Job description
ABOUT YOU
Are you passionate and ready to join an inclusive work environment, committed to leading new ideas and pathways, and to delivering value? If the answer is, “Yes!” then we have an exciting career opportunity for you. Who are we? We are Montrose, a leading environmental services company with 2,500 employees across 70 locations worldwide, focused on supporting clients as they deal with the environmental challenges of today, and prepare for what’s coming tomorrow.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
Our Mission is: To help protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that feeds us, and is supported by our Principles: We Value Our People, We Value Our Community, We Value Our Clients, We Value Our Shareholders. We care for the well-being of our people and offer:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Industry leading benefits packages including company paid life and disability insurance
- Paid parental leave benefits
- Progressive vacation policies and company holidays including floating holidays to meet the diverse needs of our people.
- 401(k) plan offered
- A financial assistance program to help support peers in need
- An educational reimbursement program
- Access to best rates in the industry to bring your student loan debt down to size
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Enthalpy Analytical, is part of the larger organization, Montrose Environmental Group, is comprised of over 9 laboratories servicing air, water, soil, tobacco, cannabis, and toxicology testing. Regulations drive the need for our services, but our unique capabilities allow us to add value to clients beyond environmental compliance.
Our Berkeley, CA facility is currently seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join our team and support the testing of nicotine and cannabis products. QA Managers are responsible for ensuring the lab operations are complying with state, federal, and industry regulations to meet the expectations of our clients by efficiently and profitably generating defensible data on time.
As a key member of the laboratory team, this role will be responsible for a full range of activities including:
Essential Job Functions:
- The goal of the QA department is to identify, report, solve, and/or correct any quality related issues, maintain high standards, and ensure the laboratory is meeting compliance requirements.
- The QA Manager is responsible for quality assurance and safety oversight.
- The QA Manager is responsible for managing and maintaining the laboratory’s Quality Management System (QMS), standards compliance and laboratory accreditations.
- The QA Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring improvements in human, technical, safety, and quality systems to improve data quality, operational effectiveness and efficiency.
The QA Manager functions independently from Laboratory Operations, including production and financial responsibilities.
- Leading the laboratory’s data quality maintenance and improvement activities
- Managing, maintaining, and expanding the lab’s accreditations and licenses
- Coordinating and collaborating with the method development team to ensure new methods are fully validated
- Implementing and revising the QA program/QA Manual
- Ensuring SOP’s are written, organized, reviewed at required time periods, updated if necessary, and compliant to standards
- Completing, evaluating, reporting PE/PT results and corrective actions
- Organizing records and documenting personnel training
- Providing QA/QC program training for lab staff
- Proactively ensuring compliance to ethics program
- Performing and documenting internal audits and data assessments
- Organizing, maintaining, and completing standard reporting requirements (ISO-17025, etc.)
- Detecting, documenting, monitoring, resolving, and closing non-conformance and corrective action reports
- Manage QA support personnel as needed
- Providing ideas for improved efficiencies and best management practices to QA Regional Director
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, individuals must be able to perform each duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the duties and responsibilities.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Chemistry, Biology or related sciences
- Minimum 5 years prior experience in an analytical testing laboratory
Preferred Skills
- Experience with non-standard method development and validation in an ISO-17025:2017 environment
- Experience reviewing data produced by GC, HPLC, MS and ICP-MS acquisition systems
- Working understanding of laboratory data interpretation and evaluation of data usability
- Ability to collaborate with lab team members to gather, review, interpret and consolidate data
- Ability to train and coach analysts as well as QA team members
- Effective written and oral communication
- Effective time management
- Ability to escalate issues to Director for individual and systemic issues to meet deadlines and ensure compliance
- Good knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, table and graph generation and use of applicable computer software
- Demonstrated editorial and proofreading skills
- Good problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Effective leadership and personnel management
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees so classified.
MAKE THE MOVE
From comprehensive air measurement and laboratory services to regulatory compliance, emergency response, permitting, engineering, and remediation, Montrose delivers innovative and practical design, engineering and operational solutions that keep its clients on top of their immediate needs – and well ahead of the strategic curve. We are a fast-paced and dynamic team. At Montrose, you
are your own boss, but you will get tons of guidance and plenty of support from talented, super-smart colleagues. Therefore, if freedom, autonomy, head-scratching professional challenges attract you, we’d love to speak with you.
Want to know more about us? Visit
montrose-env.com
and have fun!
Montrose is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Montrose is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its employment for individuals with disabilities
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