Quality Control Laboratory Technician

Irlam, Manchester

£26,000 + shift allowance

Working hours 6-2 and 2-10

As a Laboratory Technician, you will carry out both routine and non-routine quality control analysis, directly contributing to the verification of incoming raw materials, in-process testing, and comprehensive final product analysis. This role will operate in support of a manufacturing plant environment which runs on a 24 hour basis with you providing analytical support to the team.

What you’ll do:

The role is going to be mostly a laboratory based job which provides analytical data to the wider team. This will be analysis of a range of chemical products that are getting manufactured such as surfactants the role will be to give that detailed raw material, in process and final product testing. Fundamentally so the plant knows that it is using material that’s correct, that their processes are working and that the final product is what they want it to be! The core lab techniques are:

• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Gas Chromatography (GC) (this will be the most commonly used two, also there will be)
• Colorimetric and potentiometric titrations
• Karl Fischer moisture analysis and Loss on Drying
• pH and Specific Gravity measurements
• Brookfield Viscosity determinations
• Ion Chromatography
• Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Ultraviolet (UV) Spectroscopy

Your background:

We are seeking a candidate who can be a graduate seeking their first role. There is a need to get to and from the site for 6am and away at 10pm so we are looking for someone who is local, and ideally drives, or lives very close by to the site in Irlam.

We are seeking a graduate or someone qualified via experience. Again this role doesn’t necessarily require industrial experience but you will need to have a strong background in HPLC and GC analysis (for example from your dissertation / final year project).

• Communication Skills: Exhibits excellent written and verbal communication abilities. If you have worked while studying and had interactions with the general public for example this will be interesting to hear about!
• Multitasking Capability: Proficiently manages multiple tasks concurrently within a dynamic environment.
• Administrative: Good administration, planning, organisational, and time-keeping proficiencies.

This full-time position operates on a 40-hour work week, adhering to a rotating shift pattern of 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM and 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Initial training will be conducted during standard day shifts (8:00 AM - 4:00 PM) so you will initially start on days then then move onto shifts.

On this occasion LiCa Scientific is acting as an employment agency.