**Job Description**
**General Purpose:**

Manage and lead laboratory supervisor(s) and technicians and daily operations, ensuring regulatory requirements, compliance, and specifications defined by the company, customers, and regulatory agencies are followed. Provide leadership to drive positive change through influence and example. Serve as point person for quality assurance and quality control and provide oversight and/or review of quality control data. Maintain relationships with other dairy laboratories to facilitate sharing of best practices.

**Job Duties and Responsibilities:**

+ Prepare, conduct, and report audits of laboratories (analytical and pathogen) to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines, company guidelines, industry standards, customer standards, and hygiene
+ Notify manager of deficiencies in the quality system, recommend corrective action, and monitor implementation
+ Maintain quality control documentation (charts, graphs and S...