A long established heavy Steel Company based in North Birmingham require a Lab Technician for their state of the art Casting and Rolling business.

Annual Salary: £30,000 to £34,500
Weekly Hours: 06.00 to 14.00/14.00 to 22.00/22.00 to 06.00

Reporting to the Senior Laboratory Technician, the principal duties of the Laboratory Shift Technician are categorised as follows:

• Verification of Mechanical & Chemical Properties According to Customer Specifications
• Hardness Testing, Tensile Testing, Bend Testing, Spring Bend Testing
• Grain Size Determination
• Spectrographic Chemical Analysis
• Various Supplementary Tests as required
• Generating Certificates of Conformity

Verification & Maintenance of Test Equipment

• Routine Calibration Checks of Hardness Testers, Tensometer & Spectrographs
• Daily Maintenance of Spectrolux Container Laboratory
• Maintenance of Laboratory Equipment as required

Routine Solution Checks

• Verification of Acid tank strengths & recommending additions
• Verification of Degreaser tank strengths & recommending additions
• Verification of Benzotriazole strengths & recommending additions

Structural Analysis

• Routine Macrosections of cast structure
• Microsectioning & polishing as required
• Inspection of Incoming Raw Material
• Inspection & testing of virgin & scrap material

Please APPLY now for this great opportunity as a Lab Technician!