This Manufacturing Scientist is responsible for actively developing, optimizing and troubleshooting production processes for the Alexandria site’s Column Packing, Custom Formulation, and PolyFrit Production teams, their products, and their supporting Quality Control activities. These production workstreams operate within ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 quality systems, requiring focuses and strengths in efficiency, quality, compliance, and teamwork to ensure both individual and workstream success. Regular activities will include transfer of knowledge from R&D to Production, troubleshooting, designing and execution of experiments, data analysis, and preparing reports or presentations. This role will partner on a daily basis with team members across the organization including Engineering, R&D, Lab Operations, Material Handling, Quality Assurance, and others.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the following essential functions satisfactorily.
Essential Functions:
- Process Development & Optimization
- Partner with team members to ensure that new processes and products are transferred from R&D to Production in a complete and timely manner.
- Proactively interface with production, customers, other LGC teams to identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that positively impact quality, capacity, cost control, and customer satisfaction.
- Develop experiments and test plans, including authoring and executing protocols, to validate manufacturing and QC processes.
- Parter with R&D and Lab Operations to define product stability and shipping requirements.
- Product and Process Technical Support & Troubleshooting
- Partner with Production, Quality Assurance, and Customer Service to analyze customer and/or product/process-related risks in connection with CAPA, non-conformance, audit findings, and product/production risk assessments.
- Lead or support investigations and resolution of product failures.
- Effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders to collect data, troubleshoot issues, and provide timeline, accurate responses.
- Documentation & Training
- Ensure that all processes are accurately documented and released through LGC’s documentation control procedures.
- Ensure staff are appropriately trained on all required procedures prior to performing tasks and verify training as needed.
- Data Analysis
- Apply scientific methodology to testing, data collection and analysis and provide actionable information to key stakeholders to enable informed decision making.
- Make recommendations to management as necessary regarding resources required to meet manufacturing objectives, including raw materials, equipment, staffing, and production space.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Manage the priorities of each team to ensure alignment with evolving company and customer needs, and communicate those priorities clearly to stakeholders.
- Product Development and Sustainability
- Represent Operations in design team efforts for new products, product improvements, and new-use implementations.
- Assist Engineering, R&D and Lab Operations in product and process improvements.
- Support Engineering Change Order and Change Control processes.
- Collaborate with R&D on OQ and PQ execution and completion for product and process validation.
- Perform other duties as required.
Other Duties as Assigned: Responds with flexibility and collaboration to the needs of the business – both internally and externally – by addressing important corporate initiatives when requested by management.
Behavioural & Interpersonal Competencies:
- Resonate and operate in line with LGC’s core value behaviors: Passion, Curiosity, Integrity, Brilliance, and Respect
- Promotes cooperation and commitment within a diverse team across the Alexandria site and with external partners to achieve company goals and deliverables
- Highly effective oral and written communication skills
- Highly adaptable, with the ability to adjust priorities and work schedules as business needs evolve
- Possess strong documentation, testing and problem-solving skills
- Makes objective, data‑driven decisions regarding product pass/fail outcomes and maintains integrity in the presence of pressure
- Demonstrated ability to create timelines, prioritize work, and consistently deliver against internal and external requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in the area of quality control inspection concepts
- Experience implementing Operational Effectiveness/Continuous Improvement within processes and teams
- Highly motivated and proactive individual who asks thoughtful questions, seeks to understand, and drives results
- Builds subject-matter expertise and effectively shares knowledge to support training, expansion of capabilities and organizational bench strength
- Proven track record of collaboration and cross-functional problem solving
- Takes ownership of issues and contributes actively to developing and implementing solutions