Manager of GC/MS Volatiles, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories

>> My name is Ryan Nolt and I'm a manager of the GC and GCM [inaudible] Laboratory at Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories over in Leola. Myself along with three group leaders help manage the day-to-day laboratory operations. So we basically oversee about 31 staff, and staff consist of technicians, chemists and data reviewers. So we test for a lot of volatile organic compounds, compounds like industrial solvents, benzene, acetone. Those type of things you've typically heard. So we're testing those for to make sure they're not getting in wastewater streams, not getting in underground aquifers and not polluting essentially the nation's drinking water supply. My typical hours are 9 to 5, but I generally find myself getting there, you know, an hour before and staying typically an hour after. Then basically I check in with an emails to see if there's anything urgent going on and then I try to then move onto any urgent [inaudible] repair issues that need to be resolved or sample issues or a client request. Those type of things, so. Yeah, so typically in our laboratory we'll actually hire people directly out of college and they could come in as an analyst or chemist, so to speak, so. And typically they would start out training one-on-one with a senior member of the department typically, probably for at least three months before they really get an understanding to how we even operate the instrument. And then I usually say it takes a good, you know, one to two years to get a firm grasp of what you're actually doing. Everything is basically an instrument laboratory. So everything is tied to essentially a computer.