Apprentice Lab Technician

Tirlán, is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and agri brands.

Tirlán owns leading brands such as Avonmore, Kilmeaden Cheese, Millac, Solmiko, Truly Grass Fed, Premier Milk, Wexford, mymilkman.ie and GAIN Animal Nutrition.

We nurture a talented team across Ireland, the US, MEA and China, delivering annual revenues of over €3 billion, and over 2,300 people to manage our network of 11 processing plants and 52 agri branches. Our purpose is to nourish the world, while safeguarding our environment for future generations.

Role Profile

Tirlán is offering a unique opportunity for someone to join our Quality team as a Lab Technician Apprentice. This programme offers a two year level 6 or a three year level 7 programme in partnership with Ibec. More details are available on Laboratory Apprenticeship - IBEC

Located in Tirlán’s central laboratory, Dungarvan, Waterford, this role reports to the Lab Manager.

Responsibilities

Raw Milk analysis including a range of:

• Microbiological methods including Testing of private well water, SPC, culture methods;
• Rapid Microbiology Tests: Bactoscan, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA), PCR, LCMS/MS;
• Antibiotic/ Inhibitor analysis;
• Chemistry methods including FTIR, Gerber, Kjeldahl;
• Excellent completion of all documentation and maintenance of records;
• Successful implementation and participation in internal and external proficiency tests;
• Equipment cleaning, maintenance and calibration;
• Day to day maintenance of laboratory hygiene standards;
• Timely escalation of non-conformances or potential non-conformances including participation in laboratory investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

The laboratory is fully accredited to CLAS. The Lab Apprentice will be required to participate in in-house training, the quality assurance system, accreditation process and internal audits.

Requirements

• Must be able to reliably get to and from our site in Dungarvan
• Must have a positive, proactive attitude and a strong willingness to learn 
• The Lab Apprentice will be expected to be flexible in this position