Laboratory Analyst

ISP Technologies Inc. Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us. Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Journeyman Laboratory Technician to join our Ashland, Inc. (ISP Technologies, Inc.) business at our Texas City, Texas plant. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Quality Assurance function. This position will report to the Quality Assurance Manager. The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Work with the Quality Assurance Department to ensure department and Company goals are achieved and products manufactured at Ashland's Texas City site meet the quality standards required by our customers, ISO, cGMP and other regulatory requirements.
• Perform laboratory tests by: titrations, pH, color measurements, anions by IC, refractive index, viscosity, gas chromatography, spectrophotometers, impurities by HPLC, and other tests as required
• Maintain detailed legible and neat records of analytical work performed in log books, forms, documents and computer entries.
• Perform and document daily and weekly calibration checks, stability checks, system suitability tests of instruments and conduct calculations according to policies and procedures.
• Record and validate data in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
• Prepare and standardize solutions as needed to assure solutions are within expiration date.
• Report results, difficulties or abnormalities to appropriate personnel then enter data in appropriate data system when required.
• Compare analytical tests and calculations with published specifications and reports results.
• Properly store and label all chemicals, solutions, and solvents in designated safe storage areas.
• Maintain continuous good housekeeping practices, clean work and break areas, dispose samples as needed, and clean glassware.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Participate in Safety and Environmental initiatives that will contribute to compliance of State/Federal regulations and improve existing Company programs.
• Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals and focusing on performance and safety.
• Improve the organization capacity and capabilities through building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent and utilizing positive communications and influence with others.

What This Role Is Not:

• Not a management position - while you will collaborate with other team members, this is an hourly, union affiliated role with no direct reports
• Not an office b.

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