Job Description
JOB TITLE: Laboratory Coordinator
SUMMARY: Oil and Petroleum Operations Coordinators receive, record, and distribute work orders to lab employees based on customers’ requests for service by performing the following duties; Makes decisions on lab qualification appropriate to nature of assignment and staff levels required to cover the assignment based upon job type, customer requirements and on the job experience. Ensures lab personnel is available to meet all required aspects of the assignment.
Essential Duties And Reponsibilities
- Receive orders from specialized clients, written and/or verbal.
- Create and maintain job files.
- Prepare and issue job orders and lab instructions.
- Ensure all required information is distributed and is understood by lab personnel.
- Keeps all parties fully informed as required during the course of the assignment.
- Report any irregularities to management.
- Represent Inspectorate by appearance and conduct.
- Behaves ethically at all times.
- Fill in for laboratory when the need arises.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Coordination Responsibilities
- Ensure full and adequate coverage of all laboratory assignments.
- Ensure laboratory personnel are adequately staffed to complete assignments – including safety equipment, training, and correct and calibrated lab equipment.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the normal knowledge, skill, and/or ability levels required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or general education development certificate (GED). Knowledge of company HS&E procedures and associated governmental regulations.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to groups of customers or employees. Must demonstrate good communication skills.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to understand and plan for the effective performance of work assignments, and prepare documented action plans and instructions in written, oral, and/or diagrammatic form. Ability to deal rapidly and effectively with problems involving many variables in standardized situations. Ability to make independent decisions and communicate same to staff, senior management, and customers
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Valid driver’s license required.
Physical Demands
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle and feel objects, tools, or controls; and to talk and hear.
- The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and smell.
- The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands with arms.
- Employee may be required to climb and descend stairways and ladders.
- The employee must sometimes lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds (with assistance).
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the laboratory related duties, the employee regularly works near flammable material.
- Regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and extreme heat.
- Appropriate safety training is provided.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
