Technical Manager

We are seeking an experienced Technical Manager for a radiocarbon (Carbon-14) and Isotopic Laboratory to provide technical leadership across laboratory operations and service delivery. This role will act as the technical authority for geochemical and isotopic analytical services with a strong emphasis on radiocarbon stable isotopes and gas chromatography (GC) analytical techniques. 
 
The successful candidate provides leadership to the operations team on technical issues relating to existing methods and services and heads initiatives to improve technical and quality performance and increase throughput.  This candidate will also work closely with the development group supporting the validation and scale-up of new services while ensuring robust compliant and high-quality routine laboratory operations. Experience in stable isotope analysis (e.g. IRMS GC-IRMS) is highly desirable. 
 
Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the subject matter expert in geochemistry and analytical techniques. 
• Support the transition of services from R&D to routine operations. 
• Partner with laboratory operations leadership to ensure efficient workflows. 
• Provide technical oversight to ensure data quality and reliability. 
• Troubleshoot complex analytical challenges particularly GC systems. 
• Lead development and optimization of GC methods. 
• Support development of isotope techniques (GC-IRMS EA-IRMS) where applicable. 
• Collaborate with product development teams to launch new services. 
• Ensure compliance with ISO/IEC 17025 and quality systems. 
• Mentor and train laboratory staff. 
• Support Production during high season 

Qualifications :

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Geochemistry Chemistry or related field. 
• 812 years of experience in analytical laboratories 
• Strong experience with GC instrumentation (GC-FID GC-MS etc.) 
• Experience in R&D to production method transfer 
• Experience with isotope techniques is a plus 
• Knowledge of ISO/IEC 17025 environment 

Key Competencies 

• Technical leadership 
• Problem-solving skills 
• Cross-functional collaboration 
• Strong communication 

Additional Information :

SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such we recruit hire train and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age marital status sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetics status as a protected veteran or any other characteristics protected by law.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required.

This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties responsibilities or requirements but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts the companys rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time