Job Description
Role Summary:
The New Philadelphia Plant Quality Chemist will demonstrate strong analytical chemistry
proficiency and project leadership skills to execute on business goals, programs, and processes
for the North America Manufacturing team. In this role, a successful candidate will utilize
experience and expertise to perform QC testing, solve problems, lead projects, develop and
execute objectives, and positively effect short-term and some long-term business goals.
The Plant Quality Chemist is responsible for ensuring the quality of products manufactured by
the New Philadelphia plant as well as addressing and resolving quality incidents. In this role, the
successful candidate will provide daily on-site support to manufacturing, oversee quality
programs and initiatives as well as provide product quality guidance to both internal and
external customers.
Essential Functions
- Consistently demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements, company policies, and EHS rules/procedures.
- Plan, direct and coordinate the overall quality assurance functions for the New Philadelphia, OH plant.
- Lead troubleshooting investigations to resolve customer and internal quality incidents.
- Direct and coordinate the overall quality for materials, processes, and finished products to meet customer requirements.
- Lead problem-solving and improvement efforts, such as analysis and re-work of off-spec or expired inventory, process improvements, and cost-savings projects.
- Maintain and update QC lab procedures, raw material specifications and product specifications. Propose changes to QC specs as required using corporate MOC processes.
- Provide chemical and process expertise to manufacturing plants, including batch adjustments, troubleshooting and general quality support.
- Set up and use basic laboratory experiments and analytical equipment, including ICP, Ion Chromatography, Auto-Titrators, UV-VIS, FTIR, Viscometers, etc. Perform initial maintenance and troubleshooting of analytical instrumentation.
- Perform QC testing for active components beyond the testing capability of the plant lab.
- Calculate and communicate chemical adjustments for batches failing QC testing.
- Review off-spec, obsolete, and expired inventory and make recommendations to convert product into useable alternative products.
- Organize, perform, and monitor plant laboratory equipment calibrations to ISO requirements.
- Prepare or acquire laboratory product samples in support of corporate product sample program.
- Collect, record, analyze experiment data, communicate the status of projects and make recommendations.
- Develop analytical procedures as needed.
- Support business ISO Quality initiatives by ensuring laboratory compliance and conducting internal ISO audits.
- Requires cross-functional interaction and relationship including, but not limited to, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Sourcing, Technology, EHS, Finance, Global Product Management, Product Applications, Product Operations and the Commercial team.
- This list is not all-inclusive and may include other duties as assigned and necessary for the operation and management of the site.