Supervisor, Quality Lab - Endotoxin

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your creativity addresses challenges

You are creative, thorough, and a heads-down do-er. You embrace a challenge and truly apply the collaborative powers of your team to produce great results. You are motivated by work that is never the same from one day to the next. As a Quality Lab Supervisor- Endotoxin, you are unafraid of navigating through necessary internal processes to facilitate a product you deeply believe in. You can absorb and act on complex procedures and data and train your team or peers if needed. You take pride in getting things done quickly without sacrificing safety or quality.

Your Team at Baxter

Within Quality, every role makes a difference. Products that Baxter makes are shipped worldwide for patients in need. Whether it's building a new process from scratch or facing a never-before-seen production hurdle, individuals within Quality are given the trust and opportunity to bring creativity to the table. Regardless of your specific role with a product, it is sure to touch a portion of our global operation.

The mission of Baxter is to save and sustain lives. This mission is embedded into everything we do. This means if there is a decision to be made where quantity and quality are at odds, we will always choose quality. Our patients come first, always.

The Quality function values both working together as a team and independently. We draw energy from working in a plant or an office where there are opportunities to collaborate. As the company evolves, so does the way our team approaches work as it strives to create top-of-the-line products.

We build relationships with each other to get work done. Building these relationships is easy because we all share common traits of being reliable, ethical, and caring. We lean on our colleagues for their expertise and hold each other accountable. We feel empowered to speak up when there's a new insight or opportunity to improve something. This open dialog builds trust within the team and helps create a better product for our customers.

What we offer from Day One:

• Shift flexibility to trade shifts and leverage overtime opportunities
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 160 hours of Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401K match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement

What you'll be doing

• Prepare samples and perform endotoxin testing on raw materials, solution, and water for bioburden
• Perform particulate matter testing on solution
• Perform daily pH meter, balance, and pipette verification
• Administrator for Honeywell Automated Temperature Monitoring System
• Perform peptidoglycan and gel clot testing as needed
• Review calibration and daily lab check reports and approve testing
• Generate monthly trend reports
• Perform limit recalculations for trending purposes
• Conduct investigations for out of limit results
• Sterility testing for LAL
• Document Subject Matter Expert
• Act as a liaison between Endotoxin lab and Operations for batch release test scheduling to ensure customer commitments are met
• Calibration of micro-pipettes, analytical balance, water bath, dry heat bath, depyrogenation ovens, light obscuration particle counters and spectrophotometer
• Responsible for daily lab upkeep including cleaning, glassware washing and depyrogenation, supply replenishment, syringe and endotoxin prep
• Sustain a clean and safe work environment utilizing 6S principles
• Operate laboratory instrumentation and equipment such as laminar flow hoods, micro-pipettors, pH meters, analytical balances, and instruments used to perform particulate matter and endotoxin testing
• Write, revise, and approve Standard Operating Procedures and review job-related technical documents
• Participate and/or support internal/external, and regulatory audits as needed
• Write exceptions, nonconformance reports