Laboratory Attendant

**Introduction**

This position will be based at Quality Laboratory Services (QLS),Rustenburg.

**Description**

The purpose of this position is for the preparation of samples in order to obtain accurate results to monitor performance and ensure the achievement of objectives in the organisation.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Perform routine preparation of samples (crushing, pulverizing, filtering, rolling, splitting and drying)
- Completing sample checklists and logging of samples on the system
- Perform sieve sizing analyses on samples as part of sample preparation.
- Inspection and first line fault finding of sampling equipment
- Daily inspection and checks of balances at the Fire Assay section, cleaning of equipment and spillages caused by leaking pots.
- Cleaning of all laboratory equipment and instruments at the Fire Assay section
- Loading and offloading of furnaces at the Fire Assay section
- Weighing of the final Prill after the HT process
- Preparation of 6E samples (NIS)
- Storing of samples according to specifications and colour codes
- Maintain good housekeeping

**Qualification Level**
- Grade 12
- Driver’s License

**Experience and Skills Requirements**
- Minimum 1 years’ experience in sample preparation in a laboratory is required.
- Knowledge of and good understanding of the basic concepts of sample preparation, e.g. contamination, representative sample, integrity of a sample and the Fire Assay process.
- English language proficiency
- Time management