Quality Control and Lab Operator

Responsibilities

• Perform laboratory inspections and analyses using detailed standardized procedures.
• Analyze finished products from inventory to ensure compliance with specifications and acceptability for shipments to customers.
• Analyze incoming raw materials to assure compliance with specifications.
• Analyze tank samples to provide and maintain certificate of analysis reports for customers.
• Confer with manager on products that do not conform to specifications.
• Prepare reagents and standard solutions required for various analyses.
• Prepare samples, label and store retain samples of products.
• Properly dispose of all retain samples.
• Furnish sales samples of tested materials to authorized customers and prospects.
• Maintain accurate records in laboratory notebooks including sample origin and identification, analytical data, interpretation of data and final disposition of products analyzed.
• Enter data into analytical results logbooks.
• Maintain records necessary for the current file system involving certification sheets and purchasing specifications.
• Perform routine instrument maintenance and calibration as necessary.
• Inspect, adjust and perform minor instrument repairs involved with a continuous instrument maintenance process.
• Calibrate instruments and appropriate reagents using certified standards in accordance with a continuous calibration process.
• Maintain an inventory of essential consumable instrument parts.
• Perform related laboratory duties.
• Maintain inventory of laboratory supplies.
• Provide analytical data to authorized parties.
• Maintain clean, safe and orderly conditions within the laboratory.
• Maintain current systems for product quality certification and purchasing specifications.
• Prepare and maintain blend production sheets.
• Review customer specifications.
• Perform other duties as directed.
• Develop, modify, verify, and validate methods.
• Comply with company, safety and regulatory policies and standards.
• Attend safety, regulatory, and company training as required.
• Comply with continuous quality improvements and ISO standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree
• Associates degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school
• Six months to one year related experience and/or training
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Benefits

• We aim to create an environment where the best people want to work, where they can turn their passion into their job and realize their full potential.
• Individual development, on-the-job training, and development programs designed to help our employees grow in their careers.
• Paid parental leave
• Education assistance program
• Employee assistance program
• Various healthcare plan options
• 401(k)