Laboratory Chemist

**Our prestigious client based in Middelburg (Mpumalanga) is looking for an experienced Laboratory Chemist.**

**Requirements**:

- Hold a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry or preferably MSc Degree in Chemistry.
- 5 - 8 years’ experience.
- Must be pro-active, innovative and demonstrate high levels of flexibility.
- Must be able to work under pressure.
- Must be able to work without direct supervision, be a self-starter and use own initiative to make decisions.
- Excellent planning and organizing skills are essential.
- Excellent planning and organizing and administrative skills are essential.
- Experience with method development, calibration, optimization, validation and analytical problem solving on XRF, OES or ICP (minimum of 3 years of experience).
- XRF experience can be excused if they have method validation experience and method development especially on ICP on more than 1 type of material (not just water or coal for example).
- Must be willing to work standby and overtime.

**Responsibilities**:

- Development and validation of new and existing analytical methods.
- Optimization of current methods.
- **Calibration of XRF, OES and LECO instrumentation.**:

- Analyses of non-routine sample to ensure accurate results are reported.
- Ensure all equipment requiring external calibration is calibrated and fit for purpose
- Trouble shooting and problem solving.
- Development and maintenance of quality assurance system and administration thereof.
- Commissioning of new equipment.
- Develop methods with current equipment meeting the criteria, quality controls and to test correctly, also to maintain quality even on old equipment.
- This is a specialist role and not a management or team manager role.