Lab Director-Petroleum - Intertek USA Inc
Deer Park, TX 77536
About the Job
The Caleb Brett team provides cargo inspection and analytical assessment to the world's petroleum, mining, minerals and biofuels industries. With solutions based on years of expertise, innovation and advanced analytical capabilities, we help customers optimize return on cargoes and help them resolve difficult technical challenges
Intertek is searching for a Lab Director/Petroleum, to join our Caleb Brettteam in our West Gulf Coast region, in Deer Park, TX. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in the world's petroleum, mining, minerals, and biofuels industries!
The Lab Director takes a technical role and has overall responsibility for the technical operations and the provision of the resources needed to ensure the required quality of laboratory operation. The Lab Director shall maintain and improve the laboratory's technical operation efficient in a cost‐effective manner, ensure resources such as manpower,
training, equipment, workflow is available to create a sustainable laboratory operation regionally.
What you'll do:
- Implement, maintain, enforce, and improve the laboratories in the region, the Company's operating plans for the following: Quality Management, Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance, Legal and Ethical Compliance. Training.
- Render to clients an accurate, rapid and efficient testing service of indisputable integrity.
- Collaborate with local lab managers to provide supervision of testing and review of results when necessary.
- Collaborate with local lab managers to ensure that adequate calibrated equipment and trained personnel are available for all jobs in each lab.
- Collaborate with local lab managers to evaluate laboratory employee performance, maintains discipline, and recommends hiring and dismissal across the region.
- Appoint deputies for key laboratory duties and ensures personnel are aware of the relevance and importance of their activities and how their role contributes to the quality system.
- Follow‐up rapidly, all reports of workplace issues. Determines legitimacy of complaints and follow‐up on all legitimate complaints.
- Seek new business.
- Be a positive company representative to clients.
- Carry out all responsibilities in a supportive manner with adherence to the Company's Safety Policy and procedures, Quality Management System, Ethics Policy, Environmental Management System.
- Perform other duties as required.
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- Bachelor 's degree in chemistry or similar field preferred.
- Three + years of laboratory management experience in the petroleum industry is required.
- Knowledge of all aspects of a petroleum laboratory.
- Ability to troubleshoot equipment.
- Develop testing protocols for to meet customer requirements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in laboratory operating systems.
- Protocol, procedure and safety oriented.
- Ability to interact with customers of various backgrounds.
- Ability to develop high achieving teams and interface well with other Intertek departments.
- Understand and analyze the data generated by test methods.
- Model Intertek's 10X Energies at all times within the work place, practicing business the right way
- Be aware of, and adhere to, safety practices and policies to ensure your own safety, as well as the safety of others who may be affected by your actions at work
- Ability to work in fast‐paced, multi‐tasking environment with shifting priorities and demanding deadlines
- Must be detailed‐oriented and able to effectively prioritize and organize workload, with efficient time management
- Ability to communicate and interact effectively in verbal written and presentation formats
Why work at Intertek?
Intertek is a world leader in the $250 billion Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. At Intertek, we exercise our spirit of innovation, the passion of our people and our unmatched customer commitment to realize our purpose of making the world an ever better, safer, and more sustainable place for all. Learn more about Our History and What We Do .
What we have to offer:
When Working with Intertek , you can expect salary and benefit package competitively placed within the local market, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement and more.
Intertek is a drug-free workplace. As a condition of employment, all hires are required to pass a pre-employment drug test.
Intertek believes that Our People are our strongest tool for success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to veteran status or on the basis of disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, or who need assistance applying, please email hr.eeo@intertek.com or call 1-877-694-8543 (option #5) to speak with a member of the HR Department.
#LI-CL1Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Our network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices in more than 100 countries, delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification (ATIC) solutions for our customers' operations and supply chains. Working at Intertek means joining a global network of state-of-the-art facilities and passionate people who deliver superior customer service with a purpose of bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.
