Quality Assurance Associate

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Job ID: req33544.

About the role

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high‑quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra‑high‑purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life‑saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state‑of‑the‑art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead quality investigations involving defects, non‑conformances, deviations, complaints, and adverse events, ensuring timely corrective actions, reporting, data trending, and resolution.
• Assist in internal and supplier audits and establishing/updating supplier and component specifications and testing as needed.
• Ensure labels are appropriately reviewed and approved for use and meet all internal and external requirements.
• Review all steps performed and ensure that the step in the manufacturing process has taken place as defined in the Batch Production Record; report findings of in‑process errors and provide follow‑up to ensure adequate completion of corrective actions.
• Ensure product disposition (approvals for release, distribution or rejection).
• Perform statistical analyses of processes as required to meet quality control standards.
• Ensure timely throughput of product through lab work queue.
• Maintain comprehensive familiarity with the lab scope and all associated lab documentation and procedures.
• Operate required analytical instrumentation (GCs, FTIRs, process analyzers, etc.).
• Report problems with analytical instrumentation and assist in subsequent repair(s).
• Accurately input and document analytical data into all necessary analytical and plant process logs.
• Strictly adhere to all necessary calibration requirements within all lab operations.
• Work in a highly structured work environment with regard to safe and consistent conformance to operating procedures and work practices.
• Conform to ISO 9001:2008 directives (policy and procedures).
• Support initiatives in Continuous Quality Improvement.
• Through observation of work area(s), be alert to and avoid unsafe behaviors and conditions or other hazards.
• Follow all safety rules/regulations and immediately report infractions and/or workplace injuries/accidents to proper personnel.

Requirements

• Experience in laboratory testing, quality assurance, or a related technical field.
• Strong understanding of analytical methods, instrumentation, and data interpretation.
• Ability to work independently and make quality‑driven decisions.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with GMP, ISO, FDA, or similar regulatory frameworks.
• Preferred: Prior experience in industrial gases, pharmaceuticals, food manufacturing, or regulated environments.
• Preferred: Experience supporting investigations, CAPA, or quality audits.
• Preferred: Technical training or certification in laboratory sciences or quality systems.

Benefits

• Health, dental, disability, and life insurance.
• Paid holidays and vacation.
• Employee discount program.
• Opportunities for educational and professional growth.

Schedule

1st shift