Lab Technician

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Job description

Kelly is hiring a **Lab Technician** for one of our clients in **Louisville, KY.**

+ Temp to perm

+ $16/hr

+ Currently process about 250-300 samples a day and will ramp up to about 400-500 a day in the busy season

+ Food and environmental tests (ingredients or finished products)

+ You will be weighing food samples, cutting the samples, enriching them, and incubating them

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**

+ Demonstrates and promotes the company vision

+ Regular attendance and punctuality

+ Reads, understands and follows management system requirements as relevant to responsibilities, including but not limited to requirements found in the Quality Manual, SOPs, Local Work Instructions and Methods which in turn ensures compliance with ISO/IEC 17025/AOAC ALACC requirements and relevant government regulatory.

+ Adhere to all health, safety, and environmental regulations relative to assigned analytical work; maintain and assist others in maintaining a clean, safe work environment.

+ Registration of incoming samples (as needed), maintaining a neat and accurate record system of work performed on a daily basis and as needed for quality control tests or regulatory purposes.

+ Enter the sample data into Eurofins eLIMS system in a timely and accurate manner.

+ Complete laboratory testing on all incoming samples in an accurate, efficient and timely manner; ensure sample turnaround time goals are met or exceeded.

+ Verify results and submit results to the appropriate personnel for transmission, in a timely manner.

+ Identify process difficulties and report these together with proposed solutions to supervisor.

+ Maintain a perpetual state of readiness and willingness to respond to the queries and needs of clients, staff, and co-workers.

+ Maintain cooperative working relationships with all company employees. Communicate orally and in writing to co-workers. This includes "intra" and "inter" departmental employees.

+ Promote the company image through the exercising of sound and ethical business practices as related to the public and our customers.

+ Continually strive to improve the quality of work we provide to our clients through existing and new technologies

+ Identify non-conformances and out-of-specifications

+ Conducts all activities in a safe and efficient manner

+ Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

AS or BS Degree in Microbiology, Food Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry or a related field

**You should know:** Your safety matters! Vaccination against COVID-19 may be a requirement for this job in compliance with current client and governmental policies. A Kelly recruiter will confirm and share more details with you during the interview process.

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