Lab Technician, R&D at Herbalife in US-CA-Torrance
- Company: Herbalife
- Location: US-CA-Torrance
- Posted: Sep 24, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 2+ years
- Visa sponsorship available
Overview
The Lab Technician will support the R&D departments (Core, Targeted, Outer Nutrition, and Sensory) by conducting experiments, formulations, and sensory activities in the R&D lab employing the disciplines of pharmaceutical, food and/or cosmetic sciences. Maintain the workspace, equipment and inventor…
Job description
- The Lab Technician will support the R&D departments (Core, Targeted, Outer Nutrition, and Sensory) by conducting experiments, formulations, and sensory activities in the R&D lab employing the disciplines of pharmaceutical, food and/or cosmetic sciences. Maintain the workspace, equipment and inventory of various locations.
Responsibilities
- • Document all experiments and results in a laboratory notebook.
- • Assist scientists/ product developers to prepare samples for internal and external evaluation.
- • Evaluate/test physical properties and characteristics for tablets, capsules, powders and liquids, etc
- • Maintain laboratory workspace, lab equipment, and inventory in an operable, clean, and organize condition.
- • Create orders and stock all R&D labs with product, raw materials, and supplies for day to day usage.
- • Follow and enforce laboratory procedures such as cGMP, ASTM, SOP, GLP (Good Laboratory Practices).
- • Ability to travel for pilot batching, testing, sampling, and consumer work.
- • Support the design, coordination, and execution of R&D based research in response to business needs to satisfy corporate objectives. (i.e. Cuttings, Employee Testing, CLT, HUT, Event Support, Pilots).
- • Coordinate, prepare, ship, track, and record on a tracking file samples/products worldwide.
- • Ensure all testing, documentations, and files are properly completed for each project.
- • Support the daily technical project activities as defined by supervisory staff with little to no guidance.
- • Job duties include labeling, weighing materials, preparing samples, lab organization, cleaning, and basic inventory management.
- • Ability to follow instructions.
- • Maintain lab supplies, RM inventory, Lab notebook, Calibration log book, receiving’s and outgoing logs.
- • Follow up on submitted tests.
- • Flexibility for various tasks not described above as business needs arises.
Requirements
- • Ability to organize workload, prioritize responsibilities, meet deadlines for deliverables and multitask on several projects individually as well as in a team environment
- • Maintain, calibrate, clean laboratory equipment according to equipment instructions and SOP
- • Ability to quickly learn and implement new computer based systems and experimental techniques
- • Strong problem solving skills and ability to carry out assignments under general supervision.
- • Knowledge of cGMP, ASTM, SOP, and GLP
- • Ability to generate and record data
- • Ability use of MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- • 2 year related industry experience, specifically in the pharmaceutical, foods or nutraceutical industry
- • High School Diploma
Skills
Required
- Knowledge of cGMP, ASTM, SOP, and GLP
- Ability to generate and record data