Title: Oil Lab Technician
Location: Nottingham
We have an exciting opportunity for an Oil Lab Technician to join our team in Nottingham, As part of the RS Oil Testing laboratory services team, you will perform time critical analytical testing in accordance with specified standards and in accordance with the company’s accreditations and approvals.
The oil analysis laboratory offers oil, fluid testing and specialist analytical services to customers across the world, providing insight into the condition of the machines from which the samples have been taken. A range of analytical techniques are used to monitor and assess fluid condition and chemistry, as well as troubleshooting issues as they develop and providing root cause analysis of specialist samples.
What you will be doing:
Work as part of the team, utilising analytical test and measurement equipment to exact requirements in accordance with the necessary accreditations and standards (ISO 9001, 14001 and so forth).
Display the required level of productivity required to ensure that service levels to our customers are met, to enable items to be despatched within the departments published turnaround times.
Support the department with administration tasks and material handling when necessary.
Work to methodologies in line with best practices.
What do I need to be successful?
If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:
A passion for science and/or engineering.
Customer focused
Great collaborative worker.
Ability to prioritise assigned tasks effectively.
Evidence of working effectively with others
Degree/ City & Guilds / ONC / BTEC in a relevant STEM field (or equivalent experience)
Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel
We are RS Group.
At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible. Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.
We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues, and communities – to solve problems.
We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.
Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.
