Quality Lab Technician - 5 am to 5 pm
Loparex LLC

Loparex is looking for a Lab Technician to join our Hammond, WI team! A Lab Technician works with production to ensure a quality product is produced to the customer standards by performing quality checks and following established safety and production procedure. You would will work Monday-Thursday 5:00am-5:00pm.

What We Offer

Base Pay Rate: $19.50 hourly, plus premiums based upon the following:

• Opportunities for additional pay increases if trained as tier 2 or higher lab tech

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plan, including health, dental, vision. Eligibility begins the first day of the month following date of hire.
• Wellness plan and discounts on health insurance
• Company-paid short-term disability and basic life insurance
• Long Term disability, basic and supplemental life insurance and flexible spending accounts
• Uniform reimbursements - including safety boots, prescription safety glasses, and clothing
• Annual fitness reimbursement
• Matching 401K plan (150% match of the first 4% employee contribution)
• Up to 104 hours of Paid time off in the first year
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Floating Holidays and Volunteer Time Off
• Bonus incentives for perfect attendance and employee referrals

Responsibilities

Job Duties:

• Cut, identify, and prepare samples of retains from production for testing, document results. Testing includes:
  
  
  • Coat Weights
  • Subsequent Adhesions
  • Release, including various wet casts and tape test
  • Extractables
  • Moisture
  • Lay flat testing
  • Physical property testing including but not limited to; basis weight, caliper, tensile, tear, gloss, and Polybond.
    
    
• Inspect samples for defects and ensure that material conforms to requirements; inform appropriate personnel when defects are found.
• Perform data entry into various computer databases (including internal rejects, reworks, PRISM< QDMS< shop floor, and excel spreadsheets) as required by quality assurance procedures.
• Put retain samples into cores for customers.
• Store internal samples into cores for customers
• File 8 1/2x 11 samples from production, document samples into spreadsheet provided.
• Purge files when needed.
• Assist quality and production in tagging or removing labels from nonconforming material (red, orange, blue)
• Assist in orientation and training or any new lab tech assigned to the shift.
• At the end of each shift make sure quality lab is clean and organized.
• Perform other associated duties, as assigned.

Skills and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 2 years plant experience
• Knowledge of laboratory procedures
• Basic math skill, and computer skills (primarily data entry)
• Good written and oral communication skills, including ability to read and interpret test procedures
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Detail oriented

Must pass all three pre-employment testings. (Lifting test, drug test, and background check.)

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