Quality Manager - Laboratories

A Day in the Life

The QA Manager develops and implements the facility’s Quality Management System (QMS) ensuring compliance with accreditation standard requirements and gaining and retaining accreditations. This position serves as Quality Manager and is the focal point for QA/QC. It functions independently from technical operations, having responsibility for quality assurance oversight independent of production and financial responsibility.

Compensation: $75,000 to $90,000, commensurate with experience, skills, and geographic location.

• Leading the laboratory’s QA/QC and data quality improvement activities
• Ensuring that laboratory accreditations are maintained and expanded as needed
• Scheduling, ordering, evaluating, and reporting Proficiency Testing samples, and leading development of effective corrective actions for any failures
• Ensuring SOPs are well written, organized, reflect laboratory practices and compliant with accreditation standards
• Ensuring that personnel training (e.g., demonstrations of capability) is documented and associated records are retained
• Developing and providing QA/QC activities training for laboratory staff
• Ensuring nonconformances are documented, corrected and monitored and that corresponding records are retained
• Implementing and improving the QMS
• Documenting validation of new test & measurement services
• Performing and documenting internal audits and data assessments
• Hosting and leading external audits by accreditation bodies and clients; responding to any observed deficiencies
• Proactively ensuring compliance to ethics program
• Managing QA Associates
• Complying with our Health and Safety Plan
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in chemical, environmental, biological or physical science is preferred;
  Associate’s degree in science is required.
• Meet the minimum qualifications of the facility’s accrediting bodies for the Quality Manager role, as applicable
• 4+ years of laboratory testing experience
• Working knowledge of industry regulations, TNI, 40
  
  CFR, DoD/DOE QSM, ISO/IEC 17025 or other regulated environments
• Personnel supervisor experience

We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We acknowledge that these experiences and perspectives help to enrich our teams and contribute to our ongoing success. We are committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in our employment for all applicants. For US residents, additional information regarding accessibility and accommodations is available.