Lab Technician

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Lab Technician

**Requisition ID**:9757**Location**:Bath, ON, CA, K0H 1G0**Pay Type**:Salary**WHO IS LAFARGE?**
As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 70,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

**WHO ARE LAFARGE PEOPLE?**
Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

**Objective**
- The Lab Technician’s prime objectives are to accurately perform all the quality assurance chemical analysis and some physical analysis, repair and upkeep lab equipment and help ensure compliance at all stages of the cement manufacturing process in a safe working environment. These activities include but are not limited to the determination of chemical and physical properties of material; performing, tracking and reporting calibrations; compliance, maintenance and troubleshooting of breakdowns of all laboratory equipment. The Lab Technician verifies that the cement products meet both the internal and external quality standards and participates in and maintains a high level of accuracy in all standardized testing programs. The Lab Technician reports directly to the Quality Supervisor and participates in cross functional teams in the plant.**Responsibilities**
- Safety:
- Promotes and complies with Company safety policies.
- Proposes and takes corrective actions on unsafe conditions and behaviors at the plant.
- Participates and contributes to rectifying all lab safety issues and completes the monthly Safety Toolbox package.
- Complies with all laboratory safety procedures and ensures WHMIS labelling on all chemical solutions.
- Actively participates in team-based safety.
- Environment:
- Ensures that all quality activities and initiatives meet environmental regulatory requirement.
- Quality Assurance:
- Applies the laboratory QA & QC procedures.
- Guarantees the accuracy and reliability of lab data.
- Performs equipment maintenance, monitoring and calibrations.
- Aids in the training and certification of personnel that is assigned to the lab.
- Participate in the annual Lafarge Round Robin testing, CCRL program and audits and ISO 9001 audits.
- Quality Control:
- Actively participate in daily process meetings and proactively implements actions generated from the meeting.
- Maintains chemical inventory log, checks daily and reorders consumables as required.
- Prepares all chemical solutions used in the lab and maintains inventory
- Problem Solving:
- Participates to Root Cause Analysis program.
- Participates in cross-functional teams to resolve issues at the plant.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Tests all trial samples related to Alternative Raw materials, Alternative fuel, Process and Cement improvement projects.
- Relationship with Others:
- Reports to the Quality Supervisor
- Works with and alongside the Lab B operator and Physical Tester
- Works with cross-functional teams involving Production, Process, Safety, Environment and Maintenance
- Specific Accountabilities:
- Maintains safe laboratory operations and WHMIS labelling of all solutions in the laboratory.
- Participates in all safety related meetings, improvement projects and toolbox talks.
- Maintains reliability of lab equipment and adheres to preventive maintenance plans and activity logs.
- Performs internal calibrations in accordance to the calibration plan.
- Performs testing to assure cement products comply with internal and regulatory standards.
- Performs in-process raw materials testing to verify chemical compositions and analyzes alternative raw materials to help determine acceptance or rejection of materials.
- Maintains and manages stock of lab consumables and supplies.
- Update and Reviews quality data in Technical Information System (TIS) for bulk shipping samples and raw materials.
- Reports issues that would cause product non-conformity.Follows and suggests improvements to Quality procedures.
- Participates in internal and external audits for ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
- Participates in Process departmen