Quality Laboratory Manager

About MSA Safety

Established in 1914, MSA Safety Incorporated is the global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of safety products that protect people and facility infrastructures.

Many MSA products integrate a combination of electronics, mechanical systems and advanced materials to protect users against hazardous or life-threatening situations.

The company's comprehensive product line is used by workers around the world in a broad range of markets, including the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, the fire service, the construction industry, mining and the military.

MSA’s core products include self-contained breathing apparatus, fixed gas and flame detection systems, portable gas detection instruments, industrial head protection products, fire and rescue helmets, and fall protection devices.

Description of duties and role responsibilities :

• Coach, lead, and develop team members to ensure organizational goals and objectives are met.
• Coordinate all tasks related to the laboratory, including employee training, planning, prioritization, and assignment of daily work.
• Develop and maintain working environments that are health and safety conscious.
• Direct and prioritize continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality related processes.
• Conduct process capability studies, gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies, and assist in tool, machine and production process approval. Create quality plans.
• Coordination of necessary activities of industrial engineering, production, supply chain, engineering and quality to solve quality issues leading to high scrap, rework, or interruptions to the production lines.
• Technical liaison for supplier communication and discussions.
• Conduct and manage testing of respiratory protection filters and self-rescue devices with highly toxic gases, such as ammonia, chlorine, hydrogen sulfide or hydrogen cyanide.
• Conduct and manage testing of filter self-rescuers and oxygen self-rescuers against carbon monoxide.
• Responsible for all testing requirements, including process documentation, assessment, and final product release to production.
• Measurement of specific data of raw materials and chemicals, including process documentation, assessment, and final release to support incoming inspection.
• Oversee general laboratory activities such as titration, photometry, mechanical tests, oil and grease residue and laboratory organization

Qualifications

• Chemist / Chemical Engineer Degree (Master, Diploma)
• At least 3 5 years’ experience in a senior Laboratory position, including proficiency in data analysis and project management.
• Lean quality management tool knowledge like Poka Yoke, Six Sigma, Ishikawa etc. preferred.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Ability to build highly effective working relationships with other functional and business leaders, to define a common strategy and processes that meet the customers’ needs.
• Good MS-office knowledge. SAP preferred.
• Continuous improvement mindset in challenging existing business process approaches.
• Convey priorities with the right sense of urgency and importance.
• Empowers others to achieve desired results and holds them accountable.
• High level of proficiency in English, written and verbal. Confident in business discussions

Benefits

• Tarif IG Chemie
• 37.5 hours / week
• Holiday pay
• Christmas bonus
• 30 days vacation + 5 days FMOA
• Fruit basket
• Coffee
• Water dispenser
• Employee parking lot
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