Omnia Early Careers: Graduate in Training
Omnia is pleased to offer an exciting 2-year Graduate Program designed to provide unemployed youth with valuable workplace experience and the potential for future employment within our company.
Closing date: 25 September 2024
Location: Sasolburg
Overview
- At Omnia, we are dedicated to addressing the significant challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa by creating sustainable development and career opportunities for talented individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- Our goal is to empower young people to transition successfully from academia to meaningful employment.
- Through the Omnia Learning Academy, we offer a range of professional development opportunities in various fields, including Chemistry.
- Start a fulfilling career with us—apply today. A better future begins with you!
Qualifications
- BSc Chemistry, Chemical engineering, Polymer Science or Materials science
- Experience
- Strong fundamental knowledge in chemical processes, material science and principals with proven problem-solving abilities
Duties
- Conduct experiments and research in a laboratory setting to explore chemical reactions, properties, and compounds.
- Analyze experimental data, interpret results, and prepare detailed reports and presentations on findings.
- Assist in testing materials and products to ensure they meet safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
- Participate in the design and synthesis of new chemical compounds, formulations, or materials for various industries.
- Ensure all laboratory work complies with safety protocols, environmental regulations, and industry standards.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams to solve chemical-related challenges in manufacturing, and environmental science.
- Gaining chemical knowledge about the new technologies for the development of new and innovative products is an important aspect of the job,
- Maintain awareness of competitive products and applications, technical developments in related fields of science and market trends as they relate to our business environment,
- Develop innovative products through formulation, testing and reformulation,
- Develops improvements to existing products and/or processes,
- Participates in identifying future R & D needs and formulating plans to address,
- Collaborate with R&D team members and commercial teams regarding product formulation, process parameters, scale-up, and trial support,
- Develop product constructions and processes, including all experimentation/evaluation and specifications assembly. Designs & conducts chemical experiments on both lab-and production-scale utilizing new and established methods with the intent of achieving specific desired material attributes. Projects may involve basic research and/or product development. Contributes to design and specification of production scale processes and validation thereof,
- Define test methodologies and requirements. Prepares test samples and conduct tests on chemicals and/or materials as required to support programs,
- Investigates any complaints or non-conformance and propose necessary corrective or preventive actions to prevent such recurrences and any potential product failures,
Job Competencies
- Ability to perform duties with moderate supervision,
- Excellent oral & written communication skills,
- Excellent interpersonal skills,
- Ability to employ statistical analysis technique,
- Attention to detail,
- Proficiency in MS Office.
