Laboratory Technician

2 weeks ago

Burnaby, Canada SGS Full time

Company Description

Make an impact with SGS With more than 94,000 employees and 2,600 offices and laboratories across the world, SGS is a silent force working hard behind the scenes to deliver quality and integrity to businesses across nine industries. As the world’s leader in providing inspection, verification, testing and certification services, Forbes ranked the SGS Group as one of the world’s top multinationals and one of the world’s most innovative companies. The Dow Jones Sustainability Index has also recognized the SGS Group for its sustainability processes. In Canada, SGS employs over 2,000 team members across 70 locations.

**Job Description**:
This position will conduct laboratory testing on agricultural grain, pulse, and food samples.
- Conduct required testing on agriculture and food samples such as moisture, protein, oil, salt, toxins, falling number, dockage, variety identification, nutrition labelling, proximate analysis or other tests using applicable wet chemistry methods and various instruments available in the laboratory.
- Conduct balance calibrations, pipette verifications, monitoring temperatures of water baths, fridges, freezers, etc.
- Maintain and record instrument calibrations (i.e. chromatography instruments, NIR, spectrophotometers, etc.).
- Monitor the daily conditions of the instruments (GC, GCMS, HPLC and LCMSMS, NIR, etc).
- Perform and record preventive maintenance on GC, GC-MS, HPLC and LC - MS (Triple Quad).
- Conduct proper sample storage and disposal practices and documentation.
- Liaise and resolve customer’s queries/results with the supervisor / manager and contribute to the resolution of customer complaints.
- Validate new methods for business growth or for customer requests, and work on improving the efficiency of existing methods and SOPs as per the instructions provided by the supervisor / manager.
- Data entry into LIMS, Excel, and other data entry modules (i.e. Client data entry modules such as Grain Grading Module)
- Conduct sample pre-processing (sub sampling, homogenization, splitting, cleaning) as necessary

**Qualifications**:

- A post secondary education (degree and/or diploma) in Chemistry, Food Science, Food Chemistry, Bio Chemistry etc.
- A minimum of 0-1 year of experience in an Agricultural Food laboratory setting.
- Sound knowledge of good laboratory practices.
- Must be proficient in using various type of computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.).
- Proven ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects in a fast-paced, highly professional environment.
- Flexibility to work extended hours from time to time.

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