Senior Analytical Chemist
About The Position
Monument Chemical serves the specialty chemicals industry and produces a variety of solvents, intermediates, specialty fuels, and other specialty products, as well as offers industry-leading Custom Manufacturing services. This is a senior level role focused on ownership of lab instrumentations and test methods, ensuring the accuracy of laboratory data, performing non-routine analyses, and serving as a liaison to other departments and customers. The role will utilize process/chemical/analytical knowledge, in-depth technical expertise, and plant operations experience to identify, develop, and implement optimum analytical technology in support of process and product performance. This position will provide analytical support to other departments and sites within Monument Chemical.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry or a related field
- 5+ years Analytical lab experience
- 2 year IATA shipper certification. within 1-1/2 Yrs Required
Responsibilities
- Ownership of lab instrumentations and test methods
- Ensure accuracy of laboratory data
- Perform non-routine analyses
- Serve as liaison to other departments in the plant and with customers
- Identify, develop and implement optimum analytical technology in support of process and product performance
- Provide analytical support to other departments and sites within Monument Chemical
- Follow EH&S and Operating Discipline/Quality System procedures and practices
- Lab instrumentation ownership: new purchasing requests, installations, repairs, preventative maintenance, record control, and associated method development
- LIMS and lab server Administrator
- Daily raw data and LIMS review for production analyses
- Review flow sheets for specification accuracy
- Setup profiles in LIMS
- Set up specifications from flow sheets into LIMS
- Creation and ownership of lab test methods
- Review and update test methods and standards sheets/ensure that these sheets are in the appropriate location
- Review production schedule and ensure lab is ready for analysis
- Laboratory department reviewer for MOC (Management of Change)
- Handle certificate of analysis requests from supply chain
- Help troubleshoot plant and customer problems
- Non-production analyses for customers
- Provide assistance for R&D sample analysis
- Perform simple R&D experiments
- Responsible for Stability program of GMP products
- Crude reports for R&D
- Contribute value creation by continuous improvement of the analytical work processes and related tools and performance metrics
- Instrument ownership, repair, standardization, and calibration
- Create in-house standards and maintain standard and reagent records
- Evaluate expiration dates on standards on a periodic basis to ensure no expired standards or reagents are in use
- Purchasing laboratory supplies (reagents, consumables, office supplies, etc.)
- 3rd Party SAP focal point and SME (Subject Matter Expert)
- Periodic C of A (Certificate of Analysis) review for completion and accuracy (spot checks)
- Manage activities of laboratory assistant and provide back up
- Sample shipments via FedEx or other carriers
- Serve as back up for other Senior Analytical Chemists
- Assist with the training of new lab chemists
- Responsible for preparing round robin samples for analytical shift chemists and compiling the data
- Help oversee the day to day activities in the analytical lab
- Back up Timesheet manager for hourly lab personnel
- Lab vendors point of contact
- Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
