Laboratory Manager

Aztalan Bio LLC•Johnson Creek, WI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Aztalan Bio as a Laboratory Manager and lead the quality assurance efforts at our growing, innovative biorefinery in Johnson Creek, WI. This full-time leadership role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, PTO, sick time, and more. In this role, you will oversee all laboratory operations, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of testing while maintaining compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. You will lead and develop the laboratory team, manage quality control systems, oversee laboratory equipment and procedures, and partner with operations, commercial teams, and external organizations to ensure products consistently meet customer specifications and the highest quality standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, microbiology, or a related field.
5 years of laboratory quality control, laboratory operations, or similar refinery operational experience.
Understanding of refinery operations, processes, and the interaction of units and the application of stream/chemical quality pertinent to each.
Working knowledge of computers including MS Office, and Excel.
Excellent written and verbal skills will be required to communicate with employees and other departments.
Ability to prioritize, focus, and distinguish between urgent and important
Ability to work under stress

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with managing quality programs preferred.

Responsibilities

Develops consistent laboratory policies, practices, procedures, equipment, information management systems, and physical facilities to measure the quality of refinery feedstock, intermediates, and finished products.
Assumes personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and, incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
Maintains, calibrates, & recommends new lab equipment as needed.
Understands and stays abreast of federal, state, and local safety regulations, and works with local safety management to ensure compliance.
Prepares and ships samples for customers & to external labs for special analyses.
Coordinates for the establishment and maintenance of quality control systems that operate in concert with laboratory systems.
Works with commercial groups to support product quality investigations on finished products.
Assists in the development and administration of laboratory capital and operating budgets including non-routine third-party testing and benchmarking activities.
Develops testing practices to prove the reproducibility of results both inside and outside the corporation.
Hires, trains, and manages laboratory team including employee evaluations, development, resolving issues, and taking disciplinary actions.
Assists with setting up systems to provide measurement standards, certification samples, proto fuels, etc.
Interfaces with industry and governmental quality assurance organizations to certify laboratories for special products such as asphalt, military fuels, etc.