Location: Calera, Alabama
Travel: None
Compensation: Base salary reflecting experience, shift structure, and plant-critical responsibility
Join a site-critical quality team with real operational influence
This is a handson laboratory role where your analysis directly impacts production quality and product routing decisions. You’ll gain exposure to heavy industrial manufacturing, work closely with plant operations, and build experience within a globally respected minerals business. The Calera facility plays a key role within the wider operation, offering strong visibility across plant quality and production activities.
Package / Benefits
- Base salary with overtime potential through rotating shift structure
- Long-term stability with exposure to large-scale manufacturing and quality operations
- Opportunities to transition into broader plant or operational roles over time
- Structured training and support from an experienced site leadership team
Why this business
This organisation is a globally established leader in mineral-based solutions, supplying critical materials into sectors including steel, construction, environmental services, and industrial manufacturing. With operations across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the business continues to invest heavily in operational growth, sustainability initiatives, and low-carbon industrial solutions.
What you’ll be doing
- Perform physical and chemical testing across raw materials, finished products, fuels, and environmental systems
- Collect plant samples directly from operational areas and interpret results to support quality decisions
- Route material based on laboratory analysis and maintain product quality standards across production
- Support laboratory calibration, preventative maintenance, quality systems, and compliance activities
What you’ll bring
- 1-4 years of laboratory, manufacturing, mining, aggregates, steel, or industrial process experience
- Confidence working in a hands-on industrial environment rather than a purely office-based laboratory
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to make informed quality decisions independently
- Ability to work rotating 12-hour day and night shifts within a continuous operation
