Metrology Logistical Support

ScottBP

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We're having a problem at my lab where good metrologists are doing a lot of non-technical things, such as rounding up and staging equipment, the paper shuffle end of transferring equipment, scheduling off-site calibrations, fetching printouts from the recall system, etc. when we're supposed to be writing calibration procedures, maintaining control charts, performing uncertainty calculations, evaluating new equipment and other "science projects". So I'm trying to come up a list of duties for a Metrology Logistical Support person.

The Metrology Handbook from ASQ has a good start under Chapter 38: Personnel Oganizational Responsibilities, where logistical support personnel do scheduling, material handling, document control, and other administration tasks, but I'm trying to make an outline as if it was a job description.

Attached is what I've come up with so far, take a look and add whatever else I might have missed. If anybody is willing to share any description that their employer has come up with, I'd appreciate that too.
 

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Looks good, but I would suggest the next thing to do is a job description. Call the position a Metrological Logistical Support Clerk or any similar name, you should also define the minimum qualifications, required skills, and required training.

Examples from my own experience developing and managing such a position, when it was virtually unknown outside cal labs themselves included:

Good coordination skills
Good customer service abilities (the Metrology professionals, labs, and Management are the customers)
Familiarity with Microsoft Office (our platform of choice)

I figured the rest I could teach. I wound up hiring a night auditor from a hotel and she turned into one of the finest Metrology Clerks on the West Coast.

I had her trained in electronic packages and documentation as necessary; she escorted our cal lab through the plant, even learned to calibrate calipers and surface plates. Point here being, identify the critical skills and go after that, plan on teaching the rest, and don't lock out non-Metrology backgrounds.

Hope this helps.
 
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