Laboratory Analyst

Description

Job Summary: Perform chemical, physical, and instrumental analyses while ensuring quality and procedural compliance in a world-leading laboratory. Key Responsibilities: 1. Performing chemical, physical, and instrumental analyses 2. Ensuring quality and compliance with procedures 3. Handling and verifying laboratory equipment **Company Description** SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company. Recognized globally as the benchmark for quality and integrity, SGS employs over 94,000 people and operates a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories worldwide. **Job Description** Perform required chemical, physical, and instrumental analyses across various laboratory areas or fields of operation, in accordance with company-established procedures. * Timely request necessary work materials and/or consumables from the immediate supervisor to ensure normal laboratory operations. * Validate test methods according to the laboratory’s quality assurance program guidelines. * Validate and report laboratory analysis results, considering internal QA/QC controls. * Ensure proper handling of all laboratory equipment under one’s responsibility and perform verification and/or execution of operational/efficiency control and calibration tasks, per laboratory-established procedures. * Ensure correct use of personal protective equipment during work execution. * Promptly inform the immediate supervisor of any non-conforming products in the process, customer complaints and/or claims, and actively participate in identifying and implementing corrective actions, improvement plans, and associated process risks. * Ensure active participation in scheduled and unscheduled internal and external audits. * Participate in identifying process-related risks. * Participate in updating procedures, instructions, and other documents, as required by the department. * Ensure compliance with organizational internal standards and procedures. * Guarantee timely entry of information into the system and timely delivery of analytical results. * Promptly inform the immediate supervisor of any damages or anomalies affecting the operation of assigned equipment or the facilities where work is performed. * Implement, maintain, and improve the laboratory quality management system, identifying deviations from this system or from procedures governing laboratory activities. * Other duties as assigned, inherent to the position. **Requirements** Academic Qualifications: Chemical Engineer, Chemical Technician and/or Technologist, Chemist, or related field. Experience: Preferably six (6) months of laboratory analysis and/or quality control experience. Technical Knowledge: Laboratory-specific knowledge; preferably laboratory quality control in accordance with NTC-ISO/IEC 17025 standard, and office software tools (Word, Excel, PPT). **Additional Information** Salary: COP 1,583,800 + Social Benefits Contract Type: Project-based or Task-based Contract