Job Summary:
The chemistry lab technician will involve sample preparation of organic compounds. The position is a temporary 4-month, 40 hours a week, doing chemical mixing and fabrication of samples using an established process. With project success, the position can transition into a full-time permanent status.
Responsibilities:
- Use hand tools to remove and preparing the samples.
- Use vent hood and the appropriate PPE to prepare samples.
- Interface heavily with principal investigators, laboratory staff and technical leads.
- Make complex decisions independently and referring unprecedented issues to technical leads while working under limited supervision.
- Mix solgels and pouring into molds.
- Work collaboratively on teams by interacting with other scientists, engineers, and technicians.
- Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling, processing, and test analyses.
- Prepare form reports for customers as required.
- Maintain accurate records of ongoing research and laboratory safety standards, as specified, and required by federal and international regulation.
- Adhere to the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
- Assure that all remedial actions are taken whenever test systems deviate.
- Complies with industrial hygiene and safety standards and requirements in the workplace.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and two (2) or more years of relevant experience OR Associate’s degree and four (4) or more years of relevant experience.
- Academic lab experience.
- Experience/proficiency in mixing organic compounds.
- Good problem-solving skills and the willingness to solve complex problems using a systematic approach.
- Experience working with complex chemical reactions (rates, gels, etc.)
- Motivated to meet analysis deadlines while working in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with laboratory procedures and health and safety concerns involving potentially hazardous agents.
- Essential to the success in this role will be excellent verbal and written skills in the English language.
- Must be eligible for a secret or high security.
- Successful background and drug screening check.
Preferred Requirements:
- Degree in chemistry.
- Mechanical proficiency.
- Certification in 40-hour Hazardous Material Technician course
Physical Demands or Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The majority of the time is spent in an office setting.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance, vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
- Frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.
About ZelTech
ZelTech is a minority owned small business (NAICS 541715) specializing in customer threat reduction. We provide a full spectrum of threat reduction services from planning, training, operations, R&D, advising, and solution prototyping across our services and solutions business groups. We combine best of breed engineering practices, subject matter expertise, design services, computer science, and data analytics with innovative approaches in artificial intelligence and machine learning, AR/VR, R&D, and physics-based modeling and simulation providing tailored solutions addressing our customer’s unique threat requirements.
Our Mission
We provide customers with the knowledge, tools, and solutions needed for correct and timely decisions and effective actions to help ensure U.S. national security.
Diversity Workforce
ZelTech team members represent a wide range of backgrounds, skills, experience, and personalities bound together by common objectives and mutual respect. You will join a caring community of professional, including many military veterans who challenge and support each other in seeking the right solutions to important matters.
Equal Opportunities
Zel Tech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, military status, genetic predisposition, or any other basis protected by law.
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