Job Description
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Applies GMP/GLP in all areas of responsibility, as appropriate
- Applies the highest quality standard in all areas of responsibility
- Demonstrates and promotes the company vision
- Demonstrates strong client service skills, teamwork, and collaboration
- Proactively plans and multitasks to maximize productivity
- Applies 17025 compliance standards in all areas of responsibility, as appropriate
- Performs method development, optimization, and validation of methods in support of product assessment and quality control on products utilizing one or more analytical techniques (e.g., HPLC, GC, ICP, mass spectrometry, smoking machines, or other special purpose equipment and/or multiple wet chemistry and physical techniques
- Performs advanced troubleshooting of laboratory equipment
- Performs supporting verification, calibration, and maintenance tasks (e.g., balance calibration and pipet verifications)
- Performs laboratory tasks as assigned following supervisor direction, SOPs, WI and other documentation
- Assists other staff in the edits and updates of SOPs, WI and other documentation
- Follows all Good Documentation Practices appropriately, including digital platforms
- Provides instruction/training to new staff
- Recognizes errors, identifies root causes, and applies process improvements
- Provides analyses support for method validation as needed
- Evaluates, reviews, and approves data by other analysts
- Independently drafts, edits and updates SOPs, WI and other documentation
- Provides technical consulting and expertise to internal labs, troubleshooting methods and instruments as necessary; make recommendations for technical and operational improvements
- Documents and executes to completion method development, validation and transfer protocols
- Calculates, evaluates, reviews, approves, and properly communicates data verbally and in written format to management and client
- Publicizes technical expertise in papers as appropriate with client, presenting poster sessions, or speaking at technical meetings
- Ensures smooth transition of new methods to routine testing laboratories, including training of analysts to perform the methods