Job Description

Company Description

Make an impact with SGS! With more than 94,000 employees and 2,000 offices and laboratories across the world, we are the world's leader in providing inspection, verification, testing and certification services. SGS is a silent force working hard behind the scenes to deliver quality and integrity to businesses across nine industries. In Canada, SGS employs over 2,000 team members across 70 locations.

• Conduct required testing on agriculture and food samples such as moisture, protein, oil, salt, toxins, falling number, dockage, variety identification, nutrition labelling, proximate analysis or other tests as seen suitable by the Lab Manager or Departmental Supervisor using applicable wet chemistry methods and various instruments (ie. spectrophotometer, wet gluten analyzer, electrophoresis, HPLC, GC, LCMSMS, ICP-OES, NIR, PCR, ELISA, etc) available in the laboratory.
• Accountable for performing and recording routine and non routine instrument maintenance (i.e. GC, GCMS, HPLC and LCMSMS, NIR, etc).
• Conduct balance calibrations, pipette verifications, monitoring temperatures of water baths, fridges, freezers, etc.
• Maintain and record instrument calibrations (i.e. chromatography instruments, NIR, spectrophotometers, etc.).
• Monitor the daily conditions of the instruments (GC, GCMS, HPLC and LCMSMS, NIR, etc).
• Perform and record preventive maintenance on GC, GC-MS, HPLC and LC - MS (Triple Quad).
• Conduct proper sample storage and disposal practices and documentation.
• Liaise and resolve customer's queries/results with the supervisor / manager and contribute to the resolution of customer complaints.
• Validate new methods for business growth or for customer requests, and work on improving the efficiency of existing methods and SOPs as per the instructions provided by the supervisor / manager.
• Data entry into LIMS, Excel, and other data entry modules (i.e. Client data entry modules such as Grain Grading Module)
• Conduct sample pre-processing (sub sampling, homogenization, splitting, cleaning) as necessary

Qualifications

• In the process of completing a degree and/or diploma in a Science related program (Chemistry, Agriculture, Food Science etc.) is required.
• A minimum of 1 - 3 years of experience in an Agricultural laboratory setting is an asset.
• Familiar with Agricultural and Food matrixes an asset.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 17025:1999 requirements an asset.
• Sound knowledge of good laboratory practices.
• Familiar with official accredited methods such as AOAC, AOCS and USP methodology an asset.
• Must be proficient in using various type of computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.)

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Additional Information

SGS Canada is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to achieving greater accessibility by providing accommodation for people with disabilities during our hiring process. Accommodations are available on request for qualified candidates during each stage of the recruitment process

Please note that candidates applying for Canadian job openings should be authorized to work in Canada