Job Impact & Requirement
The Laboratory Technician II will complete moderately complex analytical and laboratory testing in support of the food safety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform routine analysis of product testing and will check and monitor instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results into databases and communicate test results.
Key Accountabilities
- Conduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process and final products independently and support more complex trials and experiments under intermediate supervision.
- Perform Environmental Monitoring - in-line swabbing, ATP swabbing and lab analysis
- Prepare medium and apparatus for microbiological analysis (environmental monitoring)
- Prepare samples and coordinate with 3rd Party Laboratory on the external microbiological laboratory testing for FGs, RMs, swab samples and as per customers’ requirements.
- Ensure compliance programs for all individual testing, which includes monitoring adherence to regulations and other procedural food safety compliance.
- Interpret and document results of tests into active databases and communicate results to internal customers as required.
- Run calibration checks, preventive maintenance tasks and simple repair to analytical instrumentation and maintain customer specifications books.
- Help develop food and feed safety, quality and regulatory culture and collaborate cross functionally to build, maintain and improve an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture.
- Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under general supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Possess technical and analytical skills in Quality Control
- Demonstrate analytical thinking and problem solving skills
- Possess a good sensory skills for product evaluation and troubleshooting
- Demonstrate ability to handle work professionally, independently and efficiently
- Possess attention to details
