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


• Coordinate 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


• Adequate knowledge of computer software; Excel, Word, Outlook.


• Cross-train in additional areas of Quality Control / QC Inspection

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.