Hybrid Lab Technician bei USA Rare Earth
USA Rare Earth · Stillwater, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Junior
- Optionales Büro in Stillwater
Job Summary:
The Laboratory Technician plays a crucial role in the chemical process, developing permanent rare earth magnets. This person is a motivated self-starter who can work as a team, with detail-orientation, organization, and a desire for continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Follows laboratory safety procedures,
- Assists with and performs routine chemical and metallurgical analysis and reporting.
- Maintains and troubleshoots laboratory equipment.
- Reviews analytical results, researches any discrepancies, and reports any anomalous results to the lab manager and magnet technology team.
- Performs routine and non-routine analysis, including chemical, and magnetic, and a wide variety of product, process, project, research and environmental samples from all areas of the operation.
- Assists in tracking and maintaining the chemical reagent inventory.
- Cleans and maintains workstation(s) after use to help ensure laboratory instrumentation/equipment is in safe working order.
- Performance laboratory housekeeping and routine inspections.
- Prioritizes analytical work with magnet technology team.
- Actively participates in the safety management programs and adheres to all appropriate laboratory safety and operations procedures.
- Complies with all health, environmental, and safety regulations, company policies, processes, and procedures.
- Maintains safe work practices.
- Completes other tasks as needed.
Role Requirements:
- Associate or bachelor degree in chemistry, science, or electronics related area,
- 2-3 years of previous laboratory work experience
- Knowledge or experience related to experimental research and the scientific method.
- Knowledge of laboratory instruments used for materials chemical characterization.
- Knowledge of rare earth element chemical test methods, pulse-field magnetometry, and closed-loop magnetometry, is desired, but not required.
- Knowledge of sample preparation for microstructure analysis.
- Proficiency with analytical techniques and instrumentation.
- Aptitude for hands-on projects.
- Aptitude for technical problem solving and critical thinking
- Computer skills for logging and organizing large data sets
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, move, sit, carry, bend, kneel, reach, push, pull, lift, use hands and fingers, handle, or feel and talk and hear. May be required to lift and move boxes or packages not exceeding 20 pounds in weight. Some work stress inherent to the position and extended work hours may be required.
Work Environment:
The work environment will be a mix of a typical office environment, laboratory space, manufacturing floor and construction site.
Noise level:
Exposure will vary and include normal office noise, typical laboratory sounds (e.g., ventilation systems, equipment operation), manufacturing floor noise (e.g., machinery, forklifts), and construction site noise depending on project phase and location.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills required of personnel so classified. The reporting relationship may not reflect the most recent changes to the corporate reporting structure.
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