Lab Technician

As a Lab Technicia**n**, you are a crucial part of our operations, ensuring that a quality product is available to our customers when they need them

Are you passionate about the field of Chemistry and have a willingness to join the chemical process industry? This could be the role for you

**Lab Tech Key Responsibilities**
- Titrate, maintain and be responsible for all process production lines daily at scheduled times.
- Make chemical, change filters as needed, trouble shoot the pump, heat exchange failure and slurry adjustments to maintain pre-treatment and e-coat baths.
- Run phosphate, paint, and powder coated panels for testing purposes.
- Maintain calibrations and corrections factors of the lab equipment daily
- Ensure all preventive maintenance items including but not limited to bath dumps, cleaning spray nozzles, cleaning walls of tanks, removing obstructions including parts from tanks as required well maintained.
- Test and maintain wastewater treatment systems to ensure effluent water and sludge is to by-law standards. Complete all Waste Water Technician duties including the waster water towers, RO, DI system. Chemical storage and waste management.
- Supervise and maintain lab supplies, chemicals, reagents. Verify and approve incoming process supplies & materials via dock audits.
- Maintain and handle laboratory records and experimental data, master files and databases, Input data for SPC charts per requirements.
- Aligned with lockout/tagout and confined space procedures, chemical safety system.

**Lab Tech Qualifications**
- College or University Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or Industrial chemistry.
- 2+ years of experience running an e-coat process line and knowledge of statistical process control and MSA.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs repeatedly.
- Available to work afternoon shift with flexibility to work overtime & weekends as required.

**About us**:
**PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD**

**The PPG Way**

Every single day at PPG:
**We partner with customers to create mutual value.**

We are insightful, dedicated and proactive. We have intimate knowledge of the market and our customers. We focus on practical solutions that make a difference.

**We are “One PPG” to the world.**

We are better and stronger together. We leverage our scale to reach new markets and introduce innovative technologies as we differentiate and disrupt our markets.

**We trust our people every day, in every way.**

We enable and empower our people to make the right decisions. We are inclusive, transparent and respectful. Our feedback is clear and actionable.

**We make it happen.**

We have a passion for winning. We achieve. We deliver with discipline and integrity. We bring our best energy to our work. We decide and act intelligently and quickly.

**We run it like we own it.**

We respect one another by being responsible and accountable. We always act in the best interest of our company, customers, shareholders and our communities.

**We do better today than yesterday - everyday.**

We continuously learn. We develop our people to grow our businesses.

**PPG Way: (Click here to learn more about the PPG Way)**

Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process.

IQ Manufactoring Reqs

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location: One location