Lab Technician

Job Description:
**Job Description**:
Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 93,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.
- "Quality has always been a key element of 3M’s success and will be even more important into the future. Expanding and deepening our culture of quality will enable us to better serve our customers, deliver premium returns for our shareholders and maximize value for all of our stakeholders.”_ - Mike Roman, Chairman and CEO, 3M

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Lab Technician (*) at the quality lab of the 3M Zwijndrecht production site, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

- _ Performing specific in process and final lab testing, necessary to guard quality standards of products during the production process._
- _ Using a large range of different analytical techniques for testing samples of a big range of products_
- _ Reporting results in the quality databases and communicate them to production operations._
- _ Defining properties of nonconforming products, anticipating to problems in production operations_
- _ Critically evaluating test results, preventing quality related problems_
- _ Assisting with the development of new and improved testing procedures_
- _ Being part of problem solving teams_

Your Skills and Expertise
- _ A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemistry or equivalent by experience_
- _ A good knowledge of Dutch and English_
- _ You are a team player but you can also work independently_

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include
- _ Curiosity _to increase your knowledge and expertise in new techniques, products and tests_
- _ Experience with a large range of analytical techniques_

Supporting Your Well-being
- Fair, performance-oriented and competitive payment is fundamental for 3M. To be attractive to the best talents, we regularly monitor the standards in the market. In addition, depending on the position and location, a wide range of social benefits is offered - including, for instance, additional payments such as vacation pay, a company pension and benefits under collective agreements and non-tariff agreements. A good work-life balance is the best basis for motivated employees, therefore flexibility has been part of our DNA since the beginning. We want your job suits best to your life situation - not the other way around Depending on the position and possibilities, we offer individual, flexible work models.

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