Quality Associate Chemist

Your Role: 

The Quality Associate Chemist will be part of the Quality Assurance group and provide day to day Quality oversight and assistance with the collection of instrumentation data for certificate of conformance reporting.  Our products are sold globally and include highly engineered materials sold to the integrated circuit industry.  You will be a key member of the team ensuring customer satisfaction in our products originating in our US-based factory. 

  

Responsibilities include: 

• Identify and implement improvements to ensure the lab is a safe working environment 

• Execute testing while utilizing a variety of chemical and physical analysis instrumentation.  This includes ion chromatography, liquid chromatography, particle sizers, ICP, titration, pH, density, viscosity, scales, and other laboratory techniques 

• Identify and implement improvement to laboratory methods and procedures which improve the quality and consistency of reported data 

• Maintain quality management systems as they apply to the analytical lab 

• Assist the production plant with their quality management system improvements as necessary 

• Investigate and perform testing in response to customer complaints or information requests.  Track responses to customers to ensure closure 

• Update work instructions in the document control system 

• Support certification and customer audit activities 

• Utilize and maintain control charts. Perform statistical analysis using analytical software packages to uncover the root causes behind OOC or OOS results 

• Facilitate the training of QC technicians as needed 

• Monitor lab instrumentation performance, stability, calibration, and service requirements 

• Work as a team player in the lab to ensure overall lab success and continuous improvement 

• Occasional travel to Martin, SC to support our manufacturing site (<5%) 

  

Who You Are 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Biology or other scientific discipline 

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience working in an analytical lab with strong understanding of quality requirements 

• Experience utilization multiple quality management systems such as: 

• Updating standard operating procedures within a document control system 

• Working within a rigid change management environment  

• Facilitating customer complaint response/tracking/closure 

• Audit preparation and response management 

• CAPA identification/implementation 

• Using and maintaining statistical control charts 

• Instrument calibration 

• Demonstrated background in driving continuous improvement to improve customer satisfaction. 

• Experience managing laboratory consumables and instrument maintenance