Laboratory Supervisor

Do you believe in the power of teamwork and sharing ideas? Do you take pride in delivering exceptional quality and service with everything you do? Do you seek out ideas for improving the status quo? If you want to make a difference and love being surrounded by the best and the brightest, Bureau Veritas Laboratories might be the place for you

**Imagine being surrounded by the brightest minds in the industry.**

Bureau Veritas is looking for a

**LABORATORY SUPERVISOR - GENERAL CHEMISTRY SECTION**

**This is a Full-Time position with Medical Benefits and Retirement Savings Plan**

**As**
**a LABORATORY SUPERVISOR, your responsibilities**
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**are**:

- Maximize human, equipment and financial resources and ensure that they are used appropriately.
- Suggest new processes and procedures that will increase Bureau Veritas’s market share, profile and profitability.
- Facilitate the production of high quality defensible data, safely and on time.
- Ensure methods in use meet current and proposed regulatory guidelines.
- Organize and direct staff, to maintain a good working environment and ensure continuous improvement in productivity and efficiency

**Key Accountability/Responsibilities**:

- Lead and develop staff, including responsibility for recruitment of new employees, setting objectives, evaluating performance and expectations, coaching and mentoring, working jointly with employees in the development of their career path, ensuring that adequate training is provided
- Coordinate requests or recommend resource planning, e.g. need for additional staff or equipment
- Monitor lab supplies and equipment
- Develop strategic plans with the objective of preparing the department for continued growth
- Provides feedback during budgeting process as required
- Elevate significant & complex resource issues to Manager
- Develop and nurture ongoing relationship with peers in other internal departments and its customers
- With the Manager, assist in developing business plans that increase Bureau Veritas’s profile in the region
- Develop and maintain a positive work environment for employees
- Act as technical resource for Manager, Customer Service and staff
- Support and comply with all Bureau Veritas policies, Quality System and Health & Safety program
- Coordinate the development of new methods, as required, and ensure documents, e.g. SOPs, meet quality standards
- Ensure that SOPs are reviewed and updated, as required
- Ensure control charts are reviewed and updated, as required
- Ensure that employees are following the SOP’s and work to reduce non-conformances
- Provide information, instructions and assistance to all staff in order to protect the health and safety of our employees
- Understand and enforce our EHS Policy as well as the Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Provide all staff with proper, well-maintained equipment, plus any other special personal protective devices which may be required
- Conduct safety tailgate meetings with staff regularly
- Conduct weekly PPE audits
- Participate in monthly worksite inspections of their area
- Ensure hazard assessments and critical task analysis are done within their area of responsibility
- Monitor staff and hold them accountable for their individual safety performance
- Participate, when requested in internal and external audits
- Maintain training records and relevant qualifications
- Other duties as required

**You are an ideal LABORATORY SUPERVISOR if you have [Minimum Requirements]**:

- B.Sc., technical diploma or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated success in the role of Senior Analyst
- 5 years of experience in specific environment of which two (2) years are at a leadership level
- Up-to-date knowledge of laboratory process and automation
- Thorough understanding of Bureau Veritas 's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Attributes:

- Uses good judgement, trains and assists in resolution of employee relations issues
- Strong computer skills
- Good team building, training and coaching skills
- Accurately follows Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and instructions
- Detail oriented with accurate record keeping skills
- Good time-management, multi-tasking and priority setting skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Positive outlook with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Adapts to a changing environment
- Works both independently and as part of a team
- Learns quickly

Bureau Veritas is a world leader in testing, inspection and certification services.

When we look at Bureau Veritas, we want to see a reflection of the communities in which we work. Inclusion is about actively involving every employee’s ideas, knowledge, perspectives, approaches and styles to maximize business success. Inclusion is about attracting new talent who will bring more diversity to our workforce, with differences in culture, professional backgrounds and beliefs.

Our purpose: shaping a world of trust.

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