Sample Services Supervisor

MANE is a 5th generation French family-owned business known for innovation and progress in the world of Flavor and Fragrance. As sensation enthusiasts, we strive to provide exceptional moments in people’s daily lives through the timeless flavors and fragrances we create. With our passion, creativity, and innovation, “We capture what moves”.

We have an immediate opportunity for a Sample Services Supervisor to join our team at our Development Center in Lebanon, OH. The Sample Services Supervisor oversees and provides direction to employees to ensure product quality, timeliness and safety standards are adhered to. Interacts with R&D, Shipping and Receiving, Maintenance, Management, QC, and others as necessary.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Organize, prioritize, and schedule the daily activities of the Sample Lab and Pilot Plant.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve routine operational issues including weighing discrepancies/overweighs, batch locks or system holds, inventory discrepancies and adjustments, processing errors, documentation issues, and other workflow or system-related exceptions.
• Facilitate liquid compounding, spray drying, and all technology makes as assigned by the needs of the sample lab & pilot plant.
• Facilitate and communicate expected timelines of sample completion and/or delays to appropriate parties within the organization.
• Participate in and help drive continuous improvement initiatives and help drive change in automation implementation.
• Adhere to inventory, food safety/quality, DOT/IATA, and safety policies.
• Ensure compliance with process changes.
• Provide example of leadership to the Sample Lab & Pilot Plant through demonstrating and expecting compliance of best practices throughout the lab.
• Be able to train and provide guidance to technicians to enable them to do their jobs effectively.
• Identify issues with problem formulas and/or instructions and communicate these to the formulating chemist.
• Other duties as assigned by management
• Supervise all aspects of employees/direct reports including attendance, performance and disciplinary actions, general guidance. Help to mentor and grow employees by providing guidance and individual meeting sessions as well as team meetings.
• Be able to train and provide guidance to process operators enabling them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to safely handle a wide variety of flavor compounds and chemicals in daily work while abiding by General Laboratory Health and Safety Requirements. Which states: “Nearly all chemicals and activities employing chemicals have the potential to be hazardous. In all circumstances, materials must be handled with the assumption that they are hazardous. A hazardous chemical is one which is generally classified as posing a health and/or physical hazard.”
• Able to adapt to odorous raw materials and finished goods with varying degrees of intensity and odors.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• High School diploma required; some college preferred
• Two to five years of experience in flavor compounding, spray drying, and/or capsule production desired

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.
• Ability to sit, stand, stoop, bend for duration of work hours.

MANE offers industry leading benefits including a generous PTO plan. Additional benefits include paid holidays, annual year-end shutdown, annual and bi-weekly 401(k) contributions, tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, employee assistance programs and many more. MANE is known for having a culture that focuses on our employees and their well-being. See for yourself why our employees love working at MANE!

MANE is an equal opportunity employer.