What are the responsibilities and job description for the Analytical Lab Manager position at FutureFuel Chemical Company?
Senior Analytical Scientist,
Analytical Lab Manager
About Us
FutureFuel Chemical Company (FFCC) is a specialty and fine chemical manufacturing facility with over a forty-year plant history. FFCC has three business segments: custom/toll manufacturing, performance chemicals, and biodiesel. FFCC serves a wide variety of markets including pharmaceutical intermediates and products, nylon and polyester polymers, cleaning products, agricultural products, paints and coating, and fuels and energy.
About The Position
As a Senior Analytical Scientist and Analytical Lab Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the operation and functions of the Analytical Lab. You and your staff will have primary responsibilities to provide analytical services to support new business opportunities, new product development projects, manufacturing process improvement, production troubleshooting, and product quality. They will develop new analytical methods, improve existing methods, ensure the accuracy, precision, and robustness of instruments/methods, communicate routinely with customers and personnel in manufacturing, product and process development and commercial. The expectations also include supporting the implementation of and compliance with laboratory quality systems/standards; ISO9001, BQ9000, GMP and others. The ideal candidate is a creative PhD chemist with successful experience in leadership, teambuilding, process management, and a business growth focus. No two days are ever exactly the same, and the variety of chemistry is unmatched.
Responsibilities
Responsible for classical and instrumental methods of analyses; titrations, physical, chemical, and thermal properties, and environmental and biodiesel sample testing. Instruments and test methods include but are not limited to the following:
o Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
o Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)
o Bomb Calorimeters
o Total Organic Analyzers
o Auto titrators including Karl Fischer
o Viscometers
o Density meters
o Flash point analyzers
o Cloud/pour point analyzer
o Moisture balance analyzers and various types of ovens
o Rancimat for oxidation stability testing
o Perform NMR analyses as backup for NMR chemist
Responsibilities include the following:
o Instrumentation and equipment; operation, maintenance, calibrations and qualification for GMP projects.
o Analytical methods; development, validation, implementation, calibration, customer method implementation, regulatory method implementation, and analyst training
o Success of new business projects and improvements for current processes; develop expertise in areas of responsibility to provide analyses in a timely manner and work with Development chemists to characterize intermediates and products using all tools available and obtainable
o Develop methods for new projects and improvements for current processes.
o Adapt current instrumentation to meet business needs, minimizing the purchase of new instrumentation and equipment when possible
General and additional responsibilities include the following:
o Overall management of the analytic laboratory
o Safety of lab personnel and lab operations
o Training of lab personnel
o Develop additional expertise as the business need arises
o Support the implementation and compliance with laboratory quality systems/standards; ISO, BQ9000 and others.
o Establish cGMP expertise and additional expertise as the business need arises
o Provide solutions and think creatively when addressing challenges from internal and external customers. Internal customers include Development, Manufacturing, Utilities, HSES, Sales & Marketing, and Management.
o Work routinely with Sales and Marketing, Development Chemists, Process Engineering, and Manufacturing Management and Staff on new products and to improve existing processes
o Present a positive attitude. Be aware of the customer’s impression to ensure the perception is a willingness to work to a successful conclusion
o Interact with customers (existing and prospective)
Required Qualifications
● PhD in Chemistry emphasis on analytical chemistry
● Strong understanding and comprehension of analytical chemistry
● Working knowledge of GC, LC, IC, and other chromatographic techniques
● Working knowledge of FTIR, UV-Vis, ICP, and other spectroscopic techniques
● Working knowledge of NMR techniques
● Preferably five or more years’ experience as an analytical lab manager
● Proficient in literature searches
● Able to adapt literature procedures to analytical methods
● Strong ability to interpret data
● Strong verbal and written communication skills
● Highly motivated and self-directed
● Leadership and motivation of technical teams
● Strong customer focus and business understanding
● Excellent communication skills
● Creative problem-solving skills
● Legally allowed to work in the US without restriction
Preferred Qualifications
● 10 years of experience in an industrial chemical manufacturing laboratory setting
About Working At FutureFuel
● We offer competitive compensation packages, including a relocation program.
● We provide excellent medical, dental, and vision insurances, 401k matching, an employee gym, life insurance, on-site medical clinic, and disability insurance.
● Visit our website at www.futurefuelcorporation.com.
About Batesville
Batesville, Arkansas is a small rural town of about 10,000 on the foothills of the Ozark Mountains with excellent area schools, a University of Arkansas 2-year college and Lyon College, a highly rated Liberal Arts College. We are a strong outdoor community with the White River, nearby lakes, parks, bike trails, dog parks, walking trails, excellent soccer and baseball/softball facilities, a thriving community and aquatics center and Historic Main Street, and close access to Blanchard Springs Caverns, The Ozark Folk Center, and the Buffalo River, one of the longest undammed rivers west of the Mississippi and the nations first National River designated by Congress in 1972 to preserve its clean water and other outstanding values. Batesville has a regional health care center, Community Theatre and Arts Council, a strong Chamber of Commerce, Mark Martin NASCAR Museum, and a regional historic museum. Visit Batesville at cityofbatesville.com.
Applicants must have the legal right to work in the US without restriction (Green Card or Citizenship). Interested parties should send resumes to stacygunderman@ffcmail.com. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest. All applicants will be carefully reviewed; however only those who are being considered for an interview will be contacted. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment
