Specialty Gas Lab Manager

Do We Have an Opportunity for You! Position 0pen: Lab Manager. Hours of work: 8am-5pm Monday-Friday, in-person. Location: Portland, OR About Us: Industrial Source is a leading provider of specialty gases, manufacturing and distributing pure gases and calibration mixes to precise specifications. We utilize advanced techniques and state-of-the-art analytical equipment to guarantee precision for our customers. Our commitment to innovation, quality, and customer service has made us a trusted partner in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and research. We are seeking an experienced Specialty Gas Lab Manager to oversee lab operations, ensuring product quality and driving continuous improvement. This role is critical in managing the analysis and certification of specialty gases, ensuring compliance, maintaining instrumentation, and supervising one full-time lab technician. Our labs, located in Springfield and Portland, are ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Accredited. What You’ll Do: Gas Analysis and Quality Assurance: Utilize analytical instrumentation for gas analysis, troubleshoot methods and equipment, analyze multi-component gas mixtures using gas chromatography, and prepare certification reports to ensure all products meet industry standards and customer expectations. Process Optimization and Compliance: Develop and refine analytical methods, monitor compliance with SOPs, review and approve analytical results, and coordinate with our Distribution Manager on delivery schedules. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to all relevant safety and regulatory guidelines, including ISO, FDA, and EPA standards. Lab Management and Operations: Oversee lab operations, including staffing, scheduling, inventory management, and equipment calibration/validation. Maintain accurate records of laboratory activities, including test results, quality control data, and regulatory compliance documentation. Customer Support: Collaborate with sales and customer service teams to address technical inquiries and resolve quality concerns. Who You Are: Experienced: Associate's degree in Chemistry or related field, or 3-5 years of relevant experience, including work with ISO 9001, ISO 17025, and other quality management systems (preferred). Knowledgeable: Skilled in analytical chemistry, gas analysis techniques, including gas chromatography and spectroscopy. Enthusiastic team player who thrives in collaborative environments, knowing that our collective efforts are the driving force behind our innovation and success. Comfortable in a fast-paced, deadline-sensitive environment while exercising independent decision-making. Enjoy working on multiple projects at the same time while showing flexibility with changing priorities. Meticulous, highly organized, forensic and relentlessly curious in problem solving. Eager to learn, improving skills every day and ready to do the best work of your career. Energized by the challenge to make a difference. A natural leader who excels in guiding and mentoring lab techs and teammates, providing training and development opportunities to boost their skills and performance. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Able and willing to move steel cylinders (up to 75 pounds). Why Us? Serving the Pacific Northwest since 1945, we are a 3rd generation family-owned, dynamic company and a recognized leader in the markets we serve: Industrial Source – welding and industrial supplies; LPM Systems – labeling and packaging solution; National Extinguisher Service – fire protect equipment and services; National Fire Fighter Corp. – wildland firefighting gear and equipment; ADCOA- medical, industrial & specialty gas supplier, medical gas & waste gas system installation and service. We take great pride in hiring the best people and focusing on our customers. We help people succeed by rolling up our sleeves and delivering the best service and expertise we can, and by being the trusted partner our customers and employees can count on. We’re also consistently rated as a great place to work. People here love what they do. What it’s Like to Work @ Our Company We are a team that cares, we’re trustworthy, interesting, high-performing, and fun. Our company fully participates in employee development, and we give as much control to employees over what you do when and where. We’re committed and eager learners, and we put others first. We believe by helping people succeed, we fuel prosperity for customers, families, and communities. Our workplace and benefits are designed to support a sustainable, healthy relationship with your work. Our Core Values speak to how we live: Integrity | Family | Fun | Sustainability | Independence | Community We are focused on providing a work environment conducive to the safety, health, and well-being of our people. We have great benefits, a fun environment, and above-market pay. The wage range posted for this position is only a starting point. We have earnings conversations with our team annually with pay increases given regularly. If you’re looking for a career instead of a job, please email us your resume. AND we’d also like you to share with us a few sentences about why you’re interested in the job and how your skills could benefit our company while fulfilling your career goals—include an unstructured cover letter with your resume, sharing these details about you. Take time to research our websites and social media and tell us what speaks to you. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!! Job Type: Full-time Pay: $80,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year Benefits: 401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Employee discount Flexible spending account Health insurance Life insurance Paid parental leave Paid time off Parental leave Professional development assistance Referral program Retirement plan Tuition reimbursement Vision insurance Work Location: In person