Do you have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Metallurgy, or other natural sciences? The Doe run Company is searching for a Lab Superintendent to direct and coordinate all areas of analysis at Central Lab to maximize throughput and achieve operational goals while meeting the needs of the customers (including samples from Mills, environmental, R&D, jackhammer, and diamond drill core). Maintains quality and timeliness of all laboratory operations within budgetary guidelines and ensure compliance with all regulatory directives, policies, procedures and regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee long-range planning, identify opportunities for improvement or changes needed to optimize performance, improve safety and remain compliant with all regulations. Prioritize projects and tasks and assign resources for the achievement of goals.
• Ensuring Quality Assurance and Quality Control: review and update quality manuals, review instrument performance, adhere to SOP and other work tasks via audits, developing new methods of analysis.
• Lead and develop lab teams and processes, delegate and direct lab supervisors in the performance of their duties and communicate lab performance information to management and crews to enhance performance.
• Make timely and effective decisions regarding laboratory procedures and analytical methods to ensure quality results are produced.
• Monitor Analytical Results: review data and assays produced by laboratory technicians, ensure that quality checks run withing the acceptable limits; that assay figures are correctly obtained and entered; and that appropriate procedures are used to obtain results.
• Create, maintain, edit, and update laboratory SOP's to comply with safety and environmental requirements as well as assessing and improving current methods; completing Demonstrations of Capability with employees to ensure knowledge, mastery of, and compliance with SOP's; tracking employee paperwork demonstrating commitment to comply with SOP's.
• Manage workflow and training for personnel while monitoring customer satisfaction.
• Coach and develop employees to ensure needed skills are available to meet lab needs.
• Develop annual budget and oversee annual spending within approved budget parameters to ensure supplies are available and the lab is kept in good condition.
• Foster a culture to maintain EHS (environmental, health and safety) compliance by allocating resources, establishing expectations, and holding teams accountable for adherence to EHS policies, procedures and best practices, reviewing reports and ensuring corrective action for unsafe acts or conditions, incidents, and deviations; and participating in the continuous improvement in EHS performance through management systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of experience of experiences as a chemist, metallurgist, or related field.
• Minimum 1 year in a leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Metallurgy, or other natural sciences.
• Must have laboratory specific MSHA/OSHA and environmental training, or ability to obtain once hired.
• Experience operating and maintaining laboratory equipment and conducting regular assessments to record the lab equipment's performance.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Mathematical aptitude for accessing accuracy and precision of sample analysis and related trending of results and QA/QC samples.
• Proficient ability to read and understand laboratory results/data.
• Proficient in managing workflow and personnel appropriately to keep up the sample demands.
• Proficient in coaching, managing and leading teams.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, budgeting (Adaptive), Invoicing (Dataserv), I-Series (LIMS, ETMS), Database (PI, MS SQP Server, Access, AcQuire), HRIS (UKG) and PeopleSoft.
• Proficient in compliance with environmental regulations.
• Proficient in compliance with Safety regulations.
• Valid driver's license required (local travel).

Work Environment & Physical Requirements:

• Frequently required to wear personal protective equipment, including but not limited to, a respirator, hearing protection and eyewear, and work near moving, mechanical parts.
• Exposed to moderate noise levels.
• Regularly requires standing, walking, reaching with hands/arms, and repetitive movement; frequently requires grasping and pushing; occasionally requires feeling attributes of objects, driving, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling.
• Requires clarity of vision, precise hand-eye coordination, and the ability to identify and distinguish colors.
• Regularly required to lift up to 15 pounds; frequently required to lift up to 50 pounds; rarely required to lift up to 100 pounds.

All health and welfare benefits as well as 401K are effective on your start date! In addition, we offer tuition reimbursement to help you grow and develop within our organization with ample opportunities for advancement.

Based in St. Louis, The Doe Run Company is a privately held natural resources company and one of the largest integrated lead producers in the Western Hemisphere. Dedicated to environmentally responsible mineral and metal production, Doe Run has facilities in Missouri, Washington and Arizona and operates one of the world's largest, single-site lead recycling facilities, located in Boss, MO. Using innovative mining techniques, Doe Run skillfully taps one of the largest lead deposits in the world.

As stewards of the mineral resources in our care, we strive to provide premium services and products to people who share our belief in enhancing the quality of life. You may view our sustainability report located at http://sustainability.doerun.com/.

The Doe Run Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all areas, including but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, selection, training, education, compensation, benefits, promotion, job transfer, upgrading, separation and recall regardless of the individual's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, and/or other protected categories under all Federal, State, and local laws.

Experience

• Experience operating and maintaining laboratory equipment and conducting regular assessments to record the lab equipment's performance.
• Laboratory specific MSHA/OSHA and environmental training, or ability to obtain once hired.
• 1 year(s): Leadership Role
• 7 year(s): Experience as a chemist, metallurgist, or related field

Education

• Bachelors or better in Chemistry or related field

Licenses & Certifications

• Personal Driver's License

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)