This position offers approximately 30 hours per week.
This position operates on a 24/7 basis. Employees are required to work on rotating shifts ranging from 8 - 12 hours in length with differing schedules including day shifts, afternoons shifts, night shifts and weekends.
This position requires you to have a valid driver’s license and a vehicle to transport samples.
This position is responsible for various sampling, picking up and delivering samples, cleaning samples with dockage carter/sieves, laboratory analysis, sample log-in, data entry, and reporting raw data.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Log-in, organizing, storing, distribution, and disposing of incoming samples and after final inspections
- Clean grain samples using dockage carter/sieves and prepare for grading
- Picking up and delivering samples from various locations to office or vice versa
- Operate, maintain, and calibrate laboratory equipment (moisture meters, scales, dockage, testers, protein testers, ELISA readers). Monitor all equipment according to desired standards before performing the analysis
- Perform analyses such as moisture, protein, dockage, test weight, mycotoxins, germination tests, etc.
- Analysis of miscellaneous other branch specific laboratory analyses (malt barley variety identification, audits, etc.)
- Maintaining/monitoring of basic laboratory supplies (gloves, dust masks, filter papers etc.).
- Cleaning of work areas (dusting, sweeping, etc.).
- Follow all requirements according to the Canada Grain Act and Canada Grain regulations.
- Follow CFIA protocol for sampling, CGC standards for sampling, SGS SOPs, any other client specific specs.
- Issuing initial and final reports related to food, container, industrial, etc. inspections (i.e. Government Inspection Services, GIS).
- Assist in preparing on-site final analysis reports (i.e. Perform the inspection and complete the inspection report)