Job Description

Turn your laboratory expertise into someone else’s confidence.

Know your way around a geochemistry laboratory and enjoy helping others master their craft? Join SGS as a Technical Trainer and put your hands-on experience to work developing laboratory teams. Based at Perth Airport, with regular travel to sites, you’ll help people build the skills, confidence and technical capability to deliver safe, consistent and reliable results.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Technical & Quality Manager, you’ll bring technical learning to life through practical demonstrations, coaching and workplace competency assessments. From sample preparation to analytical instrumentation, you’ll support new starters and experienced team members, strengthen everyday laboratory practices and help teams adopt new methods, equipment and technology.

What you’ll do

- Deliver hands-on training across sample receipt, preparation, digestion, fusion and dispatch, reinforcing protected, accurate techniques at every stage.
- Build practical capability in ICP-OES, ICP-MS, XRF, LECO,



AAS and other analytical instruments, covering operation, routine maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Create engaging training resources, refresher programs and competency assessments, and maintain accurate training records and matrices.
- Coach and mentor laboratory personnel, assess workplace competency and tailor training to identified development needs.
- Partner with laboratory, technical and quality teams to support onboarding, introduce new equipment and methods, and address capability gaps.
- Visit sites to deliver training, demonstrate equipment and assess competency against approved procedures.
- Reinforce safety, contamination control, data integrity, traceability and QA/QC practices in line with SGS procedures, ISO 9001 and applicable ISO/IEC 17025 requirements.
- Contribute to procedure improvements, investigations, corrective actions and targeted retraining to strengthen laboratory performance.

📌 Technical Trainer (Perth Airport)
🏢 Sgs
📍 Perth Airport