Laboratory Technician

Reporting directly to the Laboratory Manager, the Laboratory Technician is a key role which includes robust and rigorous testing of products to ensure they reach the correct quality, safety requirements and company standards. You will be responsible for carrying out product compliance testing, logging and reporting results, enabling corrective action to be taken. You will carry out testing of incoming raw materials and following safe systems of work to ensure continuous production of finished goods with occasional shift work when required. Main responsibilities include but are not restricted to:

• Testing products from the Pozament and wider Tarmac business
• Safe operation of laboratory machinery
• Ensuring workplace tidiness
• Ensure equipment is within calibration
• Working to achieve laboratory safety goals
• Achieve laboratory KPIs ensuring customer demand is met
  
  This is a varied, complex and rewarding position in which the ideal Laboratory Technician will be able to demonstrate an understanding of raw material usage in cementitious products to be able to make decisions during optimization of finished goods. They will have excellent time management to enable testing to be carried out in an efficient manner thus reducing any downtime with production waiting for direction., Have a good understanding of company Health & Safety policies and procedures
• Demonstrate safe working practices
• Be IT literate with experience using Databases to test and record product performance
• Hold experience of sentencing products
• Follow NCR procedure for non-conforming material.
  
  At Tarmac, 'who you are' matters. We want to get to know you. If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. Tarmac is the UK's leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country's long-term future.
We are currently looking for an experienced Laboratory Technician at our Swains Park plant in Swadlincote, Derbyshire. The site is easily accessible from Coalville, Tamworth, Lichfield, Cannock, Rugeley, Stafford, Burton Upon Trent, Derby, Castle Donnington, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Leicester, Lutterworth, Nuneaton, Birmingham, Solihull and the surrounding areas. Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it's important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Along with the role of Laboratory Technician we additionally offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives and benefits:
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
• Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc. (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & Carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female Voice, and Menopause
• Training and development opportunities, Salary Competitive Salary + Overtime + Benefits Package