Quality Assurance Officer

Summary:

The primary purpose of this position will be to join and assist the Health & Environmental Testing Laboratory (HETL) Quality Assurance Team with maintaining global quality systems, and appropriate and sufficient associated records.  The position will assist with ensuring the lab is meeting all required accreditation standards for various accrediting and credentialing boards.  The position will participate in both external and internal audits, and other duties as assigned.

Duties:

• Develop, coordinate, review, and approve Standard Operating Procedures for laboratory, field, and data management operations.
• Implement, administer, and coordinate laboratory certification programs to ensure compliance with State and Federal laboratory regulations
• Continually review, modify, edit, and improve laboratory quality assurance policies
• Continually review, modify, edit, and improve experimental design of environmental studies to ensure proper and correct measurement of environmental laboratory data
• Develop and implement quality assurances audit program to document laboratory quality assurance and quality control program efficacy
• Supervise and/or conduct on-site evaluations of laboratory as recommended and/or required by State and Federal regulations to ensure laboratory meets established quality standards
• Perform other duties as assigned to ensure plenary quality operations and processes

Basic Qualifications:

Four-year combination of education, training, and/or experience in Quality Assurance, Chemistry or a directly related field. Familiarity with accreditation standards such as ISO/IEC 17025:2017.