Description

At Corteva Agriscience, you will help us grow what’s next. No matter what your role, you will be part of a team that is building the future of agriculture – solving the world’s food problems through innovation, technology, and putting people first. Corteva Agriscience has an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Lab Technician at our Valdosta GA location. In this role, you will operate the processes of the manufacturing unit to meet safety, environmental, production, yield, and quality requirements. As you move through levels of responsibility to fulfil the role of a Lab Technician your opportunity to grow and develop your career with our business increases!

**Please note there is no relocation allowance or visa sponsorship available for this position. **

Benefits:

Let’s peek at how you can grow your wellbeing, health, and future at Corteva!

• Strike a better work-life balance with robust time off benefits; new hires start with 4 weeks off each year. We also have excellent paid maternity, paternal and family illness leave.
• Prepare for your future with our competitive retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement program, and more.
• Enjoy access to health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment.
• And much, much more!

Responsibilities – What You Will Do:

How will you help us grow? It matters to us, and it matters to you!

• Develop working knowledge of all the Valdosta manufacturing site’s laboratory methods to support the business units and operating areas.
• Perform quality management processes in the laboratory and assist in supporting similar quality management processes throughout the site, such as ISO 9001.
• Perform routine, non-routine analyses and other tasks necessary in order to ensure effective operation in support of manufacturing.
• Maintain analytical results, laboratory instrumentation, standardization, and equipment documents as quality records, to ensure accuracy of data produced.
• Assist analytical and development chemists and operations leadership to correct, resolve and improve results, and investigate problems and complaints from all parts of the business.
• Operate various analytical instruments to perform all routine and non-routine analytical tasks associated with product and environmental samples both in the quality laboratory.
• Adapt new analytical methods to the Valdosta manufacturing site with the guidance of a chemist or quality leader to support new products and analytical needs for existing products.
• Handle laboratory waste in a safe and effective manner in compliance with Corteva Agriscience guidelines and local and federal laws.
• Provide documentation for analytical methods, in support of the quality system.
• Troubleshoot routine methods used in the production unit labs to support operations.
• Train other laboratory technicians in the use of routine laboratory methods, to ensure that everyone can solve method or other analytical problems.
• Accept constructive feedback from the quality leader as part of the laboratory’s continuous improvement efforts in all pertinent areas.
• Participate in incident investigations, team meetings, and continuous improvement activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Requirements – Who You Are:

What expertise have you grown? What do you bring to the table?

• When a problem occurs, you look for a solution to fix it!
• You value working as a team, are proactive, communicate concerns, and are accepting of change.
• You have a High School Diploma/GED.
• You have Chromatography experience.
• You have 2 years of laboratory experience (in school and/or work).
• You have experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting laboratory instrumentation (i.e. balances, titrators, LC, GC, pH meters).
• You have experience performing analyses using analytical techniques.
• You are comfortable with computers and have basic Microsoft Office and computer skills.
• You are comfortable with basic mathematical equations; add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• You value safety and are committed to following all safety protocols to work safely.
• You are a clear communicator and work effectively with others.
• You can read, comprehend, and follow procedures/instructions written in English.
• You understand that delivering to our customers on-time keeps us viable and are willing and able to work a rotating shift (i.e. 8, 10, 12 hour) including weekends with some opportunity for overtime hours and holiday work required during seasonal peaks to achieve business goals.

Preferences – It Would Be Great If You Have:

• An Associates or Bachelors degree in a Natural Science, Chemistry, or similarly related field.
• Experience working with LIMS, SAP, or a similar software.

Ready to grow your perspectives, impact and career? We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team. Start by applying to this opportunity today!