Technician, Lab , LP​/BC

Position: Technician, Lab 4, LP/BC
Company:

INEOS Oxide

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees share in the ownership of the business and are empowered to make a difference?

Organizational context

and job purpose

INEOS Organization:

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 15 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 65 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries throughout the world. INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Its businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, and medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

Business Context:

INEOS Oxide is one of the most diverse, dynamic and successful businesses within INEOS. We operate 5 manufacturing sites in Europe and North America (Antwerp BE, Köln DE, Lavéra FR, Plaquemine US, Bayport, US). We produce a broad range of 200+ products which spread across five key value chains (Ethylene Oxide, Propylene Oxide, Oxoalcohols, Acetic Acid, and ENB), and on many of our products we are the European market leader.

Our total manufacturing capacity is above 3 million tonnes per annum generating an annual EBITDA of ~300 M€. INEOS Oxide is an energetic business which is growing actively on a global level, with projects to extend our production base to new sites in North America and Asia in addition to continued investment on our existing platforms. We are committed to resourcing the Procurement team accordingly to deliver on this ambitious growth agenda.

Purpose of the Job:

The Laboratory Technician reports to the Laboratory Supervisor and is part of the site Quality Group. The Laboratory Technician is responsible for safely providing accurate and timely sample results for quality conformance, for operational process control, to fulfill special customer requirements, or in support of troubleshooting or improvement projects.

Responsibilities AND Accountabilities

* Follow all safety/PPE rules and actively promote safety issues such as behavior-based safety, safety audits, safety committee meetings, safety improvement reports, job safety analysis, safety inspections, etc.

* Directly responsible for understanding, promoting and upholding the INEOS 20 Principles.

* Directly responsible for understanding and following INEOS Oxide Life Saving Rules.

* Directly responsible for understanding and completing all regular Cybersecurity training and awareness campaigns.

* Perform routine testing to determine product quality status as specified by the product specification system.

* Perform routine testing to support unit production or process control as specified by the inline testing schedules or requests from the manufacturing units.

* Perform non-routine testing with the assistance of the laboratory staff.

* Accurately input all data into LIMS system.

* Proactively and continuously clean the laboratory and equipment to display and maintain the housekeeping standards necessary for a world-class organization.

* Follow the rules of statistical process control (SPC) on laboratory test results to assure the measurement system is in statistical control.

* Actively promote quality goals and demonstrate attention to quality in job performance.

* Check operation of testing equipment, troubleshoot equipment to identify and/or correct source of problem, perform required routine preventative maintenance, and notify the shift team leader of any abnormalities or maintenance requirements.

* Schedule work to meet priorities.

* Conduct job tasks in a professional manner utilizing good housekeeping practices and laboratory technique.

* Participate as required safety or quality work teams to improve the current systems.

* Work as part of the laboratory team to accomplish organization goals.

* Improved and consistent housekeeping practices on shift to meet Asset Care expectations.

The candidate is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a 24/7/365 laboratory. The employee must be able to manage routine and non-routine samples and workloads while communicating with operations, product movement, and other site departments. Internal factors will be supporting operations, Environmental critical samples, process safety sampling and maintaining instrumentation and tools. This position works a rotating shift and will be expected to work overtime.

This worker is required to work with ethylene oxide. A complete commitment to safety is not negotiable.

Internal Factors:

Sedentary Work:
Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

This worker is required to work with ethylene oxide. A…