QC Lab Technician
Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America
Operations
Tucker, GA, USA
USD 21-24 / hour
Posted on May 20, 2025
What We Offer
- $21 - $24 per hour
- 3rd shift, 6:00 PM – 6:30 AM, 2/2/3
- On-the-job training for 2-weeks on 1st shift (7:00 AM – 3:30 PM)
- Health benefits, including telehealth medical services
- Opportunity for advancement
- Referral program
- High school diploma or GED
- 2-year Community College; OR
- Associate degree in Chemistry or Biology
- 1 year as a laboratory technician; OR
- 5+ years of production experience
- Ability to read and comprehend documents such as safety rules, Material Safety Data Sheets, batch sheets, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and work instructions
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, and Word
- SAP knowledge
- Experience with Brookfield viscometers, Gardner Color comparators, and/or Mettler Softening Point determination
- Experience in a controlled lab environment
- Demonstrate a bias for action – translates goals and objectives
- Ability to complete documentation correctly
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to apply practical understanding to daily situations and carry out written and/or oral instructions
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations
- Demonstrated ability to provide positive leadership
- Ability to lift 50+ pounds
- Ability to bend and walk for the duration of the shift
- Participate in the general housekeeping of the lab area
- Enter and backup all QA data test results in SAP
- Maintain critical equipment and laboratory inventory supplies to support continuous uninterrupted QA lab support
- Maintain and manage obsolete (expired, damaged, and returned goods), off-spec and rejected material storage area for finished products to minimize waste generation
- Ensure that all customer complaints are checked within 48 hours and reported to management
- Comply with company policies and procedures
- Collect time sensitive samples
- Retain inventory for raw materials and finished products
- Provide timely and accurate QA information to production and distribution such as proper documentation, communication of released material, and label pallets that are rejected
- Complete, maintain, and process all other pertinent paperwork and records
- Immediately notify all affected personnel of any rejected batch/lot number prior to release of material
- Proactive in meeting functions for Quality, Safety, Housekeeping, and waste minimization
- Communicate all critical issues and problems concerning QA, test equipment problems, schedule changes, and assignments to the facility technical manager
- Volunteer to help where needed to get job done and enhance skills
- Work with some direction and supervision of Senior Lab Technicians and the facility technical manager
- Perform other tasks as assigned