The posting
This role is for a position at WISEcode labs, WISEcode's sister company and an independent third party testing lab.
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WISEcode Labs, formerly Beaconpoint Labs, was built out of necessity.
The laboratory was created to support its sister company WISEcode and its Food Genome Project™, an ambitious effort to build a comprehensive food and ingredient intelligence platform. In pursuing that goal, it became clear that the required testing capabilities simply did not exist. No laboratory could reliably deliver the breadth, depth, speed, and transparency needed to analyze thousands of ingredients across hundreds of analytes with confidence. Rather than compromise, the lab was built to solve that problem properly.
WISEcode Labs is an independent third-party testing laboratory serving food, beverage, dietary supplement, ingredient, and adjacent consumer-health companies. The lab combines advanced analytical instrumentation, rigorous method development, microbiology and chemistry expertise, and a high-touch service model designed for customers with complex and recurring testing needs.
WISEcode Labs is differentiated by its unwavering focus on food safety and nutrition testing and becoming a primary testing partner to key customers, owing to its rapid response time and direct access to scientific leaders, customized solutions, and defensible data.
Effective August 25th 2026, the company unified its brand with its sister company under a single name: WISEcode Labs. The next phase is to scale this platform without losing the quality, speed, independence, confidentiality, and accountability on which the business was built to be the preferred testing & scientific partner for the food industry and WISEcode’s mission towards food transparency.
Position Summary
Key Responsibilities
- Own the quality management system and quality manual. Maintain the annual quality calendar, a schedule of recurring QMS activities such as internal audits, management reviews, proficiency testing, calibrations, and accreditation body visits. Maintain a tracker for CAPAs, audit findings, and other quality actions that records the owner, due date, and evidence of completion for each item.
- Serve as the primary contact with the accreditation body. Prepare for surveillance and reassessment visits, coordinate scope extensions, respond to findings with root cause and evidence, and track them through closure on time.
- Control the use of the accreditation symbol and claims of accreditation on reports, quotations, the website, and marketing materials, so that accredited and non-accredited results are clearly distinguished.
- Maintain document control for the quality manual, SOPs, forms, and controlled external documents (such as published standards and reference methods), and control of quality and technical records, including retention, protection, and retrieval.
- Maintain the multi-year internal audit schedule, completing at least one internal audit risk assessment annually to keep it current and compliant. Conduct internal audits as scheduled and arrange independent auditing of the QA function itself.
- Maintain the risk and customer complaint registers and drive improvement actions. Prepare the quarterly management review, record decisions, and follow actions to completion.
- Lead the process for deviations, out-of-specification results, nonconforming work, and CAPA. Ensure documented containment, impact assessment on previously issued results, customer notification and recall of reports where required, root-cause investigation, and effectiveness checks before closure.
- Own the complaints process: acknowledge, investigate impartially, respond to the complainant, and trend complaints for systemic causes. Technical leaders remain responsible for scientific conclusions.
- With Lab manager, maintain competence requirements, training, supervision, and written authorizations for each method, data review, and report release. No one performs or authorizes work outside documented competence.
- Oversee the calibration, verification, and maintenance program, metrological traceability of measurement results, and control of reference standards, certified reference materials, and reagents. Laboratory owners perform the work and provide evidence.
- Verify that facilities and environmental conditions are monitored and recorded where they affect results.
- Approve and monitor suppliers and subcontracted laboratories against documented criteria, including their accreditation status and scope, and ensure customers are informed of subcontracted work.
- Maintain a proficiency testing and interlaboratory comparison plan that covers the accredited scope at the frequency required by the accreditation body. Order proficiency testing samples for the existing scope and for methods added through scope expansion, review results, and investigate unsatisfactory performance.
- Maintain internal quality control requirements (blanks, spikes, duplicates, check standards, control charts) and review trends to detect drift before it affects reported results.
- Require that intended use, matrices, analytes, method source, customer requirements, reporting limits, and accreditation status are defined before development starts.
- Require an approved validation or verification plan with predefined acceptance criteria. Review evidence for selectivity, accuracy or recovery, precision, calibration, LOD and LOQ, matrix effects, carryover, and robustness as relevant, for standard, modified, and laboratory-developed methods.
- Maintain a method readiness checklist and formal release record covering SOPs, QC criteria, equipment, competency, capacity, permitted accreditation claims, and post-launch monitoring. Route material changes through change control.
- Ensure technical records allow each result to be traced and repeated, and that data integrity controls (access, audit trails, review of changes) are effective in instruments and in the LIMS.
- Own the report release procedure and signatory authorization matrix. Ensure reports contain the required information, that amended reports are clearly identified, and that trained backup signatories prevent dependence on one person.
- Maintain risk-based data review procedures and reviewer qualifications. Perform selected review or qualified backup within documented authorization; routine review remains with designated technical reviewers.
- Prepare, review, and issue nutrition facts labels using Panelgea, ensuring label values are traceable to approved test results.
- Develop working proficiency in the certificate of analysis (COA) reporting workflow, which closely parallels label issuance, and support COA review and release as needed.
- Train and qualify backup personnel for label issuance so the workflow does not depend on one or two people.
- Oversee and maintain EH&S policies, procedures, and training, keeping them current with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Serve as the point of contact for the building and facility-related matters.
- Coordinate safety inspections, incident documentation, corrective actions, and safety training with Operations and designated EH&S support.
- Maintain the sanitation schedule and verification records. Supervisors assign and oversee cleaning; QA audits adherence and escalates gaps.
Quality, authority, and independence
Candidate Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, microbiology, food science, or a related scientific discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
- At least five years of laboratory quality experience, including managing and coordinating a QMS, audits and accreditation activities.
- Hands-on experience in an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratory, including accreditation body assessments, document control, internal audits, CAPA, proficiency testing, competency records, and management review.
- Working knowledge of method validation and verification, measurement uncertainty, metrological traceability, laboratory QC, and data integrity principles across chemistry and microbiology.
- Strong organization, written communication, investigation, and cross-functional leadership skills, with the judgment to hold a quality position under commercial pressure.
- ISO/IEC 17025 internal auditor or lead assessor training; ASQ certification (CQA, CMQ/OE) or equivalent.
- Experience with LIMS (QBench preferred) and digital quality workflows; experience with scope expansion for new techniques such as ICP-MS or LC-MS/MS.
- Experience issuing nutrition labels (Panelgea preferred) and COA reporting; experience managing an EH&S program.
