Job Description

We are immediately hiring for an Entry-Level Lab Technician here in the Columbus, Ohio area! This is a long-term career opportunity and offers a great chance to get your foot in the door or to gain professional experience in a laboratory setting. The current openings we have will be performing laboratory testing on paint products and will be light chemistry focused.

These are entry-level openings looking for a candidate with a Bachelors or potentially Associates degree focused in a scientific discipline. We would also be open to considering someone without a degree who has professional laboratory experience. There will be hands on training in the role as well.

Description:

The Lab Technician performs each essential duty safely, satisfactorily, and in a timely manner. Primary duties may include:

• Understand and follow a batch ticket (recipe) with high degree of accuracy for weights and measurements.
• Perform a wide variety of complex testing processes on production batches to measure product\'s physical or chemical characteristics. Tests include, but are not limited to: viscosity, weight per unit of measure, flow, gloss, color characteristics (compared with standards), and various other similar tests. Will also perform color matching and use a spectrophotometer for color matching and to test the standards.
• Test on materials from suppliers and batches from production
• Perform standard testing procedures, including prep of materials, with attention to detail and high quality
• Accurately document work in lab notebooks (either physical or electronic)nner
• Ensure raw materials are available and correctly labelled
• Tint batches
• Calculate resin composites
• Testing on lab equipment-viscosity, pH, weight per gallon, % solids

Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelors\' or Associates\' Degree in a scientifici field or can be non-degreed with professional laboratory experience

About Actalent:

Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We\'re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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