
Chemical Lab Technician
Rosemead, CAContract$27–30/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Chemical Lab Technician maintains chemical balance in tanks to support production of quality parts. The role performs routine analysis and testing of chemical baths, maintains chemical inventory and lab records, and supports process control for plating and cleaning operations. A bachelor's degree is preferred, though equivalent experience may substitute. Applicants must be U.S. persons or otherwise authorized by the U.S. Government; company sponsorship is not offered.
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Full job description
We have an outstanding Contract to Hire position for aChemical Lab Technicianto join a leading Company located in theRosemead, CAsurrounding area.
Pay Rate: $27-$30 per hour
The role of the Chemical Lab Technician is to maintain the balance of the chemistry in the chemical tanks to ensure the production of quality parts.
Job Responsibilities:
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Perform routine analysis on all chemical baths for plating line, cleaning line and waste treatment.
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Perform a variety of tests on the tanks on the plating and cleaning lines with several tests per tank.
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Keep chemical maintenance software updated.
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Keep all lab documents and lab performance in compliance with all plant standards.
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Maintain chemical inventory for plating lab.
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Responsible for following all environmental policies, procedures, work instructions and requirements applicable to his or her work
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Comply with all laboratory and manufacturing facility safety policies and practices.
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Responsible for immediately reporting to management all environmental concerns related to work being carried out, as well as, all incidents, which present a hazard to people, production, or the environment.
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Complete data sheets for chemical processes such as cleaning and electroplating.
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Prepare data charts to document process control statistics.
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Assist with chemical additions.
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Maintain the balance of the chemistry in the chemical tanks to ensure the production of quality parts.
Basic Hiring Criteria:
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A bachelor's degree (B.S.) is preferred; however, equivalent experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
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Ability to use and calibrate all lab instruments.
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Ability to assess concentrations in tanks and mathematically determine appropriate additions and enter them into the computer.
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Ability to use troubleshooting skills, be able to perform requested test on short notice.
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Ability to check chemicals for proper specifications on the C of A's for compliance.
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Ability to read and understand SDS.
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Knowledge of data entry, Word and Excel.
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Ability to run hull cells. Attend training as required by management.
This position requires access to technologies and hardware subject to US national security-based export control requirements. All applicants must be US Persons (8 USC 1324b(a)(3)), or otherwise authorized by the U.S. Government. No company sponsorship will be offered.
Benefits offered vary by contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, and affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.
Military connected talent encouraged to apply.
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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
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The California Fair Chance Act
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Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
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Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
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San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
How this job compares
Set against the 2,136 open Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$27–30/hr
- California median$25–30/hr113 hourly ranges
- US median$22–26/hr1,047 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $28.50/hr, is 4% above the California median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the middle half of Laboratory Technician hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 158 open Laboratory Technician jobs in California and 2,136 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Actalent20 open
- University of Southern California11 open
- Eurofins9 open
- Experience
- Laboratory Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (905 postings).
- Education
- 276 of the 2,136 open Laboratory Technician jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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