Corrosion Laboratory Technician

Corrosion Laboratory Technician Houston, TX

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world's top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Corrosion Laboratory Technician to join our team in Houston, TX.

Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world.

We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide.

Our Purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life

What are we looking for?

The Corrosion Laboratory Technician will perform the routine duties necessary to ensure that laboratory services are of the highest quality, and to ensure that such services are provided in a timely, safe, legal, and ethical manner.

Salary & Benefits Information

Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.

Under moderate supervision, to perform the routine duties necessary to ensure that laboratory services are of the highest quality, and to ensure that such services are provided in a timely, safe, legal, and ethical manner.

Specific Responsibilities


* To receive, examine, and record through a log-in process, inbound items for testing.


* To deliver test samples to the sample staging area.


* Clean glassware and other lab wares using specified procedure


* To monitor the availability of the supplies needed for the testing processes, and to make any needs for such supplies known to Laboratory Management.


* To prepare samples and quality control specimens, to prepare and standardize reagents and solutions, and to calibrate equipment needed for the testing processes.


* Prepare corrosion coupons for experiments


* To prepare microbiological growth media and maintain microbial cultures.


* Conduct biocide-microbial kill testing


* Conduct microbial growth control utilizing sand pack and Sidestream apparatus


* Perform inorganic scale inhibitor testing


* Conduct rotating cylinder electrode (RCE) experiments, measuring the corrosion rate via electrochemistry


* Perform coupon weight loss experiments in autoclaves at temperature and pressure


* Operate corrosion coupon flow loop equipment for inhibitor evaluation


* Safely utilize a variety of chemicals including biocides, acids, corrosion inhibitors, flammable liquids


* To verify and communicate the results obtained, and to make the appropriate entries into instrument logs, control charts, calibration records, laboratory worksheets, and any other...