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Our innovative solutions enable you to ensure the integrity, safety and reliability of your activities, equipment and operations, while helping you take more sustainable approaches to infrastructure, transportation and business operations. This helps you to protect workers and the environment, generate customer confidence, enhance brand reputation, manage risk and increase business efficiency. As your organization transitions towards sustainable forms of energy and growing environmental responsibilities

• Job Title: Lab Technician – Engineering, Oil & Gas, Industrials
• Job Type: Permanent
• Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week
• Job Location: Manchester, M17 1SD

Main Purpose of Role

• Perform sampling of protective coatings in accordance with appropriate approved test procedures, international standards and within customer requirements to ensure effective throughput for ongoing projects.
• Perform round robin analysis ensuring any failures are recorded and investigated with appropriate action taken.
• When necessary, provide flexible support across the other departments providing routine technician activities.
• Undertake daily logging activities of ongoing tests.
• Maintain a clean working environment within the Coatings facility.
• Sample preparation, organisation and delivery for test set-up.

Key Accountabilities

• Report equipment/ instrumentation failure to senior staff member to execute remedial action and thereby ensure continuity of service.
• Maintain organised and auditable systems of work to ensure compliance with UKAS 17025 accreditation.
• Delivery of allocated daily tasks within defined timescales to maximise operational outputs and efficiencies.
• Rudimentary appreciation and understanding of laboratory techniques and equipment to assure minimum quality and health and safety requirements are achieved.
• Assist in booking of samples and raw data entry using SGS Lims system to ensure prompt turnaround on sample analysis.
• Escalate client enquiries to senior staff member for action/ resolution to ensure timely response and client satisfaction.
• Identify any training/ competency issues appropriate to development role and seek assistance from senior staff member to enable improvement and minimise potential short falls in skills/ experience in laboratory resource.
• At all times, adopt a safe behaviour by exercising due regard for the health and safety of yourself, colleagues and clients, in line with the Company’s policies and procedures.
• Ensure full compliance with the Company’s Code of Integrity & Professional Conduct, and at all times adopt behaviour in accordance with SGS UK’s Equality & Diversity policy.

How to be a successful candidate

If you have excellent communications skills both written and verbal, able to work under own initiative, work on performing repetitive work and with a high degree of autonomy & maturity then this is the role for you.

Will need experience of working within a laboratory environment or industries related to petro-chemical industry. Good to have experience with paints, coating, or polymers. Or experience of practical chemistry or related science subject. Essential to have GCSE Science/Mathematics/English, or equivalent, grades A to C. Desirable to have degree or equivalent - i.e. BSc/HNC/HND in either polymer science, chemistry, mechanical engineer, corrosion engineering.

What you will get in return

SGS takes pride in looking after our employees and providing an attractive benefits package. In addition to a competitive salary, you will also be eligible for:

• 10% performance related bonus (discretionary and subject to eligibility criteria)
• 4-8% matching company pension contributions
• 4x Life Assurance
• 24 days Annual Leave (increasing with service) plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Retailer Discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption pay,
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives