Lab Technician Resume

QUALIFICATIONS:

25 years experience in mechanical testing, laboratory management, supervision, good working knowledge of ASTM, API, ASME, and CSA specifications, ASNT level 1 ultrasonics, adept to working within ISO 9002, ISO 9001/2008, API Q1 guidelines, extensive experience in metallurgical test sample preparation and machining, metallography, insitu metallography, replication (acetate film and struers repliset), chemical analysis, quality assurance/quality control, customer service/sales, manufacturing and production.
Extensive computer knowledge, and a good communicator.

EMPLOYMENT:

Lab Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Ran Spectro Maxx OES, did metallography, sample prep, contract/report review, customer service.

Lab Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing laboratory & personnel. Assisted where needed in destructive testing and metallography, trouble - shot heat treat and material problems, managed quality management system, purchased machinery.
Laid out and designed new lab, and oversaw the remodel.

Sr Materials Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Assisted in lab management and failure analysis.
Also did sample preparation and testing, “as-received” photography and photo micrographs, field replication, sample machining.
Read and interpreted specifications, chemistries, test results and customer instructions. Helped set up the laboratory quality management system.

Quality Manager/Safety Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating and overseeing a quality management system for a company that produces oil & gas drilling products, such as mud pumps and blowout preventers, wrote SOP’s, enforced quality control throughout the company, and resolved quality issues.
Supervised equipment inspections, photographed and documented non-conforming products, and worked with manufacturer on resolutions.
Witnessed product testing, entered data into material control software, and issued reports. Worked with many API specifications, such as spec Q1, 16A, 16D, 7K, 8A and 4F. Aided in expediting, interfaced between production, sales and shipping/receiving.
Performed many material control duties such as producing requisitions for production materials, and seeing that production progressed accordingly in order to meet scheduled deadlines. Reported directly to V.P. of operations.

Laboratory/QC Superintendant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the management of the mechanical testing lab that qualified the heat treated product.
Oversaw the heat treatment of the pipe and ensured proper quality control procedures were followed, and in the absence of a quality manager supervised the pipe inspectors to ensure proper procedures were followed and inspection reports were filled out properly.
Also aided in the interpretation of API and ISO specifications.

Sr. Metallurgical Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for insitu metallography, replication & reports, incoming photo documentation, metallography and metallographic sample preparation, assisted metallurgist in failure analysis.

Metallographer / Mechanical Test Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for metallography, sample preparation, certification/report generation, mechanical testing, data entry, expediting, contract review, mechanical maintenance of various machines and many other duties.

QA/QC Supervisor, Metallurgical Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all mechanical testing, chemical analysis, metallography, MTR generation, data entry, failure analysis, product evaluation, supervising sample preparation/product inspection, monitoring and upkeep on NDE equipment and various other QA/QC responsibilities.

Senior Laboratory Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for a broad range of mechanical testing, including steel and steel products, plastics and polymers, and actual product testing. Also did sample preparation, designed and built test fixtures.

SKILLS:

Computer knowledge: Word, Excel, Microsoft Office, Windows, Outlook, internet. Can learn any company software.
General ASTM, API, ASME, NACE knowledge, Quality Management Laboratory technician, Machining, Metallography, Magnetic particle / Liquid penetrant inspection. Extensive experience with API 5L and ASTM A53B and A795 pipe products and specifications, good communication skills, good supervisory skills, work well under pressure, good trouble shooting/problem solving skills, self motivated, familiar with manufacturing/production practices. Skilled in welding, cutting torch, & plasma torch.