BioLife Solutions is repeatedly named one of
Washington’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, a list curated by Seattle Business Magazine. We welcome you to apply to join our dynamic, high-energy team. Here you will find a performance-based, family-oriented environment where authentic communication and treating colleagues with respect are required. Our employees receive a competitive benefits package, which includes generous company stock awards and a 401k matching program.
BioLife Solutions is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of class-defining cell and gene therapy bioproduction tools and services. Our solutions facilitate basic and applied research and commercialization of new therapies by maintaining the health of biologic source material and finished products during manufacturing, storage, and distribution. Our solutions offer commercial companies and clinical researchers significant improvement in shelf life and post-preservation viability and function of biologic materials. Our tools portfolio includes our proprietary, serum-free and protein-free, fully defined CryoStor® freeze media and HypoThermosol® shipping and storage media, ThawSTAR® family of automated, water-free thawing products, evo® cold chain management system, and Custom Biogenic Systems high-capacity storage freezers. Services include SciSafe biologic and pharmaceutical materials storage. For more information, please visit: www.biolifesolutions.com
General Summary And Purpose
The Quality Control Inspector is a core team member of the Quality Department. The Quality Control Inspector ensures that required testing is performed to the highest degree of detail to ensure safety and consistency for BioLife’s customers. The role will perform all functions in compliance with Company Policies and Quality Systems.
Duties And Responsibilities
50 – 80% of time:
- Performs line clearance of the inspection and finishing area during product finishing activities, including: removal of batch related materials from the area, disposal of rejected materials, staging of materials.
- Performs finished product inspection for defects and removes defects. Ensures that products meet specifications for appearance and container integrity. Completes end of batch reconciliation and count verification.
- Consistently performs product labeling and secondary. Replenishes packaging materials to work areas.
- Ensures the receipt and storage of quarantined products is done in accordance with company procedures.
- Follows Standard Operating Procedures, Safety Policies, and Good Manufacturing Practices to ensure that job functions are performed under compliance.
- Performs inventory on finished product retain samples.
- Effectively completes any assigned training in a timely manner.
20 – 50% of time:
- Performs regular maintenance of equipment and ordering of supplies, as needed.
- Authors and reviews Quality Control controlled documents, as needed.
Other Duties
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Reporting Relationships
This position reports to the Manager, Quality Control .
Job Requirements
- Excellent communication skills including some technical writing skills and spreadsheet management. Able to communicate in person and via email clearly, concisely, and politely.
- This position requires a person who is highly organized and detail oriented and must meet performance expectations on schedule.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and able to adjust work load based on changing priorities.
- Must be able to perform controlled paced, repetitive operations with a high degree of accuracy.
- May be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time and must be able to lift a minimum of 50Lbs.
- Must not have unusual sensitivity to typical laboratory chemicals (i.e. sanitization agents).
- Must be able to perform visual inspection of finished goods. Must have good visual acuity and color perceptions and have good manual dexterity.
- May occasionally be required to work overtime and weekends as needed.
Job Specifications
- Education Minimum: High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Experience: No minimum experience requirement.
- Field of expertise: assembly/production line, lean/5S, materials management, inspection
- Software Used: Microsoft Office, Salesforce.com, equipment-specific software
BioLife Solutions provides a substance-free workplace, and all offers of employment will be contingent on opiate drug test and background check.
BioLife Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The US base salary range for this position at full-time is $40,881 – $57,211.yr Our salary ranges are determined by position, level, location, and market competitive benchmarks. Individual pay within a level is determined by work location (including geographic pay zone region), job related skills, experience, education, and training.
The BioLife Solutions total rewards program includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401K with generous match, life and disability insurance as well as time off programs of Vacation and Sick time. Additionally, we believe in our team members sharing the success of our business and therefore we provide stock equity grants as a part of our total rewards package.
