Lab Coordinator, Quality Lab

About BASF Environmental Catalysts and Metal Solutions
Leveraging its deep expertise as the global leader in catalysis and precious metals, BASF Environmental Catalysts and Metal Solutions (ECMS) serves customers in many industries including automotive, aerospace, indoor air quality, semiconductors, and hydrogen economy, and provides full loop services with its precious metals trading and recycling offering. With a focus on circular solutions and sustainability, ECMS is committed to helping our customers create a cleaner, more sustainable world. Protecting our elements of life is our purpose and this inspires us to ever-new solutions.
ECMS operates globally in 15 countries with approximately 20 production sites and over 4,000 employees.

As a Lab Coordinator, Quality Lab you will create chemistry by……….

• Supporting a safe working environment by ensuring compliance with all relevant EHS regulations and procedures/policies.
• Communicating Operation’s prioritization needs to Lab Supervisors and lab technicians to ensure timely completion of lab samples.
• Acting as first point of contact with Operations, attending necessary daily and weekly production meetings, working to understand sample workload and prioritization needs.
• Along with other lab leadership, implementing methods and procedures designed to eliminate problems and improve data quality.
• Actively pursuing Digitalization opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Helping troubleshoot equipment and processes, ensuring Technicians are running the processes in the most efficient manner.
• Taking the lead to ensure customer complaints are investigated and resolved. This may include creating and/or investigating internal NCM’s.
• Being willing to fill in during scheduled and unscheduled absences.
• Working closely with the Lab Supervisors to provide guidance as they direct and coordinate activities concerned with testing of company product.
• Acting as first point of contact with CCP Operations, focusing on meeting term sheet requirements.
• Ensuring that needed materials are ordered in a timely manner.
• Participating in the interviewing and training of lab technicians: collaborating with lab supervisors as they plan, assign, and direct work.
• Assisting in planning and maintaining the Weekly and Daily Safe Schedule Attainment file.
• Working closely with other lab leadership in implementing improvements, MOC submissions, safety improvements, area planning, participate in team meetings.
• Addressing complaints and resolving issues as they arise from Operations.
• Gaining an understanding of business objectives and manufacturing operations and then applying this knowledge to ensuring consistency in providing lab services that meet both internal and external customer expectations.
• Helping set goals and objectives for the lab, focused on safety, quality, delivery, proficiency.

Your formula for success……

• Collaborative approach, seen as cooperative, approachable, openly addressing gaps and working collectively towards continual improvement.
• High School Diploma/Equivalent required with at least 5 years of related experience within a Chemical Manufacturing Environment. College degree preferred.
• Excellent and proven interpersonal skills, ability to lead and influence others.

• Seen as someone that others feel comfortable bringing problems/opportunities to for investigation and resolution.
• Demonstrated success as a team player, one who fully cooperates without urging.

• Experience conducting chemical and physical laboratory tests preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills and excellent math skills (LIMS, SAP).
• Knowledge of analytical instrumentation including ICP-OES, ICP-MS, XRF, XRD, surface and physical chemistry preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma experience is a plus.

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BASF is committed to pay transparency practices. The competitive Pay Range for this role is $80,000 - $105,000. Actual pay will be determined based on education, certifications, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.