Laboratory Technician

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Pharmaceutical Laboratory Analyst to join our Ashland business at our Columbus, OH plant. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Quality Control/Quality Assurance function. This position will report to the Quality Control Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Testing of raw materials, in-process control samples, and final products  
• Analytical controls are placed on raw materials to verify identification and required quality.   
• Understanding the equipment cleaning specifications are critical to prevent cross contamination.
• Communicating results to production and process engineers.
• The use of the laboratory iLIMS tracking system (raw material samples, in-process samples, final samples, instrumentation calibration, and stability samples).
• Secondary responsibilities include process development support, process troubleshooting, analytical method development support, environmental samples, and quality systems support. 
• Documentation consistent with good manufacturing practices (GMP).
• Calibration of analytical instrumentation.
• Scheduled testing associated with the stability program.
• Provide analytical support of the Ashland Columbus waste treatment facility, raw material qualifications and standard qualifications.
• Provide non-routine testing associated with corrective action preventative action (CAPA) investigations such as customer complaints, out of specification (OOS) investigations, product failures, and shelf-life extension requests.
• Other Quality Control Responsibilities
  • Maintaining the raw material and final product retain systems.
  • Assisting QC Supervision with maintaining laboratory supplies.
  • Managing lab, sample, and chemical waste disposal.
  • Following the Chemical Hygiene Plan, practice good housekeeping, and general maintenance of the lab.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Associate's degree in Chemistry or related field
• Knowledge and understanding of analytical chemistry
• Knowledge and understanding of good manufacturing practices (GMP)
• Preferably 0-3 years in a chemical manufacturing environment
• Attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Strong computer skills which include application knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
• Good organizational and documentation skills
• Willingness and ability to work in 12-hour intervals and to manage the lab alone or with little supervision on weeknights and weekends.

“Do you want to work in the Pharmaceutical Field?  Do you love working in the lab?  Do you want to learn or expend your knowledge of analytical chemistry?  Do you want to contribute to the success of a site whose products help other’s health and wellness?  Do you want to participate and learn how pharmaceutical products and a variety of complex molecules are made and tested?  Do you want to learn about chemical reactions?  In this exciting role you would be exposed to and learn about chemical manufacturing and associated testing in a quality control laboratory.  You will gain knowledge and experience working with a variety of analytical techniques such as  GC, HPLC, FT-IR, UV-VIS, Titration, melting point, viscosity.  In this role you would be trained in all of these techniques and more.  In addition, you would learn and be trained in Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in the pharmaceutical field.