will undergo the relevant quality control tests, in order to determine differences in quality, and where necessary, investigate and record non-conformances, as well as to rework raw materials according to specification as and when required.

What you will be doing:

Smell and release raw materials, fragrance batches and laboratory batches after testing to specifications

Assist production with any queries relating to raw material or production batches

Proactive retesting of all batches and materials due

Problem solving and issue of clear rework instructions

Accurately reading and entering all data onto QC SYSTEM with due regard for specification

Record all non-conformances

Obtain specifications from suppliers for raw materials and enter onto database

Keep QC SYSTEM updated and clean

Liaise with Customer services in the event of delays to batches.

Keep workspace clean and tidy

Ideal Skills required:

              Excellent sense of smell and pass the Company smelling assessment                            test

              Previous experience of testing industry

              Excellent eye for detail

              The ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure, in a team and as               an individual.

              Good problem solving skills

              The ability to accurately record all data

              Good time Management, flexibility required to cover shifts

              Good communication ability at all levels

This job is not a Skills Shortage Occupation in the UK and does not qualify for a Visa Sponsorship.

All Applicants must therefore already hold a document that allows the Right to Work in the UK