Aerosol Laboratory Technician

Beauty Quest Group is a leading integrated manufacturer and marketer of hair care products from branded and private label hair care, color, and styling products to professional salons and specialty retailers.

BQG sells a wide range of hair care products under its own brands, Aquage, RUSK, and One ‘n Only, as well as Private Label brands for leading retailers. BQG also provides contract manufacturing services to other leading marketers of hair care and other topical products.

Our amazing team here at Beauty Quest Group is the driving force and foundation of the company. Our thriving culture is based on Creativity, Innovation, Education, and Teamwork.

Your Role:

An experienced Aerosol Quality / R&D Technician with a minimum 2-year laboratory experience in an Aerosol Cosmetic Laboratory.

General Skills/Abilities:

• Executes daily job duties and schedules tasks as assigned based on project needs.
• Maintain a neat, clean, and safe lab area.
• Able to work independently after projects are identified.
• Knowledge of CGMP.
• Ability to work with quickly changing priorities.
• Ability to follow directions carefully and accurately.
• Ability to perform procedures accurately and efficiently; work independently and with a team; maintain good working relationships with other staff.
• Attention to detail.
• Possesses intermediate computer skills, including familiarity with Microsoft Excel, file organization, and use of the internet for research purposes.

Laboratory:

• Be familiar with the safe filling of aerosol products (Ability/Experience to use Propellent Burette and Lab Crimper etc.)
• Be familiar with the various components of aerosol products (cans, valves, actuators, concentrate, etc.) and how they interact to produce the final product.
• Be familiar with handling small amounts of hazardous chemicals.
• Maintain an inventory of laboratory reagents.
• Safely handle and store laboratory waste.

Formulation:

• (Desirable) Be familiar with surfactant systems, gels, emulsions, serums needed to make hair and skin care products.
• (Desirable) Be familiar with hair care formulations (mousses, hairsprays, spray wax, conditioners, dry shampoos) to make products.
• (Desirable) Be familiar with methods of evaluating their functional effect.
• Ability to produce laboratory-scale batches of cosmetics for research, quality control, and performance evaluation purposes.

Process Scale-up /Manufacturing:

• Participate in pilot scale-up and first manufacturing to ensure (internal and external) customer satisfaction.
• Any Scale-Up experience is desirable.

Communication

• Maintain good verbal and written communication with R&D Team, Sales, and Marketing.
• Document all laboratory experiments; maintain an up-to-date Lab Notebook, procedures, specification recommendations, enter formulas into computer database.
• Advise sales of ongoing projects and timelines.
• Communicate with component and reagent manufacturers to improve product function or troubleshoot problems.
• Provide technical specifications of raw materials, cosmetics products, and aerosol can components to Quality Control and Manufacturing.
• Communicate process and/or formulation changes, improvements of each scale-up to revise, optimize the manufacturing procedures to relevant person (from production, QC, R&D etc.).
• Provide technical support/assistance for customer complaints and aerosol line production issues.

Special Safety Consideration:

• Follow all plant safety rules.
• Follow all lab safety rules.
• Must have no special sensitivity to Solvents, VOC, Hydrocarbon/CFC Propellent, Fragrances etc.
• Should be familiar with handling corrosive, oxidative, flammable, and explosive chemicals.

EDUCATION:

• B.S. degree in related scientific field or equivalent experience in food, drug, or cosmetic industry.