Quality Control Laboratory Technician

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Control Laboratory Technician located in Marietta, GA.

About you and this role - What you will do in this role

This opportunity is in the Marietta Systems House, one of 13 operations units in the Global Systems House business. This plant exists to produce polyol and isocyanate blends and pre-polymers for our customer base in North America. The plant is semi-automated and requires the ability to interact with a process control system and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. The successful candidate in this position would be an active participant in the day-to-day operations. *The plant reserves the right to change shift assignment based on business needs

Responsibilities - Duties, projects, tasks, and activities you would be responsible for in this role

• Test chemical products safely and accurately according to the laboratory procedures.
• Learn, follow and update/improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Participate on various plant teams (Safety, LORC, etc.)
• Multi-task and work as part of a team to complete daily activities.
• The plant operate three shifts; from 5:30 am to 2:00 pm, 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm and 9:30pm-6:00am. This position is for the 9:30pm to 6:00am Sunday evening through Thursday evening shift. *The plant reserves the right to change shift assignment based on business needs
• Ability to cover overtime as needed and occasionally weekends.
• Interfacing with SAP by downloading product specifications, assigning/associating family inspection plans and inspection profiles to NASH products.
• Titration, GC analysis, LC analysis, NIR, FTIR, and performance testing
• Maintain the quality analytical records in LIMS and ECC. This includes maintaining the database production and quality control parameters, logging the data, filing and disposing of the production records in accordance with Dow policies. Also required is editing the WebEDMS directory to include the Production Records (ODMS requirement).
• Investigate incoming raw material CoA conflicts and resolve by QM or GPDIS updates.
• In addition to being capable of performing standard laboratory testing, the candidate will be responsible for maintaining global and local databases.  

Qualifications - Required education, experience and abilities that are needed for this role (must haves)

• Must have one or more of the following:
  • Associates Degree or Higher in related field.
  • High School diploma or GED equivalent AND 5 or more years of qualitative lab experience.
• Must be able and willing to work over-time on the weekends and holidays.
• Must be able and willing to work a rotating shift. Shift times for this position are:
  • 1st: 5:30am – 2pm
  • 2nd: 1:30pm -10pm
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Skills - An expanded list of qualifications that are "nice to have", but not essential

• Bachelors degree in Chemistry or related field.  
• 5 or more years of working experience with laboratory equipment, calibration, and method development for auto-titrators, UV-Vis spectroscopy, FTIR, GC and HPLC.

Physical Requirements:
Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Lift, push, and pull.
• Frequent bending, reaching, and lifting
• Stand and walk for extended periods of time
• Work in tight and closed in spaces.
• Wear all required personal protective equipment, including but not limited to respirator.

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