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About the Position:

As a Lab Assistant, your primary role will be to assist with the preparation, analysis, and disposal of client samples and under supervision perform routine laboratory procedures.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Weigh samples, look for boxes, scan boxes to location and return them to the proper location after weighing;


• Sort and organize boxes and labels;


• Clean and maintain orders of lab wares and ensure they are returned to the proper location;


• Adhere to clean-up schedules to ensure that balances and weigh stations are clean, tidy and in working order;


• Perform other clean-up tasks as required;


• Maintain inventory records for standard materials & certain weighing room items;


• Report equipment/ balance breakdowns to supervisor;


• Report any quality issue (e.g., coarse sample, mix-up) to supervisors and/or lead hands;


• Maintaining balance verification records and ensure the staff in the weighing room adhere to all routine balance maintenance schedules;


• Perform fluoride fusions, sample transferring;


• Perform inventory count and advise supervisor or shift leaders of low levels of supplies, standards or chemicals required for continued operation;


• Run specific gravity, moisture and density analysis;






• Perform certain leaching and filtration procedures;


• Load samples for CO2 or LECO instruments with minimum supervision;


• Handling routine digestion procedures;


• Running pH and conductivity independently;


• Responsible for training new staff in the weighing room;


• May assist Lab Analysts (T) in training of A3;


• Use correct methods in accordance with the established procedures and schedules while ensuring analytical quality;


• Observe established safety regulations and comply with all ALS health and safety policies and procedures;


• Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor or Manager.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Robust analytical and mechanical skills;


• Organized and highly motivated individual;


• Excellent hand eye coordination;


• Detail oriented individual with a strong commitment to quality;


• Ability to work independently or as part of a team;


• Ability to effectively handle a high volume of work and time critical issues;


• Intermediate English communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills;


• Intermediate computer skills including MS Word, Excel and Outlook;


• Familiarity with any of the following would be an asset:


• Calibration of routine instruments


• Evaluation of QC Checks and calibration standards


• Analyses of all partial and total digestions


• Chemical and physical interferences in geological analyses


• Detection limits