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Date: 04/08/2025

Quality Control Analysts

Conduct tests to determine quality of raw materials, bulk intermediate and finished products. May conduct stability sample tests.

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  • Prepare or review required method transfer documentation including technical transfer protocols or reports.
  • Identify and troubleshoot equipment problems.
  • Complete documentation needed to support testing procedures, including data capture forms, equipment logbooks, or inventory forms.
  • Participate in internal assessments and audits as required.
  • Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory equipment.
  • Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory equipment.
  • Ensure that lab cleanliness and safety standards are maintained.
  • Perform validations or transfers of analytical methods in accordance with applicable policies or guidelines.
  • Evaluate analytical methods and procedures to determine how they might be improved.
  • Write technical reports or documentation, such as deviation reports, testing protocols, and trend analyses.
  • Identify quality problems and recommend solutions.
  • Compile laboratory test data and perform appropriate analyses.
  • Participate in out-of-specification and failure investigations and recommend corrective actions.
  • Train other analysts to perform laboratory procedures and assays.
  • Serve as a technical liaison between quality control and other departments, vendors, or contractors.
  • Conduct routine and non-routine analyses of in-process materials, raw materials, environmental samples, finished goods, or stability samples.
  • Interpret test results, compare them to established specifications and control limits, and make recommendations on appropriateness of data for release.
  • Coordinate testing with contract laboratories and vendors.
  • Evaluate new technologies and methods to make recommendations regarding their use.
  • Review data from contract laboratories to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
  • Receive and inspect raw materials.
  • Perform visual inspections of finished products.
  • Develop and qualify new testing methods.
  • Supply quality control data necessary for regulatory submissions.
  • Investigate or report questionable test results.
  • Monitor testing procedures to ensure that all tests are performed according to established item specifications, standard test methods, or protocols.
  • Write or revise standard quality control operating procedures.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Prepare or review required method transfer documentation including technical transfer protocols or reports.
  • Identify and troubleshoot equipment problems.
  • Complete documentation needed to support testing procedures, including data capture forms, equipment logbooks, or inventory forms.
  • Participate in internal assessments and audits as required.
  • Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory equipment.
  • Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory equipment.
  • Ensure that lab cleanliness and safety standards are maintained.
  • Perform validations or transfers of analytical methods in accordance with applicable policies or guidelines.
  • Evaluate analytical methods and procedures to determine how they might be improved.
  • Write technical reports or documentation, such as deviation reports, testing protocols, and trend analyses.
  • Identify quality problems and recommend solutions.
  • Compile laboratory test data and perform appropriate analyses.
  • Participate in out-of-specification and failure investigations and recommend corrective actions.
  • Train other analysts to perform laboratory procedures and assays.
  • Serve as a technical liaison between quality control and other departments, vendors, or contractors.
  • Conduct routine and non-routine analyses of in-process materials, raw materials, environmental samples, finished goods, or stability samples.
  • Interpret test results, compare them to established specifications and control limits, and make recommendations on appropriateness of data for release.
  • Coordinate testing with contract laboratories and vendors.
  • Evaluate new technologies and methods to make recommendations regarding their use.
  • Review data from contract laboratories to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
  • Receive and inspect raw materials.
  • Perform visual inspections of finished products.
  • Develop and qualify new testing methods.
  • Supply quality control data necessary for regulatory submissions.
  • Investigate or report questionable test results.
  • Monitor testing procedures to ensure that all tests are performed according to established item specifications, standard test methods, or protocols.
  • Write or revise standard quality control operating procedures.

Skills

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
5
Graphic Literacy
4

Abilities

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

Knowledge

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $64,110
    $44,480
    $36,460
    Ohio
    US
    $100,550
    $58,350
    $36,650
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $31
    $21
    $18
    Ohio
    US
    $48
    $28
    $18

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 1,370
  • Yearly Projected Openings 170

Typical Education

Personality

Conventional: People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation

Tools

  • Autosamplers
  • Dynamometers
  • Flowmeters
  • Fluorescent microscopes
  • Foam tapes
  • Force or torque sensors
  • Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
  • Gas chromatographs
  • Gel boxes
  • Gel documentation systems
  • Hardness testers
  • Laser fax machine
  • Level meter
  • Liquid chromatographs
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Metal testing instruments
  • Microfilm processors
  • Micrometers
  • Moisture meters
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Personal computers
  • Photocopiers
  • Psychrometers
  • Spectrometers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Stroboscopes
  • Surface gauge
  • Tachometers
  • Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
  • Tension testers
  • Thickness measuring devices
  • Torque wrenches
  • Ultrasonic disintegrators
  • Ultrasonic examination equipment
  • Vibration testers
  • Voltage or current meters
  • Water samplers
  • pH meters

Technology

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Cloud-based data access and sharing software
  • Content workflow software
  • Data base management system software
  • Data base reporting software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Desktop communications software
  • Development environment software
  • Document management software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Enterprise application integration software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Internet browser software
  • Office suite software
  • Operating system software
  • Presentation software
  • Process mapping and design software
  • Program testing software
  • Project management software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Transaction server software
  • Web platform development software
  • Word processing software

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