Supervisor, Quality Lab, 2nd shift

Position: Supervisor, Quality Lab, 2nd shift, 2 pm to 10 pm, Mon-Fri
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* The Role:

** Entegris is seeking a driven and collaborative
** Quality Lab Supervisor
** to join the
** CMP Pads Manufacturing
** team at the Aurora, Illinois facility.  In this role, you will be accountable for safe, compliant, and timely day-to-day laboratory execution for the shift by leading Quality Lab Technicians who perform visual inspection and testing for manufacturing, product development, engineering, and customer-failure analysis.

Your role will ensure a strong focus on safety, quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement while fostering an environment where teamwork, innovation, and accountability thrive.  This 2nd Shift position is onsite,
** Monday through Friday**, leading a team that operates
** 2:00pm to 10:00pm**, with extended shift support and weekend oversight as business needs require.
** What You’ll Do
*** Model safe work practices and monitor quality areas to ensure cleanliness, housekeeping, and EHS procedures are followed; support plant safety and housekeeping initiatives as assigned
* Provide clear communication regarding goals, expectations, and daily priorities; collaborate with other supervisors, engineering and management to ensure alignment and escalate risks
* Train, certify, coach, and develop laboratory technicians; address performance issues with proper documentation and manage performance reviews and corrective actions in a timely manner
* Provide day-to-day direction and respond to shift-level concerns, including safety incidents, quality issues, and personnel matters
* Ensure test results, Certificates of Analysis, and Laboratory Information Management System records are complete, accurate, timely, and traceable
* Ensure technicians recognize, contain, document, and escalate product, instrument, method, and quality-standard deviations or nonconformances in a timely manner
* Support corrective action and nonconformance investigations, including containment, data collection, root-cause analysis, effectiveness checks, and documentation of results
* Apply Lean and Six Sigma concepts, including Kanban, 6S, PDCA, and visual management, to improve resource planning, schedule attainment, workplace organization, and daily execution.
* Prepare the laboratory for internal, customer, and external audits and ensure identified actions are completed
* Identify and pursue opportunities for safety improvements, 6S, labor, cost reduction, waste elimination, improved material flow, and greater equipment and process efficiency.
** What We Seek
*** Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Quality, or another related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant manufacturing quality laboratory experience
* Typically 5 or more years of quality laboratory or manufacturing experience, including demonstrated experience leading a team
* Strong understanding of manufacturing and quality principles with the ability to quickly gain competency in quality lab areas
* Excellent organizational, planning and communication skills
* Experience with Minitab, JMP or comparable statistical software is preferred
* Hands-on knowledge of quality laboratory operations, test equipment, calibration, preventive maintenance, and data-integrity practices
* Onsite presence in a manufacturing environment with use of required personal protective equipment.
* Alignment with our Entegris PACE values and commitment to employee development, accountability, and engagement
* Ability to stand, sit, walk, kneel, crouch, and occasionally climb or balance; ability to manually lift up to 40 pounds when needed.
* Schedule flexibility, including extended shift or off-shift support, may be required based on business needs
** Why Work at Entegris:
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