Your Next Opportunity: Laboratory Assistant Position Available at Minopex!
Job Title: Laboratory Assistant
Company: Minopex
Location: Saldanha Bay Rural, Western Cape
Type: Permanent
Posted: 26 April 2024
Closing Date: 07 May 2024
Job Details:
– Division: Quality Laboratory Services (Pty) Ltd
– Minimum Experience: Mid-Senior
– Company Primary Industry: Mining and Metals
– Job Functional Area: Mining
Job Description:
Introduction:
This position will be based at Quality Laboratory Services (QLS), Saldanha Bay Municipality area in the Western Cape.
Description:
This position is responsible for assisting in the preparation of samples to obtain accurate results.
Duties and Responsibilities:
– Ensure compliance with Quality Laboratory Services Health and Safety responsibilities, legal and operational requirements.
– Identify hazards and risks while performing daily tasks and take preventative measures.
– Comply with provided systems, practices, methods, standards, and procedures of the job.
– Conduct visual inspections of the work area to ensure workplace safety and good housekeeping.
– Perform routine sampling or collection of samples in operational areas.
– Perform routine preparation of samples (crushing, pulverizing, filtering, rolling, splitting, and drying).
– Perform sieve sizing analyses on samples as part of sample preparation.
– Inspection and first-line fault finding of sampling equipment.
– Daily inspection, cleaning, and unblocking of sampling equipment and spillages caused by sampling equipment.
– Cleaning of all laboratory equipment and instruments.
– Completing sample checklists and logging of samples on the system.
– Marking and labeling of sample tags and sample containers.
– Storing of samples according to specifications and color codes.
– Perform all sample preparation as per Safe Work instructions to ensure accurate results to the Client and stakeholders.
– Adhere to quality requirements, verifications, calibrations, certifications of equipment.
Qualification Requirements:
– Grade 12
– Valid driver’s license code B, EB, or C1 would be advantageous.
Experience and Skills Requirements:
– Experience in sample preparation in a laboratory will be advantageous.
– Knowledge of the basic concepts of sample preparation, e.g., contamination, representative sample, and integrity of a sample.
– English language proficiency.
– Time management.
