Make an impact with SGS! With more than 94,000 employees and 2,600 offices and laboratories across the world, SGS is a silent force working hard behind the scenes to deliver quality and integrity to businesses across nine industries. As the world’s leader in providing inspection, verification, testing and certification services, Forbes ranked the SGS Group as one of the world’s top multinationals and one of the world’s most innovative companies. The Dow Jones Sustainability Index has also recognized the SGS Group for its sustainability processes. In Canada, SGS employs over 2,000 team members across 70 locations.

This position will conduct laboratory testing on agricultural (grain, greenhouse, soil, feed, forage), grain, pulse, and food samples.

• Conduct required testing on agriculture and food samples such as moisture, protein, oil, salt, toxins, falling number, dockage, variety identification, nutrition labelling, proximate analysis or other tests as seen suitable by the Lab Manager or Departmental Supervisor using applicable wet chemistry methods and various instruments (spectrophotometer, wet gluten analyser, electrophoresis, HPLC, GC, LCMSMS, ICP-OES, NIR, PCR, ELISA, etc) available in the laboratory.
• Conduct balance calibrations, pipette verifications, monitoring temperatures of water baths, fridges, freezers, etc.
• Maintain and record instrument calibrations (i.e. chromatography instruments, NIR, spectrophotometers, etc.).
• Monitor the daily conditions of  the instruments (GC, GCMS, HPLC and LCMSMS, NIR, etc).
• Perform and record preventive maintenance on GC, GC-MS, HPLC and LC – MS (Triple Quad).
• Conduct proper sample storage and disposal practices and documentation.
• Liaise and resolve customer’s queries/results with the supervisor / manager and contribute to the resolution of customer complaints.
• Validate new methods for business growth or for customer requests, and work on improving the efficiency of existing methods and SOPs as per the instructions provided by the supervisor / manager.
• Data entry into LIMS, Excel, and other data entry modules (i.e. Client data entry modules such as Grain Grading Module)
• Conduct sample pre-processing (sub sampling, homogenization, splitting, cleaning) as necessary

•  A post secondary education (degree and/or diploma) in Chemistry, Food Science etc. is required.
• A minimum of 1 – 3 years of experience in an Agricultural Food laboratory setting is required
• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 17025:1999 requirements.
• Sound knowledge of good laboratory practices.
• Familiar with official accredited methods such as AOAC, AOCS and USP methodology.
• Must be proficient in using various type of computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.).
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects in a fast-paced, highly professional environment.
• Flexibility to work extended hours from time to time.

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SGS Canada is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to achieving greater accessibility by providing accommodation for people with disabilities during our hiring process.  Accommodations are available on request for qualified candidates during each stage of the recruitment process.

Please note that candidates applying for Canadian job openings should be authorized to work in Canada.