Quality-Focused Laboratory Technician at Iggesunds Bruk

Holmen Aktiebolag · Full-time

Iggesund, Sweden

A smart and meaningful choice Do you thrive working in a team and want a role close to daily production and development? Do you want to use your attention to detail and quality focus in a position where you have the opportunity to develop within an international and sustainable industrial operation? Then the role as Laboratory Technician at Holmen in Iggesund might be for you. Your next workplace At Iggesunds Bruk, we manufacture world-leading cardboard under the brand Invercote. Our products are used worldwide and we work long-term with sustainability, innovation, and technical development. Here, around 750 employees work in a modern industrial operation where digitalization and technology are important parts of our continued development. Here you get an operation-focused role where laboratory work has an important function in our production and development. You will be part of an environment where quality, collaboration, and development are in focus. Your next challenge As a laboratory technician with us, you will be part of a rotation for sample collection, analyses, and reporting. You will perform analyses and sampling in the laboratory but also out in the operation. The position includes many contact points with close collaboration and planning together with our technicians and operators. Together with your colleagues, you will be responsible for inspection, calibration, maintenance, and servicing of measuring instruments. Common work tasks include sampling, analyses, and reporting of results to meet our air and water requirements, as well as sampling, analyses, and reporting of results from the production process such as pulp, lye, boiler water, etc. Inspections, calibration, and troubleshooting of laboratory instruments as needed are also common tasks. The position also includes documenting and reporting test results as well as ordering consumables and services, and work tasks are mixed; you will rotate through different tasks within the position. To succeed in the role To thrive and succeed as a Laboratory Technician, you are detail-oriented and quality-conscious. You enjoy working systematically and see the value in maintaining high quality in results and documentation. Since you have many contact points, you also need to appreciate collaborating with others and be service-minded in your interactions with colleagues in both the laboratory and production. We are looking for you who have: Upper secondary education from a technical or natural sciences program or equivalent experience with laboratory work or good process knowledge from the pulp, paper, or cardboard industry Driver's license category B good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written. It is meriting if you have experience with laboratory data systems or business systems. We offer you With us, you get developmental work with proximity to both production and development. You become part of an operation where quality, development, and sustainability are important parts of everyday work, and where your knowledge and contributions help develop our operation. We offer varied work with significant personal responsibility, engaged colleagues, and excellent opportunities to develop within both laboratory work and process industry. At Iggesunds Bruk, you get the best of both worlds – an operation-focused organization where you have the opportunity to make an impact and develop, combined with the strength and development opportunities in an international group. Application You apply only by attaching your CV and answering our selection questions. No cover letter is needed. Selection is ongoing, so please submit your application as soon as possible. Holmen We make the forest grow and give Holmen's operations are based on the power that exists in the forest. The trees that grow, the water that rushes in the rivers, and the wind that blows in the treetops. That is the core of Holmen – a business built on the forest's cycle and the renewable products we can create from it. Our business areas are Forestry, Energy, Wood Products, Cardboard, and Paper. We are 3,500 employees who with courage, engagement, and responsibility create a sustainable future. Premium cardboard and innovative paper products from fresh fiber Holmen develops premium cardboard and innovative paper products for everything from cosmetics, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and food to books, magazines, advertising, and transport packaging. Our products are appreciated worldwide thanks to their high product properties and low carbon footprint. We use fresh fiber from sustainably managed forests and have production and processing facilities in Braviken, Hallstavik, Iggesund, Strömsbruk, and Workington.