Laboratory Technician
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Ran a variety of tests, did quality control, and other tasks while adhering to SOPs. A standard day at work usually consisted of communication with the other lab technicians, The technician was required to multitask, sometimes running multiple tests on the same or different products at the same time. The lab technician must know basic to intermediate math skills, and data entry was performed daily.As a technician, I ran a variety of tests on coal, coke, soil and oil samples for Conti Testing Laboratories. We tested the samples for many different qualities. Amongst the most common tests were moisture content, ash content, Btu, FSI (free swelling index), fluidity, sulfur content, LOI (loss on ignition), volatile matter, mercury, oxidation, and chlorine.