Senior Material Testers SMT25

• Senior Materials Tester is responsible to supervise and/or carry out and take responsibility for testing for all tests that the employee is deemed competent for strictly in accordance with prescribed methods.
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible for cleaning up the site or workshop after the task is completed or at the end of the day, whichever comes first, ensuring it is free of all consumables used to perform the job (masking tape tins).
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to adhere to all quality and safety requirements of the SGS management system.
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to orally report any deviations, irregularities, and nonconformances.
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by the authorized site supervisor/laboratory manager and regional manager.
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to perform all field and laboratory work including sampling, calculations, and performing test methods accurately.
• Complete timesheets accurately on a daily basis.
• Ensure discipline within his/her assigned department.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/NQF4 or an additional three years relevant experience for each year of schooling below grade 12.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience sufficient to be recognized as a qualification through Recognition of Prior Learning.
• Language: Proficiency in English (Read, write, speak).
• Computer literacy in Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Must be competent and comfortable with the SANS and THM 1 test methods.

Additional Information:

• Sampling and preparation experience advantageous.
• Administration experience will be advantageous.
• Fieldwork (densities, layer/stockpile sampling, manufacture and handle concrete cubes, DCP Ring and Ball test (road surfaces), Sand Patch, On Site Viscosity tests, Sampling of Asphalt and Bitumen).
• Competent and qualified to do all tests in all laboratory divisions including soils, asphalt, seals, concrete/aggregate.
• Do all calculations in full related to the tests mentioned above.
• Control laboratory activities such as quality control under supervision.
• Physically able and willing to work with, move, and pick up samples as and when required.

Employment Type: Contract

Vacancy: 1