Quality Control Lab Technician

The Plant Chemist  is accountable for ensuring and improving product quality and production efficiency

• The Plant Chemist  is accountable for ensuring and improving product quality and production efficiency under supervision and through 

• Monitors all new production and communicates potential problems to Operations and Control Lab.
• Ensures manufacturability through lab batches and following production batches as needed.
• Identifies process and formula changes needed for successful manufacturing of existing formulas.
• Identifies process and quality problems to determine systematic root cause and follows through with corrective action.
• Coordinates test batches with production and scheduling.
• Maintains local formulas in formulation system.

• Drive improvements around primary metric OTMIS, distressed, and recall goals.

• Lead and or participate in quality investigations to determine root cause.

• Develop standard operating procedures and provide training to QC personnel to ensure procedures are followed.

• Manages new formula introduction and plant manufacturability acceptance

• Manage in raw material acceptance/rejection based on raw material specification 

• Ensure timely resolution of distressed batches and rework/returned goods.

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