Quality Assurance Associate

Linde plc; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde plc is seeking a quality-focused lab professional to support investigations, audits, and documentation within a regulated environment. You will utilize analytical instrumentation and statistical methods to improve processes and ensure product quality.

The role emphasizes Independent decision-making, strong documentation, and adherence to GMP/ISO/FDA guidelines, with opportunities for growth in continuous quality improvement across production and lab operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in laboratory testing or QA in regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of analytical methods and data interpretation.
• Ability to work independently and make quality-driven decisions.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with GMP, ISO, FDA, or similar regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead quality investigations involving defects, non-conformances, deviations, complaints, and adverse events.
• Assists in internal and supplier audits and establishing/updating supplier and component specifications and testing as needed.
• Ensures labels are appropriately reviewed and approved for use and meet all internal and external requirements.
• Review all steps performed and ensures that the step in the manufacturing process has taken place as defined in the Batch Production Record.
• Reports findings of in-process errors and provides follow-up to ensure adequate completion of corrective actions.
• Ensures for product disposition, e.g., approvals for release, distribution or rejection.
• Perform statistical analyses of processes as required to meet quality control standards.
• Ensure timely throughput of product through lab work queue.
• Comprehensive familiarity with the lab scope and all associated lab documentation and procedures.
• Operate required analytical instrumentation (GCs, FTIRs, process analyzers, etc.).
• Accurately input and document analytical data into all necessary analytical and plant process logs.
• You must strictly adhere to all necessary calibration requirements within all lab operations.
• Must be willing and able to work in a highly structured work environment with regard to safe and consistent conformance to operating procedures and work practices.
• Conforms to ISO 9001:2008 directives included but not limited to policy and procedures.
• You will support initiatives in Continuous Quality Improvement.
• Through observation of work area(s), is alert to and avoid unsafe behaviors and conditions or other hazards.
• Follows all safety rules/regulations and immediately reports infractions and/or workplace injuries/accidents to proper personnel.

Skills

Laboratory testing

Analytical methods

Independent work

Documentation/communication/organiz

Regulatory familiarity GMP/ISO/FDA

Education

Technical field degree or equivalent

Tools

GCs

FTIRs

Process analyzers

Job description

What you will enjoy doing*

• You will support and lead quality investigations involving defects, non-conformances, deviations, complaints, and adverse events, ensuring timely corrective actions, reporting, data trending, and resolution.
• Assists in internal and supplier audits and establishing/updating supplier and component specifications and testing as needed.
• Ensures labels are appropriately reviewed and approved for use and meet all internal and external requirements
• You will review all steps performed and ensures that the step in the manufacturing process has taken place as defined in the Batch Production Record.
• Reports findings of in-process errors and provides follow-up to ensure adequate completion of corrective actions.
• Ensures for product disposition, e.g., approvals for release, distribution or rejection.
• Perform statistical analyses of processes as required to meet quality control standards.
• Ensure timely throughput of product through lab work queue.
• Comprehensive familiarity with the lab scope and all associated lab documentation and procedures.
• Operate required analytical instrumentation (GCs, FTIRs, process analyzers, etc.).
• You will report problems with analytical instrumentation and assist in subsequent repair(s).
• Accurately input and document analytical data into all necessary analytical and plant process logs.
• You must strictly adhere to all necessary calibration requirements within all lab operations.
• Must be willing and able to work in a highly structured work environment with regard to safe and consistent conformance to operating procedures and work practices.
• Conforms to ISO 9001:2008 directives included but not limited to policy and procedures.
• You will support initiatives in Continuous Quality Improvement.
• Through observation of work area(s), is alert to and avoid unsafe behaviors and conditions or other hazards.
• Follows all safety rules/regulations and immediately reports infractions and/or workplace injuries/accidents to proper personnel.

What makes you great

• You need experience in laboratory testing, quality assurance, or a related technical field.
• Strong understanding of analytical methods, instrumentation, and data interpretation.
• You will have the ability to work independently and make quality‑driven decisions.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with GMP, ISO, FDA, or similar regulatory frameworks.

Preferred

• You have prior experience in industrial gases, pharmaceuticals, food manufacturing, or regulated environments.
• Experience supporting investigations, CAPA, or quality audits.
• Technical training or certification in laboratory sciences or quality systems.

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development. *The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.