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Job Description
Conduct tests to determine quality of raw materials, bulk intermediate and finished products. May conduct stability sample tests.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-4099.01
Also Known As…
- Quality Control Technician
- Quality Control Analyst
- Quality Assurance Technician
- Micro Lab Analyst
- Laboratory Analyst
- Lab Technician
- Lab Tech
- Ethanol Quality Leader
- Analytical Lab Analyst
- Analyst Microbiology Lab
- Wastewater Analyst, Lab Analyst
- Test Engineer
- Shift Lab Technician
- Senior Quality Control Technician
- Senior Laboratory Technician
- Research Associate Quality Control QC
- Research Associate
- Quality Specialist
- Quality Process Auditor
- Quality Coordinator
- Quality Controller
- Quality Control Tester
- Quality Control Tech, Raw Materials
- Quality Control Tech
- Quality Control Specialist
- Quality Control Scientist
- Quality Control Lab Tech
- Quality Control Expert
- Quality Control Director
- Quality Control Coordinator
- Quality Control Checker
- Quality Control Auditor
- Quality Control Associate
- Quality Control
- Quality Assurance/R&D Lab Technician
- Quality Assurance Tech
- Quality Assurance Specialist (QA Specialist)
- Quality Assurance QA Lab Technician
- Quality Assurance QA Lab Analyst
- Quality Assurance Manager (QA Manager)
- Quality Assurance Auditor (QA Auditor)
- Quality Assurance Associate
- Quality Assurance Analyst (QA Analyst)
- Quality Analyst
- Nitriles Lab Technician
- Microbiology Quality Control Technician
- Microbiology Lab Analyst
- Lead Quality Control Technician
- Laboratory Tech
- Chemistry Quality Control Technician
- Chemistry Quality Control Analyst
Tasks for “Quality Control Analysts”
- Complete documentation needed to support testing procedures, including data capture forms, equipment logbooks, or inventory forms.
- Ensure that lab cleanliness and safety standards are maintained.
- Participate in out-of-specification and failure investigations and recommend corrective actions.
- Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory equipment.
- Prepare or review required method transfer documentation including technical transfer protocols or reports.
- Perform validations or transfers of analytical methods in accordance with applicable policies or guidelines.
- Investigate or report questionable test results.
- Interpret test results, compare them to established specifications and control limits, and make recommendations on appropriateness of data for release.
- Identify and troubleshoot equipment problems.
- Perform visual inspections of finished products.
- Serve as a technical liaison between quality control and other departments, vendors, or contractors.
- Write or revise standard quality control operating procedures.
- Participate in internal assessments and audits as required.
- Train other analysts to perform laboratory procedures and assays.
- Write technical reports or documentation, such as deviation reports, testing protocols, and trend analyses.
- Receive and inspect raw materials.
- Evaluate new technologies and methods to make recommendations regarding their use.
- Conduct routine and non-routine analyses of in-process materials, raw materials, environmental samples, finished goods, or stability samples.
- Develop and qualify new testing methods.
- Monitor testing procedures to ensure that all tests are performed according to established item specifications, standard test methods, or protocols.
- Identify quality problems and recommend solutions.
- Supply quality control data necessary for regulatory submissions.
- Evaluate analytical methods and procedures to determine how they might be improved.
- Review data from contract laboratories to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
- Coordinate testing with contract laboratories and vendors.
- Compile laboratory test data and perform appropriate analyses.
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