Lab Coordinator

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9

Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea:
To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit  and follow us on Linked In or Facebook for the latest news.

The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility proudly produces iconic pet food brands like 9

Lives®, Gravy Train®, and Kibbles 'n Bits®. This location also features an on-site Distribution Center, ensuring efficient delivery of products to customers.

Bloomsburg is home to Bloomsburg University, a municipal airport, and a landmark Town Park offering acres of recreational activities. The town also hosts one of the largest and longest-running fairs in the country. With so much to do and see, Bloomsburg is a great place to live, work, and play!

Help protect the quality and consistency of the products people count on. As a Lab Coordinator, you will guide day-to-day Quality Assurance activities, review records, support finished-product release decisions, and help the Bloomsburg team respond quickly and accurately to potential quality issues.

In this hands-on role, you will combine laboratory testing, documentation, systems work, and cross-functional coordination. You will support audit readiness, investigate quality incidents, manage product and raw-material holds, and help ensure safe, consistent products that meet company, state, and federal standards.

• Perform routine testing of ingredients and finished products accurately, identify results that fall outside established standards, and provide timely feedback to operations.
• Review Quality Assurance records and support positive release decisions for finished products using systems such as Sure Trend, Korber, Redzone, and other applicable tools.
• Initiate shift quality incident investigations and support corrective and preventive action reports, consumer complaint investigations, mock recalls, trace exercises, thermal-process deviations, and hold evaluations.
• Lead ingredient and finished-product hold investigations, recommend approval or rejection based on quality-control principles, communicate rejected ingredient results, and coordinate third-party laboratory evaluation when required.
• Coordinate with Purchasing, Receiving, Supply Chain, and Quality Assurance to track raw-material testing, delivery schedules, inventory, Certificates of Analysis, deadlines, and lot releases.
• Prepare, document, and ship raw-material samples for external testing; follow up with laboratories so results are available when needed; and maintain related shelf-life extension documentation.
• Place identified lots or batches on hold in inventory and tracking systems, communicate holds to required personnel, tag affected pallets, and maintain accurate supporting documentation.
• Support plant audit readiness by maintaining an organized work area and following safety, GMP, sanitation, quality, SOP, SQF, and team requirements.
• Provide shift support through daily huddles, document review and updates, environmental swabbing, right-to-run inspections, sensory and organoleptic product review, authorized…