Senior Chemist - West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa - SGS

SGS

Verified Company

West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa

6 days ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Company Description

SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 97,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.

Job Description:

Must be able to record, evaluate and validate all instrumentation.
Responsible for all daily document requirements and the distribution to the different departments.
Responsible for the monthly time sheet accounting.
Routinely provide training to Chemists & Technicians
Completes tasks within the allocated time and plans work for operators to ensure that overall service goals of the laboratory are met.
Responsibility to performs routine and nonroutine Analytical operation on instrumentation if and as required.
Responsible for the supervision of all instrumentation analysis and reporting of results.
Responsibility to ensure turnaround time is adhered to at all times, for work specified in regard to instrumentation analysis.
Responsibility to initiate a formal improvement request when a deviation from the system occurs, possible improvements are identified or when nonconformity is identified.
Complies and conforms to the Laboratory Quality Management System (ISO17025)
Responsibility, under the guidance of section manager, to modify and develop methods for instrumentation analysis.
Responsibility, under the guidance of section manager, to validate any new methods or modifications made for instrumentation analysis.
Responsibility to bring all problems (technical and managerial) to the attention of the section manager.
Take control of all quality issues in instrumentation and help with resolving IRs and Complaints
Oversee the Preparation and reading/ titration of all instrumentation samples and their reporting, with a view to meet all deadlines
Interact with the Customer Service Department and provide ERDs when these are required
Be actively involved in the day to day running of the instrumentation department
Help with instrument problem solving whenever required
Interact with Service Engineers whenever they are servicing the instruments so that instrumentation is always fully aware of what they are doing
Work cooperatively with all instrumentation staff to ensure that all are committed to the goal and objectives of the Department and turnaround times are met.
Adhere to all quality and safety requirements of the SGS management system.
Responsibility to adhere to all quality, health and safety rules and regulations.
Responsibility to ensure housekeeping for general instrumentation area is kept up to standard.
Responsibility to identify areas where new system documentation is required, amendments need to be made or where existing documentation requires review.
Responsibility to ensure that all documents, forms and records are of the appropriate version.
Responsibility to ensure correct consumables and chemicals are received and used for instrumentation analysis.
Perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by direct line manager.