Lab Technician

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Job Title: Grain Quality Analyst

Location: Ankeny, IA 50021

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $23.00 - $23.00/Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.

Job Summary:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering field such as Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology or a closely related field with at least three years of related industry experience.
• Directly applicable experience will be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
• Receipt, identification, and preparation of samples.
• Ensure incoming samples are labeled correctly.
• Appropriate analytical requests have been requested.
• Prep and analyze samples according to ISO work instructions.
• Ability to routinely lift items weighing 35 - 40 lbs.
• Prioritization of analyses according to customer needs matched to capacity.
• Organization and coordination of projects in a high throughput lab environment.
• Obtaining analytical data.
• Ensuring data integrity.
• Functioning in multi-discipline teams and delivering laboratory results in an efficient manner.
• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
• Works under immediate supervision.
• Typically reports to a supervisor.

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience with total combustion analysis.
• Elemental analysis.
• Calorimetry.
• Gas Chromatography (GC).
• NIR Spectroscopy.
• NMR.
• Total oil analysis.
• Colorimetry.
• Falling number.
• Farinograph.
• Mixograph.
• Bench-top wet chemical analyses.
• LIMS.
• Microsoft Office Suite.
• Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Years of Experience:

• 1-3 Years of Experience. xhqgsiq

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.