Laboratory Technician
Sugar Australia
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Melbourne, Victoria
Contract type: Full time
Looking to take the next step in your lab career with a company that puts quality, safety and collaboration at the heart of everything we do?
Join Sugar Australia as a Laboratory Technician at our Yarraville VIC site and play a key role in ensuring the quality of the products Australians know and love. This permanent full-time position is perfect for a proactive, detail-driven professional who's passionate about supporting quality assurance in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.
The sweet things you'll be involved in:
As a Laboratory Technician, you'll play an important hands-on role in supporting our quality assurance program. Reporting to the Site Quality Manager and working closely with both the Quality and Operations teams, you'll be involved in everything from sample collection to analysis and process improvement.
What you'll be doing:
This role is ideal for someone who's analytical, organised, and ready to be hands-on in a busy lab environment. You'll also need:
Sugar Australia is the nation's trusted partner in sugar and ingredient solutions enabling our customers to make great products for every home. We own and operate refineries, packing facilities, sugar silo terminals and warehouse distribution sites across the country.
It takes a great team to turn raw sugar into our many food grade products and we work hard to make the highest-quality liquid sugars, icings, syrups, and crystals.
You will find our retail products at your local supermarket under the iconic CSR sugar brand. We also supply refined sugar products and many other ingredients to the industrial, foodservice and hospitality industries, supplying some of the largest brands in the country.
When joining the Sugar Australia team, you can expect to be part of a passionate and inclusive work environment that supports business growth and people development within a values led culture. In return you'll be remunerated with a competitive pay, onsite parking, access to an EAP provider, and access to our product library for those passionate bakers at heart.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from people regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs.
Come work with us and make a difference!
Business unit Sugar Australia
Join Sugar Australia as a Laboratory Technician at our Yarraville VIC site and play a key role in ensuring the quality of the products Australians know and love. This permanent full-time position is perfect for a proactive, detail-driven professional who's passionate about supporting quality assurance in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.
The sweet things you'll be involved in:
As a Laboratory Technician, you'll play an important hands-on role in supporting our quality assurance program. Reporting to the Site Quality Manager and working closely with both the Quality and Operations teams, you'll be involved in everything from sample collection to analysis and process improvement.
What you'll be doing:
- Put your testing skills to work by conducting chemical and microbiological analysis of sugar and syrup products at different stages of production.
- Keep things running smoothly by collecting and preparing samples, managing data accurately, and maintaining laboratory records to the highest standard.
- Be a quality champion — identify and report any non-conformances, contribute to improvement initiatives, and help drive excellence in every batch we produce.
- Take pride in your workspace, ensuring the lab is clean, well-organised, and equipment is in top condition.
- Keep things stocked and moving, monitoring lab supplies and consumables to prevent any testing delays
- Collaborate with great people — work closely with the Quality, Technical, and Operations teams to meet production and quality goals together.
- Grow your skills through training and development opportunities and involvement in our Quality Achievement Plan.
This role is ideal for someone who's analytical, organised, and ready to be hands-on in a busy lab environment. You'll also need:
- A tertiary qualification in Science or related discipline
- Experience working in a laboratory environment, ideally in FMCG or food manufacturing
- Knowledge of chemical and microbiological analysis techniques
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis and reporting
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Good communication and problem-solving abilities
- A self-starter with a positive attitude and commitment to safety and quality
Sugar Australia is the nation's trusted partner in sugar and ingredient solutions enabling our customers to make great products for every home. We own and operate refineries, packing facilities, sugar silo terminals and warehouse distribution sites across the country.
It takes a great team to turn raw sugar into our many food grade products and we work hard to make the highest-quality liquid sugars, icings, syrups, and crystals.
You will find our retail products at your local supermarket under the iconic CSR sugar brand. We also supply refined sugar products and many other ingredients to the industrial, foodservice and hospitality industries, supplying some of the largest brands in the country.
When joining the Sugar Australia team, you can expect to be part of a passionate and inclusive work environment that supports business growth and people development within a values led culture. In return you'll be remunerated with a competitive pay, onsite parking, access to an EAP provider, and access to our product library for those passionate bakers at heart.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from people regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs.
Come work with us and make a difference!
Business unit Sugar Australia
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