Quality Team Leader

Join Ecolab’s Supply Chain team as Quality Team Leader in Egypt and help make the world cleaner, safer and healthier. We’re growing and need talented people like you to help us continue to protect the world’s most vital resources.

In this role, you will follow quality control guidelines and procedures to ensure that raw materials and finished goods comply with engineering and product specifications. Supervises technicians in conducting quality assurance tests to ensure that products meet established specifications.

**What’s in it For You**:

- The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments
- The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
- The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best

**What You Will Do**:

- Communicate quality control information to all relevant organizational departments, outside vendors, or contractors.
- Document testing procedures, methodologies, or criteria.
- Review statistical studies, technological advances, or regulatory standards and trends to stay abreast of issues in the field of quality control.
- Create and implement inspection and testing criteria or procedures.
- Identify quality problems or areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
- Monitor performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
- Produce reports regarding nonconformance of products or processes, daily production quality, root cause analyses, or quality trends.
- Review and update standard operating procedures or quality assurance manuals.
- Evaluate new testing and sampling methodologies or technologies to determine usefulness.
- Instruct staff in quality control and analytical procedures.
- Analyze quality control test results and provide feedback and interpretation to production management or staff.
- Oversee workers including supervisors, inspectors, or laboratory workers engaged in testing activities.
- Coordinate the selection and implementation of quality control equipment, such as inspection gauges.
- Direct the tracking of defects, test results, or other regularly reported quality control data.
- Direct product testing activities throughout production cycles.
- Identify critical points in the manufacturing process and specify sampling procedures to be used at these points.
- Stop production if serious product defects are present.
- Verify that raw materials, purchased parts or components, in-process samples, and finished products meet established testing and inspection standards.
- Review quality documentation necessary for regulatory submissions and inspections.
- Generate and maintain quality control operating budgets.
- Collect and analyze production samples to evaluate quality.
- Participate in the development of product specifications.
- Instruct vendors or contractors on quality guidelines, testing procedures, or ways to eliminate deficiencies.
- Confer with marketing and sales departments to define client requirements and expectations.
- Monitor the development of new products to help identify possible problems for mass production.
- Audit and inspect subcontractor facilities including external laboratories.
- Review and approve quality plans submitted by contractors.

**Position Details**:

- Authority to approve/reject incoming raw materials/package supplies and in-process and finished products.
- Authority to place the product on hold for quality deficiencies.
- Train, direct, lead, and motivate quality control staff to analyze raw materials and finished goods in conformance to specifications.
- Reports to Production Manager

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
- Two to five years of relevant work experience.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered vet