QC Lab Manager Job at Gage Products Company, Ferndale, MI

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  • Gage Products Company
  • Ferndale, MI

Job Description

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

  • Perform all duties and responsibilities within the guidelines of the Gage Products Company’s Vision, Mission, Quality Policy and Environmental Management Statements.
  • Duties and responsibilities are guided by well-defined, repeatable processes that are the key to meeting customer expectations and must be followed or changed as defined in GPS guidelines.
  • General responsibilities listed below describe the duties and responsibilities for continuous improvement:
  • Utilize procedures to prevent product, service, and process non-conformances
  • Identify and record any problems
  • Find solutions to problems through prescribed problem-solving methods
  • Effectively implement solutions for problems
  • Control the use of non-conforming product/service/process
  • Monitor and improve respective measurables.
  • Ensure that environmental issues are managed according to legal requirements, the environmental policy, the environmental management system procedures and good management practices.
  • Maintain an awareness of significant environmental impacts, actual or potential, of work activities.
  • Maintain an awareness of environmental benefits of improved environmental performance and continual improvement.
  • Maintain an awareness of objectives and targets pertaining to work and the importance of achieving the objectives and targets.
  • Understand both the Communications and the Emergency Preparedness and Response Procedures.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Oversee day to day management of the QC laboratory including all testing, record keeping, QC staff supervision, and budget
  • Maintain safety and environmental policies and procedures for lab operations and personnel
  • Provide supervision, leadership, and training to laboratory technicians
  • Utilize problem solving skills to assist internal and external customers
  • Maintain the ISO 9001 and 17025 requirements that pertain to the QC lab
  • Ensure that the lab equipment is calibrated and kept in good working order
  • Recommend new equipment and methodologies
  • Review and maintain test methods and work instructions
  • Work with manufacturing to improve the production process
  • Coordinate activities with outside testing laboratories
  • Maintain general housekeeping of the laboratory

QUALIFICATIONS (Skills, knowledge, experience):

  • Bachelor of Science in Chemical engineering or related science
  • 5+ years QC laboratory experience, with at least 3 years supervising a manufacturing QC laboratory
  • Strong knowledge of chemistry and chemical engineering concepts
  • Experience with gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy
  • ISO 9001 and 17025 experience
  • Experience with instrumentation maintenance and calibration methods
  • Understanding of analyst training programs and their implementation
  • Ability to take new test methods from initial development to implementation
  • Experience with process continuous improvement
  • Proficiency in MS Office and ERP programs
  • Ability to lead and collaborate within a fast-pace and team-based environment
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills

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