Quality Technician at Ashland, LLC in Merry Hill, North Carolina

Job Description:

Avoca LLC

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 Quality Technician to join our Ashland Avoca LLC business at our Merry Hill, NC location. This is a very visible, significant role within the company and the Quality function. This position will report to the Quality Supervisor.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for performing laboratory analytical procedures in conformance with good laboratory practices to ensure product requirements, which includes but not limited to gas/liquid chromatography, wet chemistry and titrimetry


• Accurate documentation of analytical procedures using a computerized laboratory data system


• Responsible for implementing safety standards in the performance of all laboratory analyses


• Ensure outgoing materials maintain product integrity and comply with required specifications


• Ensure incoming materials comply with quality specifications


• Assist in the training and instruction of production operators in quality sampling procedures


• Conduct necessary plant equipment inspections and validations


• Understand and accept inherent dangers of laboratory analyses


• Maintain company integrity with outside individuals through professional conduct

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or 3 years analytical laboratory experience


• Ability to work on a rotating 12 hour shift schedule, including weekends and holidays


• Ability to lift weights up to 50 lbs

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Proficient computer skills and experience with laboratory information management software


• Common sense understanding of laboratory procedures to apply to situations when working independently


• Team oriented individual


• Experience working in a quality laboratory situated within a plant environment with exposure to hazardous chemicals

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.