Laboratory Manager Specialist

LEGO Gruppe; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Ein innovatives Unternehmen sucht einen Laborleiter, der die Qualität und Effizienz in der Materialanalyse steigert. In dieser Schlüsselrolle sind Sie verantwortlich für die Entwicklung und Aufrechterhaltung von Qualitätsstandards, die Sicherstellung der Einhaltung von Vorschriften und die kontinuierliche Verbesserung der Laborprozesse. Sie arbeiten eng mit einem talentierten Team zusammen, um nachhaltige Lösungen zu finden, die die Zukunft der Produkte prägen. Wenn Sie eine Leidenschaft für Qualität und Innovation haben, ist dies Ihre Chance, einen bedeutenden Einfluss zu hinterlassen.

Benefits

Familienpflegeurlaub

Lebens- und Invaliditätsversicherung

Wellness-Programme

Mitarbeiterrabatt

Bonusprogramm

Hybrid-Arbeitsmodell

Qualifications

• Erfahrung in der Qualitätskontrolle und analytischen Laboren.
• Proficiency in statistischen Methoden zur Datenanalyse.
• Entwicklung und Pflege eines Laborqualitätsystems.

Responsibilities

• Qualitätssysteme im Materiallabor aufrechterhalten und entwickeln.
• Kontinuierliche Verbesserungen in den Laborabläufen identifizieren.
• Zusammenarbeit mit R&D-Teams zur Leistungsüberwachung.

Skills

Qualitätskontrolle

Analytische Chemie

Statistische Methoden

Problemlösungsfähigkeiten

Kommunikationsfähigkeiten

Education

Analytische Chemie

Chemie

Materialwissenschaften

Chemieingenieurwesen

Tools

IR

DSC

TGA

DMA

Rheologie

Mikroskopie

Job description

Job Description

Bring your passion for quality, innovation, and cutting-edge materials testing. Step into a high-impact role where your expertise will shape the future of material analysis! We’re looking for a Laboratory Manager Specialist to join our dynamic Materials Test & Analysis team—a key player in testing and analyzing polymers, masterbatches, decoration inks, and powders that drive innovation across industries!

Are you passionate about quality and aim for excellence in your everyday work? Would you like to help safeguard the quality of the materials used for LEGO products by continuously improving how we work in our material laboratory?

If so, this might be the opportunity for bringing your experience from increasing the quality and performance of day-to-day operations in a laboratory to help us shape the future of ours!

Core Responsibilities

Your overall responsibility will be maintaining and developing the quality system within the Materials Laboratory. This role is critical for ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, facilitating innovation, and supporting continuous improvement in materials testing processes.

You will be responsible for:

• Quality system governance: Maintain and develop quality standards and processes to ensure standards and compliance in laboratory activities.

• Continuous improvements: Identify and implement novel ways of working while continuously improving the level of service and efficiency.

• Participate in development of a system for monitoring performance of methods and equipment to identify and implement improvements in collaboration with method owners and super users.

• Support in procurement and qualification of equipment, accessories, services, etc. to maintain laboratory capabilities.

• Support in validation of test methods.

Play your part in our team succeeding

In this specialist role you will be part a team consisting of highly skilled laboratory technicians and laboratory interns collaborating closely with the specialists in the R&D Laboratory team.

You will become a part of the Materials Department that is responsible for polymers, masterbatches, decoration inks and powders for additive manufacturing.

Materials are at the core of LEGO products and the aim of the department is to develop and maintain a safe, high-quality and sustainable material platform to enable business needs and empower the organization to use materials to its full potential.

In the LEGO Group, the sustainability agenda is a high strategic priority that excites and engages both the owner family, executive level as well as all the employees in the multi-functional teams. This will set the frame for the future of this role where finding sustainable solutions will be the key in future products.

Do you have what it takes

The ideal candidate has an education in Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Materials or Chemical Engineering combined with experience within quality control, analytical laboratories or similar.

• Experience from working as a specialist in a laboratory environment

• Proficiency in using statistical methods in a laboratory setting to analyze data and validate findings and experience with hypothesis testing and experimental design.

• Experience in developing and maintaining a laboratory quality system and associated processes

• Proven experience in analysing laboratory data and using the data to improve methods and systems

• Systematic and structured approach to problem solving, e.g. when working with laboratory workflows, equipment maintenance, quality assurance

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills You are curious and have a keen interest in sharing knowledge with your colleagues and other departments.

• Ideally you have experience on testing mechanical properties, colours and/or using analytical methods such as IR, DSC, TGA, DMA, rheology, or microscopy

• Great teammate that is motivated by playing an active role in developing your colleagues.

• Proficient in English, both written and verbal

The position is based in London, UK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeksto encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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