Quality Control Lab Technician

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in collecting samples of products and maintaining the product/raw material testing/stability specifications.
• Lab testing chain of custody form submissions
• Keeping all QC testing logs updated with current test status
• Aseptic sampling procedures
• Coodinate shipment of samples to the customer or prepare for customer pickup.
• Keep an updated list of current projects and samples shipped.
• Organizing incoming raw material samples to appropriate projects/R&D Sample Inventory, including scanning COAs, MSDS, and specification sheets for incoming raw material samples to appropriate folders.
• Assist Regulatory and Quality departments with product and ingredient information as needed.
• Research and stay up to date with ingredients, clinical data, and products on the market.
• Complete other projects as needed. (i.e., assisting in validation activities that require testing)
• Environmental Monitoring / swabbing

Required Experience And Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Biology, Chemistry, or related field, preferred.
• One year minimum of experience in food industry or cosmetics or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Familiarity With Lab Equipment FTIR, Viscosity, Specific Gravity, pH, ATP machine, Biolumix, Moisture analysis

Working Conditions

• Follow cGMP’s in all facility areas
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move anywhere from 10 – 50 pounds; and occasionally more than 100 pounds.