Quality Control, Team Leader

Quality Control, Team Lead Aurora, CO

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products, which have the power to improve the lives of a billion smokers worldwide. With huge change comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Phillip Morris International is searching for its next Quality Control Team Lead for our new Aurora, CO plant.

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Your day-to-day’

Oversee and optimize the work processes of the Quality Control team, ensuring all activities align with established procedures to deliver accurate and timely analysis and testing. Verify the use of calibrated instruments and validated methods to ensure compliance with the quality system and regulations for risk-reduced products (RRP). Support initiatives and cross-functional projects, including ISO 17025 accreditation, to enhance product and system quality. The essential job functions of this position include but are not limited to, the following. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed. The company retains the discretion to modify or remove job duties at any time.

• Ensure adherence to PMI and legal standards, policies, and Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability guidelines.
• Promote a proactive, safety-first culture through preventive and predictive approaches in alignment with the Integrated Operating System.
• Lead and develop a motivated, skilled team to achieve performance goals, professional growth, and compliance with the PMI leadership model.
• Foster an environment that encourages team members to maximize their talents and potential.
• Develop and execute a Qualification Matrix and structured training path for each role.
• Oversee testing of raw materials, semi-finished, and finished products, ensuring accurate reporting in relevant systems.
• Ensure proper retention and storage of samples under appropriate conditions.
• Provide technical input on laboratory analyses and method development for departmental projects.
• Support instrument installations, qualifications, and method transfers/validations.
• Ensure proper execution and adherence to Quality Control activities and PMI Good Laboratory Practices.
• Confirm all necessary testing is conducted and associated records are reviewed, approved, and retained.
• Review and approve Certificates of Analysis (CoA), sampling instructions, and other Quality Control procedures
• Laboratory Calibration, Qualification, Maintenance & Change Management
• Organize the calibration, qualification, and maintenance of laboratory equipment to ensure accurate and reliable results.
• Ensure Change Management protocols are properly applied when required. Review and approve associated protocols and reports.
• Provide input to the QC Manager regarding OPEX and CAPEX budgets and budget reviews.
• Investigate non-conformities, out-of-specification results, and trends in a timely manner.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement CAPA and quality improvement opportunities to drive continuous improvement.
• Assist in creating and reviewing standard operating procedures, work instructions, analytical methods, and other quality-related documents.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer per the training management system.
• Ensure compliance with QMS requirements and ISO 17025 accreditation standards.
• Support cross-functional quality initiatives and projects at both local and global levels.
• Monitor and report on project progress and key milestones.
• Contribute to developing and implementing advanced lab measurement techniques and methods.

What we are looking for:

• For a bachelor's degree: 5 years of Quality and laboratory experience in a regulated industry such as tobacco, food, or pharmaceuticals.
• For a master’s degree: 2 years of Quality and laboratory experience in a regulated industry such as tobacco, food, or pharmaceuticals.
• Strong expertise in HPLC and GCMS, including experience with Agilent software.
• Advanced knowledge of Quality tools, root cause analysis, analytical methodologies, and statistical tools.
• Ability to analyze and transform data into meaningful reports.
• Strong mentorship skills with the ability to train and develop junior staff.
• Familiarity with international standards (ISO 17025); experience in FDA-regulated industries is a plus.

Annual base salary: $94,440- $118,000

What we offer:

We offer employees a competitive base salary and the potential to receive a discretionary annual bonus. Employees (and their families) also have the option to enroll in our company's medical, dental, and vision plans. The company offers flexible spending accounts for health care, dependent care, and savings accounts for those who enroll in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). Employees are auto enrolled in our company’s 401(k)/Deferred Profit Sharing (DPS) Plan, which provides for both annual 5% employer matching and annual employer contributions.

As a new hire, you will enjoy paid vacation time, paid sick time, 12 paid company holidays, and 3 paid floating holidays. We also provide our employees with paid parental leave, paid family and medical leave, paid bereavement leave, paid sick and safe time, paid public emergency leave, paid time off for jury duty, and paid time off for certain activities relating to their status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or crime. The company offers unpaid National Guard and reserve leave, unpaid civil air patrol leave, unpaid qualified volunteer leave, and unpaid time off for employees engaging in certain activities relating to criminal proceedings.

The company also provides basic life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, and short-term and long-term disability insurance to employees at no cost. Employees have the option to purchase supplemental life and AD&D coverage for themselves, their spouse, and their dependent children.

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment, and explore.
• Join an inclusive, diverse culture where each team member’s contribution is valued. Collaborate with some of the world’s best professionals and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our size and scale provide endless growth opportunities.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: To improve the lives of millions of smokers.

PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 2,300 employees.

PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008. PMI’s affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company’s acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022. Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future. Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate, and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives. In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match – a leader in oral nicotine delivery – creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI’s IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match’s General Snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products, and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com.