Lab Technician - Military Veterans
at Kelly
Kelly Science & Clinical is seeking a Lab Technician near Niantic, IL.
Temporary contract (~4 months)
Shift: Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Compensation: $20-$22/hr
Overview:
A leading analytical contract laboratory, well-regarded on a global scale and recognized for its excellence and innovation, seeks dedicated Lab Technicians. The lab serves major agricultural biotechnology and chemical companies by rigorously analyzing feed, food ingredients, organic products, genetically modified crops, bio-pesticides, plant protection agents, and crop chemicals. Utilizing state-of-the-art technology in nutritional composition, agricultural chemistry, and molecular biology, the lab strives to be "The Most Trusted Lab in Our Industry," ensuring that agricultural products are safe for both humans and the environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cleaning and storing laboratory glassware
- Weighing samples accurately
- Preparing reagents and solutions
- Conducting basic wet chemistry methods
- Performing sample extraction, derivatization, and other fundamental laboratory techniques
- Thoroughly documenting procedures and adhering to established methods/SOPs
- Utilizing basic computer skills, specifically Excel and Word
- Meeting aggressive project deadlines with a high degree of efficiency
Specialized Roles:
- Proximate Analysis Technicians:
- Conduct food ingredient testing
- Manage labor-intensive tasks
- Entry-level (0-2 years of experience)
- Conduct food ingredient testing
- Extraction/Purification Technicians:
- Prepare samples for analysis using high-tech equipment
- Accurately weigh samples and perform extractions according to SOPs
- Maintain thorough documentation for regulatory purposes
- Entry-level, critical client-facing regulatory work
- Prepare samples for analysis using high-tech equipment
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proficient in basic laboratory technician tasks
- Familiarity with balances, drying ovens, and ashing furnaces
- Strong pipetting skills
- Reliable with a goal/metric-driven approach
- Competent in using Microsoft Excel and generating documents in Word
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Diverse analytical background; specific degree not required
- Previous laboratory experience is essential
Screening and Interview Process:
- Standard drug and background checks
- Initial team call post-screening, followed by an onsite interview if mutually interested
- Final decision made by key team members
Day-to-Day Operations:
- Operate within a dynamic contract chemistry lab setting
- Utilize basic PPE and maintain active movement within the lab
- Collaborate with leading agricultural clients
- Involvement in analyzing GMO seeds for regulatory compliance
- Apply methodologies in agricultural chemistry, nutritional chemistry, and molecular biology
- Ensure compliance with GLP standards under EPA and USDA guidelines
- Generate data for EPA and USDA regulatory submissions
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
Why Kelly® Science & Clinical?
Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it’s the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.About Kelly
Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center.
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Niantic, IL
Why Kelly - Since 2011 we have placed over 16,000 Veterans
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Kelly applies targeted recruiting initiatives to the Veterans population (in all stages of transition) by aligning customer defined requirements with military skills and experience. The transition from military to civilian life can be stressful and complex for veterans, and our staff is trained to assist in this transition. Unlike our competition, Kelly places these resources without geographic or industry constraints, offering our customers and our employees greater flexibility. Kelly has a wide variety of local opportunities, for Veterans and their spouses, within our workforce solutions as well as national recruiting programs on behalf of our customers. Kelly’s leading placement opportunities for Veterans are within Information Technology, Engineering, Science, Light Industrial and Call Center.
Our specially trained Veteran recruiters are armed with a number of tools to help Veterans obtain roles that match their potential including skill translation tools, leading Veteran- centric job boards and Veteran/spouse social media networks, among others.
Through Kelly’s vast branch network, we are closely located to the majority of major military installations across the United States. Kelly recruiters participate in onsite and virtual military career fairs as well as advertise through local and national Veteran job boards. In recent years, over 150 Kelly branches have worked directly with their local military installations to recruit spouses and transitioning personnel. These teams not only engages with transitioning talent from local bases, but also have a strong focus on Veterans in areas where the military has identified high Veteran unemployment. This approach ensures that military talent is engaged and shared across the centralized military recruiting team and documented in a centralized database, so that other Kelly locations can benefit from hiring or relocating this valuable pool of talent.
Our focus on military recruiting is a win on multiple levels. Kelly gains top talent with the skills needed to excel; our clients receive the benefit of that talent to help them compete in an ever challenging business landscape; and Veterans receive gainful employment in line with their skills and abilities to ease the transition to the next phase of their lives.
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