Quality Lead

Gowan Milling Blytheville is looking for a Quality Lead. Reporting to the Quality Manager.

Job Description

• Work as a team with other lab personnel on duty to make sure all necessary tasks are completed correctly and timely.
• Operate the laboratory during the absence of the Quality Manager.
• At shift change, ensure that on-coming technicians are versed on current tasks and methodology.
• Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot GC and HPLC instruments as well as other laboratory equipment, as needed.
• Maintain inventory of parts and supplies. Assist the QC Mgr. in maintaining inventory of physical reagents and other laboratory supplies. Manage/maintain inventory of (current) analytical standards, control samples, and reagents.
• Train and supervise lab technicians in analytical and physical procedures.
• Set up physical methods according to customer protocols and review physical data notebooks.
• Set up analytical methods according to customer protocols/oversee chromatography.
• Review analytical data daily
• Verify daily scale checks and monthly verifications are being performed.
• Perform instrument qualifications and issue internal COA’s.
• Perform analytical method development, as needed.
• Ensure MALs are known and analyze cleanout /TCAL samples.
• Must be willing to work flexible schedule as need arises to cover for absent lab technicians.
• Assist lab technicians in their tasks, as needed.
• Other responsibilities as assigned. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry or a closely related field; or 5-7 years’ experience in operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of GC’s, HPLC’s, and other analytical instruments.
• Three years’ experience in laboratory testing.
• Strong working knowledge of formulation of agricultural chemicals.
• Proficient in operation of personal computers using standard office software. 

Gowan Group is a global, family-owned agriculture solutions business headquartered in Yuma, AZ, U.S.A. Gowan specializes in developing, marketing, and manufacturing global agriculture inputs such as crop protection products, seeds, and fertilizers. Gowan began in 1962 as a local crop consultancy business helping growers identify the right crop protection solutions to help their farms thrive. Today, Gowan has over 45 entities in 19 countries and sales in over 70 countries. Across the world, the Gowan Tribe strives to understand the needs of local markets and provide solutions to critical pest problems. Using sound science and the coordination of regulatory, marketing, and sales expertise, Gowan then brings products to market that are essential for growers.