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🧪 Quality Control Chemist
📍 Location: Kdc/one Groveport 📍 | 🧫 Full-Time Opportunity
At Kdc/one, our Quality Control Chemists make sure every ingredient, bulk blend, and packaged product meets the standards our customers expect.
🧪 What You’ll Be Doing
- Sample and inspect incoming raw materials from chemical tankers and palletized deliveries
- Run lab tests on RO water, in-process batches, finished bulk, and packaged goods
- Operate equipment like GC, HPLC, and FTIR to analyze product composition
- Prepare reagents, run standardizations, and complete Certificates of Analysis (CofA)
- Release product in SAP once quality thresholds are confirmed
- Support Out of Spec (OOS) investigations and retesting as needed
- Recommend batch adjustments to stay within spec and keep quality fresh
- Maintain equipment calibrations and lab cleanliness
- Write and update SOPs and lab documentation for continuous improvement
- Protect sensitive data like customer trials, formulas, and proprietary info are safe with you
- Collaborate with compounding, production, and QA teams daily
What We Need from You:
- High school diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s in Chemistry or related science strongly preferred
- 3 years in manufacturing or quality lab experience required
- 2 years training others in lab procedures preferred
- Expertise in FDA GMPs, aseptic sampling, OSHA requirements, and SAP
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and data analysis skills
- Ability to follow SOPs and multitask in a fast-paced, compliance-driven setting
- Comfortable working with chemicals and lab equipment and can distinguish colors and odors during testing