Lab Supervisor 3Rd Shift (11:30Pm - 7:30Am)

Position: Laboratory Supervisor 3rd shift
Department: Laboratory Analytical Services
Status: Full-Time/Exempt
Reports to: Manager, Laboratory Analytical Services**
Approved by: Manager, Laboratory Analytical Services
Manager, Human Resources

Good Place Holdings Charter
We will grow thriving and sustainable organizations and encourage other organizations to apply Good Place principles and values which aim at:

• Valuing people over financial profits,
• The members of our organization are cared for and flourish both in and outside our organization,
• Fostering covenantal relationships with our customers and suppliers
• The work we do to earn our living builds up Good Places in the communities where we work, and
• Ourselves and others can experience the continuing of creation in us and through our activities.

SDMyers
As a Good Place company, we strive every day to earn the undying loyalty of electric power system owners in a way that is safe and builds up a marketplace of reliable, low-cost electric systems.

Department Purpose: Help our valued partners maintain reliable electrical systems by accurately handling and analyzing their insulating liquids safely, timely, and cost-effectively while maintaining a work environment that strives to be a Good Place.

Position Purpose: Provide necessary daily operations, supervision, training, and support to lab technicians while maximizing resources to gain the highest level of quality work and throughput. Ensure employees are working toward common goals, remaining productive, and maintaining a positive work environment to sustain a Good Place environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure technicians are trained, consistently adhere to what they learned, and that work is performed per all established operating and quality procedures.
• Lead and support department initiatives to ensure compliance to established government and company safety and quality standards (OSHA, ASTM, company Chemical Hygiene Plan, ISO 17025, and all other established standards.)
• Manage the production backlog and turnaround time, by working with other supervisors and ensure necessary coverage at all test stations to meet and exceed completion targets.
• Ensure department work areas are consistently maintained and orderly to provide a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
• Champion department business systems and processes to ensure accurate operations and high data/information integrity (LIMS, department metrics/measurements, QA/QC, etc.).
• Lead continuous improvement throughout the department to drive optimal performance and quality. Areas of maintenance and improvement include instrumentation uptime, unplanned downtime, area workflow, ergonomics, and efficiency.
• Champion direct supervisory tasks related to technicians including ongoing training, individual production performance, attendance, conflict resolution, and performance evaluations in support of Good Place.
• Responsible to consistently wear the proper personal protective equipment, follow required safety procedures, and ensure employees in the department are as well.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• BS Degree in Chemistry, Biology, and/or equivalent combination of laboratory / industry experience and education
• Prior experience with adherence and maintenance of quality systems and safety
• Prior supervisory experience strongly preferred
• 2 – 4 years laboratory / industry experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of and ability to carry out requirements of laboratory quality management (ISO)
• Ability to understand, comply, and enforce chemical hygiene and laboratory safety
• Knowledge of testing methods commonly used by Department (ASTM)
• Knowledge of instrumentation commonly used by Department (GC, Karl Fischer, ICP, UPLC, HPLC, IR)
• Possess basic chemistry knowledge and mechanical skills
• Excellent communicator with ability to lead crucial conversations
• Strong problem-solving aptitude
• Ability to work independently and deliver on commitments
• Software proficiency: Navision, LIMS, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Work Conditions:

• Most of the work for this position is conducted indoors, in a laboratory environment and office area workstation with potential non-toxic dust, fumes, noise or other conditions commonly present in an industrial/manufacturing type facility
• Laboratory environment with PPE requirements (no clean room / ultra-high purity)

• Occasional handling of regulated and Hazardous materials and other chemicals

Physical Demands:

• Frequently stand, walk, bend, kneel, stoop, and crouch throughout the work day

• Regularly required to talk, see, and hear
• Ability to lift up to 30 lbs.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $50,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year