Senior Quality Lab Tech

POSITION SUMMARY:

Preserve, prepare, process and maintenance of lab samples. This involves knowledge of complex and specialized lab support policies, programs and practices while completing appropriate forms, documents, and databases, providing technical assistance to customers, and writing reports. A Senior Quality Lab Technician is expected to understand and run complex specialized instrumentation and complex analytical testing procedures to sustain and improve the Lab Quality Management System (LQMS).

The Senior Quality Lab Technician is responsible for

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Core Responsibilities

• Analytical testing using complex to specialized lab equipment, including preserving samples, completing sample preparation, documenting, and communicating results.
• Conduct and support investigative testing for samples received across the network.
• Review and record test results, generate COA’s and release finished product based on results • Perform Work Order review and assure all batches released have a COA on file
• Update instrumentation, methodologies and training documents.
• Execute retain sample process and maintenance
• Identify and quarantine non-conforming material
• Support dispositioning of non-conforming material • Perform other miscellaneous related duties, as needed.

Sustain and improve the Quality Management System

• Perform document review, DCO’s, and writing procedures
• Partner with Operations to resolve issues and improve processes.

Lab Principal Functions:

• Provides complex specialized support researching issues and developing recommendations to resolve process, department, and related customer issues.
• Support other business units in conducting analytical investigations
• Conduct method’s Assurance and calibrations.
• Responsible for laboratory equipment troubleshooting and maintenance. As Required
• Assist in the review and implementation of lab support policies, procedures, practices, and programs to meet organizational, operations and management needs. (support to meet ISO 17025, 9001, SQF and IPEC requirements)
• Participate and support execution of validation protocols
• Train others on updated instrumentation methods
• Support investigative testing across locations
• Support other Hawkins facilities testing and training