Quality Technician

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? 

Are you always solving? 

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a QC Laboratory Technician to join our Life Sciences, Quality, and Regulatory team at Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P. business at our Wilmington Aquarius manufacturing location. This is a very visible, significant role within the company and the Quality function. This position will report to the Quality Manager of the site.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Testing of raw materials, in-process control samples, and final products  

• Analytical controls are placed on raw materials to verify identification and required quality.   

• Understanding the equipment cleaning specifications is critical to preventing cross-contamination.

• Communicating results to production and process engineers.

• The use of the laboratory iLIMS tracking system (raw material samples, in-process samples, final samples, instrumentation calibration, and stability samples).

• Secondary responsibilities include process development support, process troubleshooting, analytical method development support, environmental samples, and quality systems support. 

• Documentation consistent with good manufacturing practices (GMP).

• Calibration of analytical instrumentation.

• Scheduled testing associated with the stability program.

• Provide non-routine testing associated with corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) investigations, such as customer complaints, out-of-specification (OOS) investigations, product failures, and shelf-life extension requests.

Other Quality Control Responsibilities

• Maintaining the raw material and final product retention systems.

• Assisting QC Supervision with maintaining laboratory supplies.

• Managing lab, sample, and chemical waste disposal.

• Following the Chemical Hygiene Plan, practice good housekeeping and general maintenance of the lab.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Associate's degree in Chemistry or related field

• Knowledge and understanding of analytical chemistry

• Knowledge and understanding of good manufacturing practices (GMP)

• Preferably 0-3 years in a chemical manufacturing environment

• Attention to detail

• Strong communication skills

• Strong computer skills, which include application knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word

• Good organizational and documentation skills