What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Compliance Associate position at Reckitt?
Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
Research & Development
In R&D, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.
We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.
The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.
About the role
The Quality Compliance Associate will perform chemical and physical testing on in-process, finished, validation, and R&D products according to relevant procedures and laboratory Test Methods, SOPs, etc. Additionally, the role includes providing support for or performing calibration, laboratory investigations, and projects as required. Participation in advanced training on equipment and methods, as well as assisting in validation and method development, is also expected. The position involves working evening and night shifts, typically 8 hours from Monday to Friday, with flexibility to cover 6pm-6am night shifts as needed, including some weekends.
Your responsibilities
Duties:
- Analyze sampled materials/goods in accordance with standard methods and specifications, properly record results, and render decisions concerning acceptability, initiating appropriate paperwork to accept or reject material.
- Perform job tasks according to BOMs, Specs, test methods, and SOPs.
- Maintain accurate and updated summary records for each material analyzed.
- Assist Processing/Mixing Teams with batch process adjustments.
- Calculate and assist with the rework of unacceptable batches.
- Prepare, date, and standardize laboratory reagents as assigned.
- Report inconsistencies in specification, BOM, or test methods, including where material test results do not meet specification.
- Review existing methods and specifications and make recommendations for changes and/or corrections.
The experience we're looking for
- B.S. degree in a science field, preferably Chemistry, with 1-3 years of experience in an analytical laboratory of an industrial and/or manufacturing plant environment.
- Ability to work with lab instruments such as GC, NIR, UV/VIS, HPLC, etc.
- Ability to accurately complete paperwork/documentation, including quality documents.
- Ability to communicate effectively with supervisors and/or coworkers, contributing individually as well as with team members.
- Proficiency in Windows-based applications (Word, Excel, etc.) as well as Outlook, Internet Explorer.
- Must be able to handle chemicals within permissible levels.
- Must understand the metric system and be able to convert units.
Bonus:
- Ability to work with lab instruments such as GC, NIR, UV/VIS, HPLC, etc.
- Experience with LIMS, SAP, Quality One, or other similar programs.
What we offer
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
Equality
We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.
