Laboratory Assistant - Saldanha Bay Rural at Minopex

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Quality Laboratory Services Health and Safety responsibilities, legal and operational requirements
• Identify hazards and risk 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 labelling of sample tags and sample containers
• Storing of samples according to specifications and colour 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 licence 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