• Manage Laboratory Technician issues including staffing, employee rules, disciplinary, training records, etc.. Provide reviews and feedback to Technicians as needed.
• Directly oversee laboratory daily activities including workload management, instrument functioning, product release, etc..
• Lead initiatives for various quality control and production issues including method development, comparisons, validation, and process improvements.
• Manage preventative and corrective maintenance on equipment.
• Maintain laboratory retains and museum samples, ensuring that they are appropriate for issues of customer complaints, recalls or withdraws or commercial needs.
• Monitor a data review program for all laboratory data generated.
• Provide and mentorship for Laboratory Technicians to make sure that they have the knowledge and resources to perform in their job functions.
• Maintain laboratory inventory and miscellaneous supplies as requested by production.
• Perform month-end inventory assessments, OOS or deviation tracking and job hazard assessments and provide laboratory performance metrics to plant management as needed.
• Take lead in all OOS investigation including determining and reporting root causes.
• Work with maintenance and engineering, as necessary, on projects required to maintain lab operations.
• Work with engineering and production, as necessary, to aid in the event of plant issues.
• Contribute to customer and certification audits, as well as regulatory inspections.
• Assist in customer complaint, recall or withdraw issues as necessary.
• Monitor lab spending and identify and initiate cost savings initiatives in the laboratory.
• Champion corporate level initiatives at the laboratory level.
• Schedule the annual lab internal audit. Follow up and ensure all action items are completed from the internal audit.
• Report food safety, quality, environmental or occupational safety issues to the Quality Assurance or other appropriate plant management and aid in the remediation of such issues.
• Adhere to the directives and guidance prescribe by The ADM Way.
• Support Hazardous Waste operations including generation, collection, movement, inspection, recordkeeping and minimization of hazardous waste, as needed.
• Participate as an auditor for internal plant quality audits.
• Manage specifications and required testing for product release and in-process testing, both in TLC and in Policy Tech.
• Manage critical laboratory policies and operating procedures in Policy Tech.
• Participate as a member of the Food Safety Team.

• The Quality Control Manager is solely responsible for approving data for product release.
• The Laboratory Superintendent will be listed on Certificates of Analysis generated by the Vitamin E/Phytosterols Laboratory as a certifier of the information provided.

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