Kelly Science & Clinical is seeking a Quality Control Supervisor near Eau Claire, WI.

Shift: Monday - Friday 8am-5pm

Compensation: $74,000-85,000/year DOE

Overview: We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Quality Control Laboratory Supervisor to plan, coordinate, and execute quality control activities, ensuring the continued function and high performance of our laboratory. This role is pivotal in maintaining effective communication with key stakeholders to prioritize team efforts and ensure the proficiency and optimal operation of the factory laboratory, delivering the highest standards in analytical services.

The position is responsible for ensuring Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs) and regulatory compliance, including standard operating procedures, instrument validation, calibration, change control, and the development of technical expertise in laboratory systems. You will work autonomously under the supervision of the Senior Quality Manager.

Shift: 1st Shift

Key Responsibilities:

People and Leadership:

• Provide leadership and development to maintain a team of competent professionals in the laboratory and online satellite laboratories.

• Hire, coach, evaluate, and manage laboratory employees in the Quality Control Laboratory.

• Communicate routinely with Factory Operations, internal support functions, and external contractors to facilitate laboratory operations planning.

Laboratory Methods and Practices:

• Ensure the effective, compliant, and cost-efficient functioning of laboratory operations, including satellite labs.

• Validate and establish new methods, ensuring compliance with FDA requirements.

• Coordinate the completion of qualification, validation, and verification protocols.

• Select and monitor analyses performed by subcontracted laboratories.

• Support the factory in implementing method updates and establishing monitoring plans.

• Ensure accurate, high-quality analysis through validated methods and routine performance testing.

• Conduct investigations and close gaps from audit findings and laboratory deviations.

• Manage equipment/instrumentation acquisition, qualification, and maintenance.

Quality Systems Management:

• Implement and regularly update the laboratory quality system in compliance with regulatory and ISO standards.

• Manage the Shelf Life, Stability, and Finished Product compliance monitoring programs.

• Provide expert support for validation activities related to physio-chemical and microbiological analyses.

Quality Guardianship:

• Ensure unit readiness for internal and external audits.

• Manage follow-up actions on proficiency tests and inter-laboratory comparisons.

• Perform root cause analysis and apply corrective actions for unacceptable results.

• Oversee the periodic maintenance and calibration of analytical instrumentation.

• Audit and report results for chemical, nutritional, microbiological, commercial sterility, nutrient stability, and raw/packaging material inspections.

Quality by Design:

• Support industrialization and project launch steps from an analytical perspective.

Laboratory Safety:

• Ensure a safe working environment and adherence to Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs), Laboratory Safety Standards, and Biosafety/Biosecurity Protocols.

Experience & Qualifications:

Education:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree (preferred in Microbiology, Chemistry, or Food Science).

• Preferred: Master’s Degree (M.S. or MBA).

Experience:

• Required: Minimum 3 years in a quality supervision role in a manufacturing environment.

• Required: Minimum 3 years of Quality Control experience.

• Preferred: Experience in the Infant Formula or Pharmaceutical industries.

Skills:

• Demonstrated leadership and development skills.

• Strong organizational strategy skills with the ability to work under pressure.

• Service-oriented attitude with a demonstrated ability to lead and coach others.

• Detail-oriented with strong lab analytical skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel is required; SAP experience is preferred.

• Expertise in microbiological, chemical, and nutritional analyses, in-line testing, and inspection.

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to make quick, accurate decisions.

• Familiarity with SPC/match/statistical inference.

• Ability to work flexible hours.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here (https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits) for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly ® Science & Clinical?

Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it’s the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.