Highlights
Job Title:Lab Analyst I Location:Kansas City, MO 64120 Duration: 12 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Shift: 7:00 PM 7:00 AM (12-hour shifts) Job Description: This position performs routine testing on all samples in the Analytical Services laboratory, providing analytical data for process control, quality control, process development, product development, and waste management. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Kansas City, MO |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $18–$22 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title:Lab Analyst I
Location:Kansas City, MO 64120
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 7:00 PM 7:00 AM (12-hour shifts)
Job Description:
- This position performs routine testing on all samples in the Analytical Services laboratory, providing analytical data for process control, quality control, process development, product development, and waste management.
- Employee will be required to work eight hours shifts, and rotating days within shift every three to four months.
- Client KC Quality Control lab is a 24 hours production site that operates on three shifts.
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform routine analytical testing as directed by protocols and work instructions.
- Work a variety of shifts (including weekends and holidays).
- Request additional work to increase team productivity.
- Prepare solutions, clean glassware, dispose of solid/liquid waste and other duties to help in the overall operations of the laboratory.
- Train others on waste management.
- Alert lab leadership of issues or discrepancies involving sample integrity, supply inventory, safety concerns, or analysis irregularities.
- Communicate troubleshooting opportunities in testing processes.
- Perform routine analytical testing as directed by protocols and work instructions.
- Work a variety of shifts (including weekends and holidays).
- Request additional work to increase team productivity.
- Conduct basic (operational) preventative maintenance according to work instructions. Identify and communicate operational issues of laboratory instruments and equipment KPIs Understand and operate Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Chromatography Data System (CDS) system, and other instrument specific computer systems.
- Search various databases for test methods, specifications, and standards to locate information required to complete analyses.
- Promptly and accurately record, calculate and report analytical results.
- Review analytical data and various LIMS reports.
- Communicate and discuss any issues with team members and supervisor.
- Complete data entry for metrics and KPIs Identify process improvement ideas and communicate opportunities.
- Assist in improving established procedures and implementing continuous improvement projects.
- Communicate testing results to customers as required; act with customers in mind. Notify leads when supplies/consumables are at critical levels.
- Observe good safety and housekeeping practices.
- Participate in lab/site safety programs and cross site initiatives.
- Maintain knowledgeable of RCRA hazardous waste regulations, waste determinations, waste codes, and how to immediately communicate discovery of spills and leaks
Required Qualifications:
- High school diploma + a minimum of 1-year lab experience
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- High attention to details and an ability to analyze outcomes against a standard.
- Ability to diagnose the typical instrument problems with little or no assistance and provide assistance to others.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize workload to optimize efficiency and productivity of the laboratory.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years laboratory experience
- Understands basic HPLC and GC operation.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.