Laboratory technician Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Laboratory technician, physics
Work model On location
Application due date 14 December 2025
Are you the one? About the position
We are looking for a laboratory technician for Smurfit Westrock Piteå Laboratorium.
As a laboratory technician, you will work in our paper laboratory, which is also a reference laboratory in the group.
The activities of the laboratory include environmental, process and quality control linked to production, assignments via the development organization and from other production units within the Smurfit Westrock Group.
Your main tasks are to perform testing on paper produced at Smurfit Westrock's internal mills. This is to ensure that we maintain the right quality level, and that the right quality is purchased when we use external suppliers of liner to our corrugated mills.
You will also work with testing linked to production investigations, complaints and development work.
Who are you?
You who apply have a 3-year upper secondary school diploma with a technical / scientific focus, and it is an advantage if you have taken a course in pulp and paper technology.
It would be an advantage if you have process and product knowledge and relevant experience of laboratory work.
As our customers also include other production units within Smurfit Westrock, you need to be able to communicate in speech and writing in Swedish and English.
We are looking for you who have a systematic and methodical approach. The position requires you to be thorough, flexible and have good collaboration skills.
Other information
The position is a permanent position on a full-time basis, with 37.5 hours/week.
Access takes place according to agreement.
For more information, please contact Lab Coordinator Susanne Lundberg, 070-3709880.
Our employees are our most important asset and therefore we offer a large number of benefits including wellness benefit, support and counseling service, occupational health care, subsidized lunch and free coffee / tea and fruit.
Welcome with your application no later than 2025-12-14. Interviews are ongoing and the position may be filled before the deadline. Please answer the selection questions in detail as these form the basis for our continued selection work. Welcome to register your application in our recruitment portal Varbi.
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Smurfit Westrock Piteå is Europe's largest kraftliner mill with around 510 employees. It produces over 700,000 tons of kraftliner annually, which is used in the manufacture of high-quality corrugated board. The Piteå mill is part of Smurfit Westrock, the largest and world-leading company in sustainable paper and paper-based packaging solutions with operations in 40 countries and over 100,000 employees.
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