Job Description
Job Description
Lab Supervisor
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for the safety and oversight of the Company lab facilities and staff of eight
- Effectively schedule and manage employees and student interns
- Interact with customers and complete assay exchanges
- Develop new laboratory methods as necessary
- Order & manage inventory – acids, chemicals, consumables, etc.
- Estimate costs and provide an annual operating budget
- Update lab procedures and training manuals
- Maintain quality assurance program
- General maintenance and calibration of laboratory equipment
- Periodically operate as department chemist assigned to of atomic absorption, gravimetric molybdenum, titrimetric copper analyses.
- Able and willing to perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, or related field.
- Ten years of laboratory experience preferred.
- Five years previous experience leading a team.
- Experience with cost center budgeting, employee evaluation, laboratory development, employee/workload scheduling.
- Experience with gravimetric analysis, titrimetric analysis and instrumental techniques (especially Atomic Absorption -Perkin Elmer and Agilent).
- Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple workloads.
- Very proficient using MS Excel.
- Ability to climb a short ladder to complete light maintenance on equipment.
- Valid Driver’s license.
- Proven safe workrecord.
- Ability to be self-directed, team-oriented and work with minimum supervision required.