Team Leader-Laboratory-Footwear

Lab Team Leader- Onsite

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world's top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Lab Team Leader to join our Softlines team in Bentonville, AR.

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in the ATIC Industry for Softlines/Footwear.

Intertek's Softlines Testing services enable retailers, brands and manufacturers of textiles, apparel, fashion accessories, footwear and home textiles to ensure the safety and quality of their products.

Intertek performs softlines testing on items ranging from fabric samples to finished products, including apparel and footwear for children and adults (pajamas, sweaters, jeans, outerwear) and home furnishings (bedding, curtains, furniture fabric, rugs).

We help ensure our customers meet consumer demand for high quality, minimize reputational risk, reduce environmental impacts and protect the interests of retailers, brands, textile manufacturers and consumer safety.

Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world.

We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide.

Our Purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

What are we looking for?

The Lab Team Leader responsible for managing the testing activities in the footwear laboratory and as Team Leader co-ordinate testing activities to meet the service requirements of the laboratory.

Shift/Schedule: 8 am to 5 pm local time, Mon to Fri

Salary & Benefits Information

The base wage or salary range for this position is $60 to 65 K.

Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.

What you'll do:


* perform physical, color fastness related testing on footwear products and its components


* plan, execute testing activities with fellow technicians in the lab operations


* monitor the workload and schedule tasks with other team members in the lab operations to meet the service requirements


* train lab technicians on test methods, standard operating procedures and help them to improve their performance and consistency.

Also, maintain an awareness of the abilities and personality of each technician


* redirect any questionable results and ensure appropriateness of the results to the product tested, before it is delivered out of the lab


* perform root cause analysis, initiate corrective and preventive actions to help run the operation at highest quality standards


* Implement and foll...