Lab Controls Assistant Manager

1 month ago


Garland, United States Daisy Brand Full time

Lab Controls Assistant Manager

Job Details

Job Location

Garland - Garland, TX

Description

The Lab Controls Assistant Manager is responsible for assisting the Laboratory Controls Manager (LCM) with managing a dairy research lab.

Principal Duties:

+ Assisting LCM in ensuring that goals and strategies for scientific researchers are met, and acting as liaison between the lab and production

+ Conferring with scientists to plan/direct research efforts

+ Qualifying and validating new analytical equipment

+ Overseeing inventory and ensuring that lab is stocked with functioning equipment and supplies

+ Scheduling preventative maintenance of scientific equipment

+ Tracking and maintaining data and metrics associated with culture performance to ensure product targets are achieved

+ Administering budgets and reviewing/approving purchases; and

+ Ensuring LCMs lab policies and procedures are implemented/followed to ensure regulatory/safety standards are met

Schedule and Travel:

Travel to suppliers and collaborators in TX, WI, OH, Denmark, and France will be required 10% of the time.

Qualifications:

+ U.S. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Food (Dairy) Engineering or Food (Dairy) Science degree is required

+ Also required is one (1) year of experience in:

+ Dairy microbiology to produce cultured dairy products using typical unit operations, including separation, pasteurization, homogenization, membrane filtration, fermentation, and culture handling

+ Adhering to quality control protocols for production of sanitary bench-top and pilot samples

+ Using state of the art techniques to produce cultured dairy products with unique benefits for flavor, texture, and human health with complex microbial communities, using metagenomic analyses, molecular microbiology techniques, including: dPCR, RT-qPCR, amplicon sequencing, metabolomics, and in silico microbiology

+ Designing experiments, isolation procedures, and biochemical and molecular identification methods to study prebiotics, probiotics (mono and co-culture) and postbiotics

+ Conducting and overseeing biotics characterization by challenge studies, antibiotic resistance assessments, tolerance assays, and employing analytical chemistry techniques

+ Screening for potential health effects through mammalian in vitro cell culture techniques (intestinal and monocytic cell lines), including transport studies, evaluation of membrane barrier, microbial adhesion-invasion mechanisms, and gene expression analyses.

Company Overview

For five generations spanning over a century, Daisy Brand has been a family-owned company committed to providing the freshest, most wholesome dairy products. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with manufacturing facilities in Garland, Texas (1998), Casa Grande, Arizona (2008), and Wooster, Ohio (2015).

Daisy is the market leader in two billion-dollar categories, sour cream and cottage cheese, and generates over half a billion in revenues annually. Daisy Sour Cream represents 1 out of every 2 sour cream purchases in the United States and is the largest sour cream brand in food service, military, and club. It is recognized by consumers for A Dollop of Daisy, a tagline that put this once small brand on the map. Daisy Cottage Cheese is Americas #1 cottage cheese brand and continues to bring new consumers into the category with its innovative single serve packaging and consistent high quality. Daisy recently expanded into a new category with the launch of two dip products and is in the process of expanding distribution.

Daisy's core values, Clean and Trust, resonate in all aspects of our business operations. In 2008, the Foundation for Financial Service Professionals awarded Daisy the prestigious American Business Ethics award.

While maintaining a strong culture of curious and innovative problem-solvers, Daisy Brand has more than doubled employment over the last 15 years and is continuing to grow. Currently, we are proud to employ over 650 full-time staff across more than 25 states throughout the United States.

At Daisy Brand, we value longevity and aim to foster a working environment where employees can envision a long-term career. Companywide, the average employee tenure stands at over seven years. Our corporate office and sales team each boast an average tenure exceeding eleven years, while our manufacturing facilities also demonstrate strong employee retention with tenures averaging over seven years.

Daisy Brand offers an industry leading benefits package that includes:

+ A no-deductible, $0 premium option for employee-only health coverage.

+ 401(k) with 50% company match on first 8% of earnings you contribute.

+ Safe harbor and profit-sharing company contributions to 401(k).

+ Company paid short- and long-term disability coverage.

+ Company paid 2X annual salary life and AD&D insurance.

+ 4 weeks annual paid time off.

+ 20 floating holiday hours and 6 company paid holidays.

+ Extra time off for volunteering.

+ Tuition reimbursement.

+ Fitness membership reimbursement.

+ And more

Daisy Brand is a nicotine-free company. Daisy Brand is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans and disabled encouraged to apply .



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