Laboratory Technician - Jobs in Burnaby

Job DescriptionThis position will conduct laboratory testing on agricultural grain, pulse, and food samples.

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 using applicable wet chemistry methods and various instruments available in the laboratory.
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 ofthe 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

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