Employment
Positions Offered
Quality Assurance Engineer, Sr. or Quality Manager (Full Time)
Reports To: Vice President, Quality Assurance (eklaczak@petroalgae.com)
Candidate will be responsible for planning and implementing quality assurance policies, procedures and initiatives to meet the Company’s strategic goals. This includes multiple ISO certifications, FDA-GMP, quality systems audits, quality production controls/metrics, new product introduction and new process validations. A strong Analytical Lab background is required. Compensation will include base salary and bonus.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Learn and understand the Company’s global strategy, operating processes and procedures.
- Develop, document and implement an effective multi-site Quality Mgmt System that achieves multiple ISO certifications, FDA-GMP and meets national and international Envir. Health & Safety regulatory compliance.
- Provide QA support and/or authorization for new product introduction, new process validation and batch-lot release process. Familiarity with a ‘stage-gate’ new product introduction methodology is preferred.
- Technically interface with internal and external Analytical Labs to define test plans, interpret test results and implement actions based on the analytical findings for animal feed, bio-fuel and water quality test results.
- Develop, document and implement Quality Assurance processes and procedures that will enable licensees of the Company’s process technology to operate their facilities such that they perform consistently within defined process control limits and deliver products that consistently meet or exceed specifications.
- Support/mentor and implement disciplined problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives based on root-cause analysis and closed-loop corrective action methodologies.
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial or Chemical Engineering or Biology. A background in Agriculture, Fluid- systems and Live-organism systems experience is strongly preferred. Other appropriate disciplines considered.
- 5+ years (for Engineer), 10+ years (for Manager) experience in Quality Assurance.
- Fluent in Analytical Lab (proximate, microbiological, amino acids, elemental) test methodologies and can form solid product and production process action plans based on the test results.
- Strong ISO and/or FDA GMP experience in a large-scale commercial fluid- systems process business within the last 3 years.
- Committed to facts-and-logic, data-driven root-cause analysis, closed-loop management methods.
- Fluent in MS Office/Project/Visio, statistical problem-solving and analysis tools, value-stream mapping, web-based workflow management, etc.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- A team player with excellent interpersonal, verbal, oral and written communication skills.
Positions Wanted
None at this time
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