What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Tech 2 position at Sibanye Stillwater?
Lab Tech 2
Location:
Metallurgical Complex (Analytical Lab) - Columbus, MT
Schedule:
Rotating - Super 7
Day Shift: 5:30am - 4:10pm
Night Shift: 3:30pm - 2:40am
Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Performs sample preparation, which includes operations such as filtering slurries, drying, crushing, pulverizing, and splitting of samples in order to provide a representative sample for chemical analysis. Samples include concentrator slurries, geological channel and drill cores, smelter and refinery samples.
- Perform chemical analysis using fire assay, wet chemical digestion, x-ray analysis, and instrumentation spectrometry. Analysis is inorganic including precious metals and base metals.
- Use computers and calculate results, report results and to do various other computer work.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Analytical laboratory experience required.
- Must possess equivalent skills to meet task proficiency matrix.
- Computer literate, preferably experience with Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Successful completion of the Analytical Laboratory Aptitude Test.
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