 Providing staff with the necessary information to complete their tasks.  Managing staff to work efficiently while motivating and managing other subordinates’ performance. Assisting staff with day-to-day duties (ensuring that samples are all done as per the SOP, labelled in order, sorted in their respective storage boxes and are ready for further analysis by the digestion and ICP section, where they will be quantitatively analyzed for selected elements). Ensure that staff are… Show more  Providing staff with the necessary information to complete their tasks.  Managing staff to work efficiently while motivating and managing other subordinates’ performance. Assisting staff with day-to-day duties (ensuring that samples are all done as per the SOP, labelled in order, sorted in their respective storage boxes and are ready for further analysis by the digestion and ICP section, where they will be quantitatively analyzed for selected elements). Ensure that staff are sufficiently trained in relevant stations and standard operating procedures are followed.  Managing the work flow, technical performance and optimal productivity. Demonstrating the initiative to implement improvements and eliminate problems in day-to-day activities (by registering non-conformances, applying the necessary corrective and preventative actions to improve the system).  Ensuring the quality management system (QMS) is implemented, maintained and entrenched in their working areas. Actively using the Activ system as required for the maintenance of the QMS (where I write, edit and revise SOPs, before being approved by the ISO administrator and implemented) Ensuring that all training for employees is up to date and relevant. Conducting job observations on employees to ensure that processes are followed and the required records are signed, according to the competence of the individuals.  Communicating with the laboratory manager regarding issues that are work/staff related. Ensuring that the correct PPE is used when required, the necessary disciplinary actions are taken by the Laboratory Manager as required. Ensuring that activities that includes drying, splitting, crushing, milling and packaging of samples is done before samples are analysed in the laboratory.  Maintaining inventories of chemicals and supplies, and liaising with the administration manager for re-stock and re-orders.  Supervising wet chemistry experiments in the laboratory Show less

Assisting with day-to-day routine work.Preparing calibration standards for Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy and Ion Selective Electrode analysis.Operation of Ion Selective Electrode (ISE) ICP-OES and AA Spectrometer for the determination of various elements such as Copper, Silver, Arsenic, Aluminium, Manganese, and the like, by both partial and total digestion, using the Microwave technique. Coaching and assisting junior… Show more Assisting with day-to-day routine work.Preparing calibration standards for Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy and Ion Selective Electrode analysis.Operation of Ion Selective Electrode (ISE) ICP-OES and AA Spectrometer for the determination of various elements such as Copper, Silver, Arsenic, Aluminium, Manganese, and the like, by both partial and total digestion, using the Microwave technique. Coaching and assisting junior technicians Maintaing the GLP standards on routine analysis. Management of stock inventory and ensuring that re-orders are processed as needed. Show less

Determination of various elements using various instruments Compilation of laboratory reports using MS (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PDF)Assembling of remote laboratory and testing routine samples for Cl, Nitrates, Nitrites, Fluorides, Sulphates, and Sulphites using the WFGD and EPRI methods. Participation in Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment to ensure health and safety in the laboratory, and also writing up the Risk Assessments for the test methods. Participating in SHEQ… Show more Determination of various elements using various instruments Compilation of laboratory reports using MS (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PDF)Assembling of remote laboratory and testing routine samples for Cl, Nitrates, Nitrites, Fluorides, Sulphates, and Sulphites using the WFGD and EPRI methods. Participation in Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment to ensure health and safety in the laboratory, and also writing up the Risk Assessments for the test methods. Participating in SHEQ weekly meeting, conducted by qualified SHE representatives, to learn about the importance of Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality aspects of my work, in order to implement the operation standards, the GLP, the GMPs and achieve the desired output. Participating in internal audits scheduled by the internal accredited ISO representative, in order to ensure that the laboratory standards and daily routine activities meet the legal requirements. An academic and experimental advocate of continuous improvement (through the well-known PDCA cycle) Show less

Assisting in day-to-day laboratory routineSample receipt and preparationInventory management and controlReagents preparation, monitoring of purified water, used for routine work in the labContributing to drafting, updating and editing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other relevant documentation (including the designing of templates, forms, logsheets and record sheets). Participating in the test work to determine the elements of interests using various methods and… Show more Assisting in day-to-day laboratory routineSample receipt and preparationInventory management and controlReagents preparation, monitoring of purified water, used for routine work in the labContributing to drafting, updating and editing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other relevant documentation (including the designing of templates, forms, logsheets and record sheets). Participating in the test work to determine the elements of interests using various methods and instruments in the likes of Hach Colorimeter, Turbidimeter, WD-XRF, Bomb Calorimeter, Carbon and Sulphur analyser, etc. Show less