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## Lead Technician, Quality Control, Schenectady, NY Schenectady(NY), United States Apply Now Find out how well you match with this jobJob :
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** Lead Technician, Quality Control
**** Schenectady, NY
**** Monday-Friday 8:00am – 4:00pm
** As a
** Lead Technician, Quality Control**, you will analyze and test under GMP raw materials, intermediates, and finished products, while applying validated or compendia methods. In this role, you will also release testing of products according to current compendia, regulatory, and corporate quality systems and principles. This is for our Human Nutrition and Health division where we produce liquids and dry blends for our dietary supplements and food.

The dsm-firmenich Health, Nutrition and Care (HNC) Business Unit in the North America Region has three premix manufacturing sites. We begin with a passion for making the world a heathier place with our select nutrients and flavors. We produce liquids and dry blends for our dietary supplements, infant formula premixes and food delivering a high quality nutritional premix tailored to their needs.  

Schenectady is the largest site and is a focal point for the business performance in the region and globally.
** If you have solid lab experience, a Quality Control mindset along with HPLC experience, the ability to work independently on a myriad of tasks, then help us deliver breakthrough products to fuel our customer’s health ambitions and sustainability goals!
**** Responsibilities:*
* • Autonomous accomplishment of analysis in the laboratory.
• Prepares standards, mobile phases, and reagents.
• Maintains, calibrates, validates, monitors, and troubleshoots laboratory equipment. (HPLC, ICP, IR, etc.)
• Analyzes raw materials, intermediates, stability samples and finished products for required tests by various analytical and instrumental methods.
• Performs calculations, collects and prepares data for evaluation.
• Reviews data to ensure accuracy prior to reporting.
• Orients and trains new colleagues.
• Perform administrative lab tasks, such as updating Specification sheets and SOP’s. (LOP's and TM's)
• Performs investigation of OOS/NI and supports colleagues in OOS/NI investigations.
** We bring:*
* • Paid holidays, 18 days PTO + 2 floating holidays.
• Full healthcare benefits day one -  medical, dental, eye, and life insurance.
• 401K with generous company match.
• Unique career paths across health, nutrition and beauty - explore what drives you and get the support to make it happen.
• A chance to impact millions of consumers every day -  sustainability embedded in all we do.
• A science led company, cutting edge research and creativity everywhere – from biotech breakthroughs to sustainability game-changers, you’ll work on what’s next.
• Growth that keeps up with you – you join an industry leader that will develop your expertise and leadership.
• A culture that lifts you up – with collaborative teams, shared wins, and people who cheer each other on.
• A community where your voice matters – it is essential to serve or customers well.
** You bring:*
* • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Scientific discipline preferred, or Associates degree with a combination of relative lab work experience required.
• 1- 2 years of experience in a lab of the Life Science Industry utilizing various instrumentation. (HPLC, ICP, IR, etc.)
• Broad / General knowledge of quality control techniques and methods.
• Broad understanding of safety, laboratory hygiene and GMP rules.
• Experience in Microsoft Office. (Outlook, Word, and Excel)
• LIMS experience a plus.

The salary or hourly wage scale provided reflects the pay range dsm-firmenich expects to pay the successful candidate for the position. Individual pay offered will be based on the applicant’s job-related…