**INTERNAL JOB OPPORTUNITY**
**LAB TECHNICIAN/ SHIFT CHEMIST**
- Time for a change of role?
- Wanting to upskill from manufacturing? Looking career advancement to technician and lab?
Here is a perfect opportunity to step away from the manufacturing side of Molycop and be part of our product testing within our internal laboratories and technician teams in a Mon-Fri day work role.
This role will see you using your steelmaking and manufacturing knowledge, and upskilling you into duties within our laboratory workshop & metallurgical testing laboratory including:
- Tensile testing of samples for Rail Products & Bar Products
- Hardness testing of samples for Grinding Media, Rail & Bar Products
- Impact testing of samples for Rail & Bar Products
- Sectioning & preparation of samples for chemical analysis
- Sectioning, preparation & polishing of samples for metallography
- Etching & metallography
- Preparing samples and analysis for investigations
This expression of interest for Lab Technicians will see you initially learning all facets within the metallurgical laboratory and creating a steady career as a technician.
You'll then have the opportunity to upskill further and step into a Shift Chemist Technician role in a relief capacity to support all Chemical analysis in the Chemical Laboratory.
As a relief shift chemist this role will see you working a 12-hour, 6-day roster pattern, with half of Saturday, Sunday and mid morning Monday yours to enjoy.
Within this role you'll be required to have:
- A methodical and systematic approach to your work
- Strong attention to detail and skill to work with high levels of accuracy
- Ability to work autonomously and be self-managing where required
- Commitment to safe work practices and a proven safety record
- Plan and organise work tasks
- Work effectively in a team based environment
- Strong data recording ability
- Ability to communicate effectively
- A Senior First Aid Certificate would be desirable