Quality Control Manager
Chemical Manufacturing
Compensation: $130,000-$135,000 + BONUS
Location: Greater Danbury CT
Greenfield is looking for a Quality Control Manager to join our growing team.
The Quality Control Lab Manager will ensure all QC activities associated with the testing, approval and release of the site’s products. The QC manager will be responsible for ensuring timely, accurate and reliable testing of various types of samples such as raw materials, intermediates, and finished products. The QC manager must coordinate activities to support daily production requirements and optimize the use of laboratory resources. In addition, the QC manager is responsible for strong leadership and expertise in building and managing an in-house staff of qualified QC Analysts/Chemists and DMS staff.
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry or similar degree
- Minimum three years of Quality Control experience
- Experience working in an ISO 2015 and/or GMP facility preferred
- Knowledge and experience with hazardous materials facilities preferred
- Minimum two years in a supervisory role
- Must have strong communication and organizational skills
Your skills should include:
- Possesses Company values of honesty, integrity, respect, commitment and open to change while modelling the Company Core Principles in all activities
- Ability to foster collaborative, cross department relationships to meet common objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for the hiring, management, training, counseling/coaching, and motivation of the QC staff. Manages the daily activities of the staff members, ensuring that all QC activities (including execution of monitoring and test programs) are successfully performed and completed in a timely manner. Provide for operational flexibility by creating staff cross-training across all QC functions.
- Perform test of raw materials, components, in-process and finished product and/or stability samples including, assay, and endotoxin/aseptic testing, and other test in accordance with the prescribed analytical methods, USP, EP, BP, JP, ACS, ASTM and procedures utilized in an GMP regulated laboratory environment. Manages water quality monitoring and testing.
- Identify and troubleshoot problems, that may arise with instrumentation and/or during analytical preparation, while at the same time ensuring method optimization. For results not meeting specification or expectations, ensure prompt investigation, identifying possible sources for noncompliance, and identifying corrective action(s) going forward.
- Analyze and interpreting test results using appropriate instrumentation such as GC, UV, IR, pH, etc. Utilizing the instrument specific data processing software, undertake the analytical process, reporting the results.
- Accountable for ensuring testing and analysis is handled consistently from startup through product release, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and ensuring utilization of industry best practices.
- Keeps current on QC practices, the competitive environment, regulatory or scientific trends, as well as general industry standards and regulatory requirements pertinent to QC responsibilities.
- Develop, review, and maintain SOP’s pertinent to QC responsibilities.
- Responsible for preventive maintenance, calibration, and standardization of lab instruments.
- Overall management for ordering and maintaining laboratory reagents and consumables.
- Responsible for the timely and accurate printing of batch records and labels to meet production demands.
- Participate in external audits by providing objective evidence of compliance to the Quality Management System.
- Ensure data integrity and document management protocols are followed.
Total Compensation & Care
- Base salary dependent on experience and demonstrated performance
- Formal and informal training opportunities
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits
- Income protection: short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, paid personal sick time
- Vacation time exceeding industry standards
- Company funded retirement savings program with individual contribution opportunities
- Meaningful and challenging work
- Curated intentional culture focused on growth and development, engagement, and communication
About Us
We own and operate five distilleries, four specialty chemical manufacturing and packaging plants, and three next-generation biofuel and renewable energy R&D centers. This integrated model enhances supply chain transparency, quality control, custom formulation development, and ultimately customer satisfaction.
Core Values
- Honesty
- Integrity
- Respect
- Commitment
- Openness to Change
Core Principles
- Innovation: We are constantly seizing opportunities to develop new products, processes and methods to meet the diverse and demanding requirements of our customers.
- Collaboration: We are part catalyst, part collaborator. We work with partners to get the most out of our existing products, and to develop custom solutions for our customer requirements.
- Responsibility: Our commitment to give back to local communities in the US and Canada goes beyond the bottom line. We give back to the planet by processing renewable resources into low carbon fuels and chemicals.
- Agility: Our team is not only fast, we have the flexibility and creativity to pivot with customer needs to develop custom-made, on-time solutions.
- Discipline: At every plant, and for every customer, for every shipment, we put quality first. We operate a tight, transparent supply chain while meeting the highest regulatory standards.
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