# Quality Lab Supervisor

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Cordova, IL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,591 - $116,834
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Quality Lab Supervisor at 3M, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.

**Quality Lab Operations**

- Responsible for operations in the quality control and wastewater (WWT) laboratories.

- Provide direct oversight and leadership for lab team members.

- Manage technician schedule to ensure appropriate shift coverage and business continuity.

- Coordinate between production operations and WWT operations to prioritize sample testing and execution based on production and shipment needs.

- Support around-the-clock lab operational needs as required.

**Quality Lab Training Program**

- Ensure lab technician training remains current, effective, and compliant with applicable requirements.

- Oversee technician training progression, qualification, and development.

- Support onboarding and training of new quality technicians.

- Identify and implement improvements to lab training processes and documentation.

**Safety & Environmental Support**

- Serve as an HRP champion within the lab.

- Ensure HRP+ tools are used appropriately and consistently in applicable lab situations.

- Identify safety and environmental improvement opportunities and implement effective solutions.

- Serve as a lab point of contact for EHS audits, reviews, and compliance-related activities.

- Promote a proactive safety culture through coaching, engagement, and daily leadership presence.

**Cost Management**

- Identify and support cost-reduction opportunities within the lab.

- Partner with chemists, technologists, and other technical resources on cost of poor-quality reduction initiatives.

- Ensure an efficient utilization of labor, materials, equipment, and external services.

**Continuous Improvement**

- Champion continuous improvement initiatives within the quality & WWT labs.

- Coach lab technicians on Lean, 5S, and standard work fundamentals.

- Perform daily lab audits using the “clean to inspect, inspect to detect, detect to correct, correct to perfect” methodology.

- Support development of lab equipment preventive maintenance schedules and maintenance logbook utilization.

- Lead kaizen events and improvement projects within the lab.

- Capture measurable improvements and share best practices with other areas of the site and division.

The expected compensation range for this position is $95,591 - $116,834, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing
- quality
- research & development
- laboratory

### Nice to have
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in sciences and/ or engineering
- Medical product and/or quality management system experience
- Prior experience supervising individual contributors
- Experienced and knowledgeable in routine test procedures, equipment validation, and problem solving

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