Senior Lab Technician Green Street 1st Shift

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At Mohawk Industries, we’re committed to more – more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what’s important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

The Sr Lab Technician is a mid-level contributor that works to help solve problems of expanded complexity and scope. The primary purpose of this position is to support manufacturing by conducting laboratory testing and ensuring product quality and consistency through accurate sampling, testing, and communication with product development, R&D, and production.

• Retrieve representative samples of for testing and retain records
• Ability to perform all methods and procedures under the Physical Lab Technician I scope
• Perform various tests on samples, including DSC, ICP, GC-MS, ash, melt flow, flex modulus, and other analytical testing procedures
• Compile and analyze testing data, preparing graphs, charts, and reports for appropriate personnel
• Coordinate testing for project submissions from the different departments
• Conduct more complex testing, analysis, and coordinate with physical lab technicians to complete project work
• Compare and contrast samples to provide understanding of competitive positioning or root cause for a problem.
• Manage reworks, reprocesses, and potential off-quality from sample submissions
• Ensure laboratory samples represent the manufacturing process and can be reproduced on a production scale
• Perform wet chemistry, mix standards, create dilutions for calibrations and analysis
• Retrieve, verify, and retain certificates of analysis for purchased material standards.
• Attend any job-related training deemed necessary by supervision
• Follow all established standard operating and safety procedures as well as company policies
• Perform general housekeeping duties as necessary
• Actively participate in group activities and collaborates with team.
• Provide basic analysis and apply knowledge from experience or standard procedure to solve problems.
• Perform other duties as needed.  

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• 0-2 years’ relevant experience as a Physical Lab Technician I OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
• May be required to use department specific database systems
• Working knowledge of various raw materials involved including their unique physical properties, both as individual components and when utilized in a collective recipe
• Familiarity with DSC equipment, melt flow equipment, ashing oven, injection-molding equipment, equipment to test flex modulus, and equipment to test tensile strength (Tinius Olsen)
• Knowledge of colors and chemicals, sufficient knowledge to test products and communicate to other employees about this information
• Basic Excel knowledge including logging inventory information into Excel sheets, using conversion formulas, and sharing data to necessary groups
• Knowledge in running programs, software, and systems such as AS400, spectrographs, JD Edwards System/Cardex Program

• Applies conceptual knowledge of the theories, practices, and procedures within a discipline.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Compile and interpret data, create, and manipulate spreadsheets, and communicate results to other personnel affected 

• Occasional exposure to hazardous conditions caused by noise, moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and other conditions associated with a Laboratory Environment.
• Bending, crouching, and stooping may be required.
• The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly most of the day.
• The ability to lift 50 pounds regularly.

• Occasional exposure to hazardous conditions caused by noise, moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and other conditions associated with a Laboratory Environment.
• Bending, crouching, and stooping may be required.
• The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly most of the day.
• The ability to lift 50 pounds regularly.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.